Faction Shuffler
FACTION SHUFFLER
Want to add some randomly generated variety to your games? This mod might be for you! Faction Shuffler takes twelve countries (America, Brazil, Spain, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, India, China, and Japan) and randomly groups them into four teams, with each team corresponding to one of the four ideologies. Each team also has their own tech sharing group that can be joined by new members. You will also get three options pertaining to the puppets of America, Britain, and Japan; those options being to release them as independent nations, convert them to their overlord’s new ideology, or to just leave them as they are. And if that still isn’t enough, I have also included a "make South America interesting" button, which shuffles Argentina, Mexico, United Central America, and Gran Colombia into the factions (United Central America and Gran Colombia will only form if you have WTT, but if you don’t, Colombia and Guatemala will gain the cores on all the states they would have had anyway). Now has the option to randomly sort all countries into a faction, but this will cause some lag temporarily.
If you wanted all the other changes without having all these countries just lumped into factions, there is an option for removing all members from the factions except for the leader of the faction.
However, this by itself can lead to some complications with the flow of the game, so I have also modified the focus trees so that stuff can still happen.
Here’s a list of notable changes:
Italy:
"Triumph in Africa" can now be taken if both Italy and Ethiopia are democratic. If Italy is democratic, it also adds Ethiopia to the democratic team in addition to the usual bonuses.
"Pact of Steel" bypasses if Italy is in a faction, but not the faction leader
"Italy First" bypasses if Italy is the faction leader
Britain:
"Coerce Spain" and "Coerce Greece" boosts Britain’s ideology in Spain, before it would boost democratic no matter what (For some reason, "Coerce Turkey" was already made to do this)
"Commonwealth Ties" Changes the opinion modifier to match Britain’s ideology. This is simply a flavor change.
"Influence China" has the same changes as "Coerce Spain," but if Britain is communist and WTT is enabled, it removes 5 Political Support Points from China
The Focuses that give wargoals on minors can now be done if Britain is Communist or Fascist
Added a focus that gives a wargoal on Luxembourg
France:
"Go With Britain" Was removed
Yugoslavia:
"Mutual Economic Assistance" Now gives the -5% consumer goods factories to all members of the communist faction
Hungary:
The "Renew the Rome Protocols" Branch has been deleted except for "Protect Austria"
"Trade Deal With Germany" has been renamed "Trade Deal With the Fascists" and gives a trade bonus modifer to all members of the fascist faction
"Protect Austria" now requires "Trade Deal With the Fascists" and can not be taken if Germany is in the fascist faction
USA:
"Manifest Destiny" no longer requires the US to be democratic
"Preemptive Intervention" only give 50 political power if South America has been shuffled, otherwise works like normal. If the US is neutral and South America has not been shuffled, the US will get a wargoal on a random American nation
Four focuses have been added that are available if South America has been shuffled:
"End South American Democracy" gives the US a wargoal on the South American member of the Democratic alliance
"The Red Menace" gives the US a wargoal on the South American member of the Communist alliance
"Crush South American Nationalism" gives the US a wargoal on the South American member of the Fascist alliance
"Expand to South America" gives the US a wargoal on the South American member of the Non-aligned alliance
In all instances, focuses that request admittance to a certain faction have been changed so that the join request event will be sent to the leader of faction of the corresponding ideology. Some AI changes have also been made.
For modders who want to make their mod compatible with this one, I’ve set the global flag faction_shuffle_mod_enabled on start up.
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
