HOI4 Music Project Allies

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Author: Let's Roleplay

Last revision: 25 Feb at 16:12 UTC (7)

File size: 2.07 GB

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All my Hearts of Iron IV music mods: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197980988903/myworkshopfiles/

This is the Allies music mod which includes the UK, France, Australia, Canada, Poland, British Raj, Greece, Netherlands, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Norway, South Africa, Ethiopia, Sweden, New Zealand, Iraq, Turkey, Denmark, and new to my music mods are commercials from the time frame, which play for all English speaking nations. Samples of the music are above.

In total there are 657 songs with this mod. Broken down it works out to be 210 UK, 114 French, 60 Allies (once you join or start in the Commonwealth), 50 Australian, 35 Indian, 31 Greek, 24 Polish, 22 Canadian, 21 Dutch, 19 Iranian, 16 Commercials, 13 Saudi Arabian (for all Arabic speaking nations), 9 South African, 8 New Zealander, 8 Norwegian, 5 Ethiopian, 4 Swedish, 4 Turkish, 2 Iraqi, and 2 Danish songs.

The mod is tailored to play music depending on your war score. If you are losing the war, sadder, more depressing songs will play, whereas winning will have in general more uplifting or patriotic music. To get more music, join one of the main factions – Allies, Axis, or Comintern. You could also get my General Music Mod, which is about classical music.

Mixing this mod with my European Axis mod will share more music across the mods, since there were still many French bands making music even while being occupied by Germany. The German player can now hear these French songs that were made during the occupation 1940-1944. If you play as Vichy France, you will get your national Anthem, despite this mod not being for Axis nations.

I spent a lot of time searching for music by Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African singers or bands in the time period, but none existed that I could find. I take it that for English speaking nations, all the music that you would hear on the radio at the time, or who sold records, were all done in the USA and England. This doesn’t mean that there wasn’t folk songs or military music, to which I have added for these other nations. If there are any folk songs before 1949 that I am unaware of, please let me know!

These songs are meant to immerse the player into the feel, theme, and setting with the music that was played at the time. Military music both played by military bands and music from movies, as well as video games have a strong presence here too. Civilian music dominates during peace time, and then when at war, historical military music, or music created for since the war to fit that nation and theme then dominate.

The Hoi4 Music Project will have nearly 3000 songs with originals from 1913 up to the end of the game time of 1948. Many songs will be from the 30s and 40s, but many songs will also be made for the period in question such as from Band of Brothers, or movies like Dunkirk. The entire collection of music has been gathered together for nearly all of the combatants in World War II. Now with Civilization music! From Civilization 3 to 6 now in all of my music mods.

Now, all of my individual music mods have been released! The HOI4 Music Project consists of: East Asian Music, General Music, European Axis Music, Allies Music, Latin Nations Music, Comintern Music, and USA Music mods. The final plan is to put them all together into one massive music mod! This latter idea does not have a date set, since as of right now it was time consuming enough to create these seven mods as it was. It will get done when it will get done!

All music is set to play for their proper dates, so if a song historically came out in 1941, it will not play until then for the nation/language it was created in. Same languages share civilian music amongst each other, while military music is specific for that nation. The exception to this would be US music only being shared with Canada.

This mod is around 1.85 GB, so make sure you have space. All together, the HOI4 Music Project will be over 6 GB. So it has been broken up into specific regions and alliances such as the UK, Commonwealth, and France all in one. I originally began gathering music back in 2004, and in early 2018 I made it my mission to gather as many as I could to fit together into the ultimate music mod. In total, this was such an ambitious project, that it took me months to gather, and hammer out the bugs I’ve run into.

Let me know if there is an error, like if a song doesn’t play, or has the wrong title attached to it. I’ve done my best to mod and research the songs that are added, to get everything done correctly but something’s may have slipped past.

If anyone feels that there is an essential song missing, please let me know. I am open to suggestions.

Disclaimer: This mod cannot be used in YouTube videos since you would get a lot of hits by claims, and is meant for personal use only.