Strategy Based Focuses
This mod adds over 320 new focuses to each major country’s National Focus Tree to allow the player to customize their own strategy. There are extensive focuses for every type of unit in the army, navy and air force as well as for economic development and gaining political advantages. Players can choose a broad-based strategy by completing a small number of focuses in each area, or you can specialize by gaining an advantage in one particular area (e.g., aircraft carriers, close air support, factory output, etc.)
The political event focuses (e.g., Rhineland, Marco Polo Bridge, etc.) for each country have been left intact. This mod replaces economic and military focuses (e.g., Four Year Plan, Army Innovations, etc.) with over 320 specialized focuses to allow the player to customize their own strategy.
The time for completing each focus has been cut in half in order to allow the player to make significant progress in a strategy prior to the start of the war.
This mod only works with the 1936 start date.
The focus trees for all major powers and generic countries have been updated by this mod. Minor countries that do not use the generic tree have not been updated.
This modifies the national focus, idea, and AI strategy plan files, so it will not be compatible with other mods that touch those files.
I would appreciate your feedback if you find any of the focus paths to be overpowered or in need of a buff/nerf.
Have fun and enjoy.
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Update 5/10/2019: The cost reduction for government slots under the Political Focus path has been reduced from -0.1 to -0.05 because -0.1 took the cost into the negative, making it impossible to fill in government slots. In addition, each country gets a 0.05 daily ideology boost from each Political Focus completed. Finally, the focus requirements to unlock Erwin Rommel have been removed.
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Update 5/11/2019A: All equipment cost reductions have been reduced from -0.1 to -0.05 per focus because -0.1 was taking the cost to 0.00, which resulted in no equipment being produced.
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Update 5/11/2019B: Localization files have been updated for all major countries.
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Update 5/12/2019A: Focus requirements for government slots have been removed where focus is no longer applicable.
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Update 5/13/2019B: Fixed equipment bonuses for naval bombers.
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Update 6/19/2019: Updated for 1.7.0
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Required DLC:
These DLC should be installed in order to use this item.
Hearts of Iron IV: Waking the Tiger
Hearts of Iron IV: Man the Guns
Hearts of Iron IV: Together for Victory
Hearts of Iron IV: Death or Dishonor
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
