Dreams of Poland (Early Access)

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Hey everyone, I have some really big news, both good and bad. I’ll start with the bad news first: DoP is being placed on perpetual hold. We are ending further development on it for now (hold that thought, I will circle back to this). The reason for it is another mod was brought to my attention that has been in development since 2018, Regnum Poloniae, created by Eff1o and his team, which has much of the same content as DoP currently has and content that we had planned for it. This is the case to a very specific degree, they have many of the same monarchs that are in DoP, including a Japanese one, plus more. They also have plans to add in paths for the Sanation Government and other options. So, I see no reason to compete, and we both agreed to "merge" our mods in a way. Regnum Poloniae will be the main focus, as it has a ridiculous amount of content already, with more on the way. There is only one problem: it is currently only in Polish, with no English localisation yet.

Which brings us around to the good news. DoP isn’t really dead. The goals we had for this mod are the exact same as those of the Regnum Poloniae, so at the end of the day, we will get a mod very similar to DoP, but even better. English localization will be added eventually in the future (hopefully soon), and then I think you will see why I’m making this choice. Myself and maybe some of the other team members will be assisting the Regnum Poloniae team to help finish their mod (which is already released on the workshop). In the meantime, I will continue to support DoP in the sense that this early access version will be updated to the newest HoI4 game versions, but no new content will be added after Sunday. However, in case something happens with Regnum Poloniae, I will be keeping DoP on the workshop and I will be holding onto all of the mod files so that we could resume work on it if we ever need to.

So, what’s next for our development team? As I said, some of us will be helping with Regnum Poloniae when we can (on a volunteer basis). But I will begin production of the mod we had planned for after DoP would be finished: Austria. So yeah, Dreams of Austria will be where I’m focusing the majority of my attention. If you like DWRV and DoP, it will be in a similar vein to them, with an expansive focus tree and many options for the player to go down. Thank you all for your continued support!

Here is a link to Regnum Poloniae: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1524072869
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Sick of how weak and bland Poland is in vanilla? Want a thicc focus tree with plenty of new and exciting options? Then Dreams of Poland might be for you! Unlike my previous mods, this one has a historical start, but like my other mods, there are plenty of alternate history options for you to play through. You may be wondering why this is "early access" and the simple reason is because the mod is only about 33% to 50% completed. Don’t let that scare you off though, all the content that is being released right now has been playtested and is fully localized. The only thing that’s missing is a bit of polish concerning national focus icons and news events, which I plan to add in for the existing content over the next two weeks.

As new paths are completed, playtested, and localized, they will be released with this mod until I deem the mod complete, in which case this one will be deleted and the new, full mod will be released. I’m hoping to have everything finished by the end of 2020, but who the hell knows with this year.

All in all, my goal was ultimately to make Poland far more fun to play and to do it proper justice. Poland can be so much more than just a speed bump for the Germans.

-A Sanation government tree with 4 sub paths (Sanation-Left, Sanation-Right, The Castle, and a Castle and Sanation-Right coalition) which in turn have two other sub paths to choose from, one where you form the Intermarium and one where you follow the historical timeline and create the Camp of National Unity and side with the Allies.

-A Kingdom of Poland tree with 7 possible options for monarchs with the choice of either an absolute monarchy or constitutional monarchy for each monarch option. Additionally, each monarch has a sub-tree of ~12 focuses that makes every monarch stand out from the rest (the exception being the two Polish monarch options who share a sub-tree).

-A far more accurate starting situation for the Polish Army, which was absolutely massive. It is not perfectly accurate, as I had serious balancing concerns. For example, the Poles’ standing army in 1936 was roughly ~900,000 strong with about 1 million in reserve, which would be insanely OP to start with in HoI4.

-Accurate starting techs.

-Appropriate national spirits to provide buffs and debuffs that imitate the situation for Poland in 1936.

-11 current country leaders options

-A greatly expanded roster of ministers and high command

-Expanded roster of generals, field marshals, and admirals, all of which have unique portraits.

-Two new traits for generals that give bonuses to artillery, similar to the infantry leader and cavalry leader traits.

-A colonization tree that is available to certain paths that allows you to establish colonies that Poland historically tried, but failed, to do.

-Multiple Polonization decisions that will give you cores on certain territories that Poland (at the time) viewed as theirs, including some German states, Lithuania, and more.

-A semi-combined tree for the Democratic and Communist paths. There will be three Democratic sub-trees and two Communist sub-trees.

-A Fascist tree with two sub-trees.

-A Military Junta tree led by the Blue General, Jozef Haller.

-At least 8 more country leaders (3 democratic, 2 communist, 1 non-aligned, 2 fascist)

-AI strategies (currently they will be pretty braindead and will choose focuses randomly).

-A "Hard" mode that will change several things about the mod, including giving the Soviets the option to invade Poland right after Germany does on Historical, if the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is signed. This Hard mode will be completely optional and is meant to provide a challenge for experienced players.

-This mod should not need any DLC to function, but you will not get the Polish skins unless you have the relevant DLC.

-Mods that add new countries to the game will likely not be compatible with DoP. This includes Dreams of a White Russian Victory and Road to 56.

– As stated above, the AI hasn’t been developed and I had to remove the one that came with the Poland DLC. If you play using this mod, you should play as Poland. If you let the AI control them, the AI will just as likely yeet itself off a cliff as conquer the entire world. That may be fun for you, but I’m giving fair warning.

-A huge thanks to Kaiserreich and The Fallen Eagle for the use of their art assets, especially concerning national focus icons.

-Thanks to Mapno for provided such a wonderful art repository for all modders to use.