Basic States 3
This is my first mod. I made it due to other states mods either lacking states I wanted, having too many states which were ultimately useless, or simply not being updated. The reason it is titled Basic States 3 is due to me making two other versions of this mod, before deciding to add more states, and before uploading to Steam. I have also incorporated mengele a go go’s "Historical German GFX" mod into this one for historical and flavor aspects, and for the gfx files I take no credit and upon request by the author I shall remove them, but given in his description he states, "I take zero credit for the actual GFX work done here. This is simply a collage of others work meant for vanilla Hearts of Iron IV with Ironman Compatibility." I feel it is okay to merge my mod with his. That being said anyone is welcome to use my edited history, localisation, and map, files. I have about 3000 hours on this game and I welcome anyone to use my mod within theirs should they choose.
Also, my states are made up by existing provinces within the game, therefore they exist in the sense of "mostly accurate". Please do not comment that states are not perfectly accurate as I already realize this and have no desire to change the actual provinces in game. Example: "Eupen-Malmedy extends too far into Belgium!" or "New Cameroon is too big!" or "South Bucovina is more square!" I know and am aware of these inaccuracies, but to correct them I would have to change the game’s provinces (the small territories that each state is made up of) which i neither know how to do or desire to learn. Furthermore, I have also run into issues with coding events to accommodate the states I have added. To counteract this, I have changed the cores of some countries to enable returning this territory to them through the occupied territory tab, rather than by event which I don’t know how to do. Example: Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Croatia have cores on many parts of Yugoslavia to represent historical occupation/territory rather than actual ethnic populations. This way, rather than having a weird border gore looking Yugoslavia should Germany do "Fate of Yugoslavia" and choose to create the puppet/awarded territories, the German player should instead choose the "Annex all of Yugoslavia" option when presented the decision, then return the newly occupied territory to the other powers it wishes to have occupy them.
I will also state this is a Central Powers/Axis centric mod as I find these countries are most fun to play as. I have also categorized this mod as Alt-History to represent those core changes as well as the fact that I did change the state of "Northern Ireland" to "Ulster" and edited its borders to encompass all of the Ulster counties. I have also edited the borders of some base game states to reflect better historic regions and minimize border gore. I have mainly made this mod for my own use so therefore I will not make any drastic changes to it. However, if you think of a state that should be added please let me know and I will strongly consider/most likely add it. With this mod you can: Remake the borders of the German Empire (Including Colonies), Austria-Hungary, Kingdom of Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Greater Bulgaria, Sardinia-Piedmont Italian territories, More historically accurate axis occupied Europe, and much more!
List of added states:
Eupen-Malmedy
North Schleswig (Nordschleswig)
Nancy
Sedan
Waals-Luxemburg
Limburg
South Bucovina
Nis
Nice
West Montenegro (Budva)
West Slovenia
East Slovenia
Central Slovenia
Trieste
Burgenland
Trentino
East Bialystok
Oswiecim
East Yemen
Jordan Desert
Syrian Desert
West Togoland
West Cameroon
New Cameroon
Kaiser-Wilhelmsland
Bougainville Island
East Samoa
Arabian Gulf Coast
Kars
West Macedonia
Thessaloniki
North Dobrudja
South Dalmatia
Update 1.0.1:
Croatian Coast
Friuli
Update 1.0.2:
West Virginia
Vermont
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut-Rhode Island
French Switzerland
Italian Switzerland
Eastern Italian Switzerland
Suez Canal
East Crete
Tierra del Fuego
West Tierra del Fuego
Orange Free State
Basutoland
Swaziland
Eastern Cape
Northern Cape
North West
Mpumalanga
Victoria-Manicaland
Matabeleland
Roussillon
South Roussillon
East Karjala
States to be added:
Lite America Overhaul
Qing Borders
Finnmark
States I may change upon request:
Shift borders of German and Dutch states to match the Rhein
States waiting on additional information:
Kursk
French-Flanders
I also recommend playing this mod with State Transfer Tool or Toolpack in case I missed any events that may mess with states and borders, or to remove any of the cores I added should you so choose.
