VF’s Brazil

News: made a Patreon-type thingy. If you feel like rewarding my 4 years of work on this bundle of newby-written code, feel free to!

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I’ve been made aware of a minor claim about the presence of a Tesla-type Trojan malware within the files of my mod. Read my full response here. TL;DR: Not the case.

I would also like to remind everyone that my only officially-sponsored versions are the Steam and ModDB ones, and exclusively those uploaded by my accounts. I do not intend on utilizing the Paradox Workshop nor uploading any of my creations to it.

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In Hearts of Iron IV, as in most of her games, Paradox gave little to no attention to "minor" countries, mostly emergent under-the-equator contries.

One of them is Brazil.

Brazil is the 5th largest country and the 8th richest in the world by 2016. It has one of the largest mineral reserves of the planet and was a player in WWII, having its 27,000 strong Expeditionary Forces, the Pisa-based FEB, forcing the surrender of a joint German-Italian Army, lead by General Otto Fretter-Pico, and being the most important army in the breakthrough of the Eastern Section of the Gothic Line and the liberation of the Po Valley, in what would end in the liberation of Ravenna and Bologna from the Axis, which culminated in the dismantling of the Italian Social Republic of 1943.

Between 1930-1945 Brazil suffered one of its most troubled political times and its second biggest economical and industrial boom of the 20st Century. The Vargas regime was marked by a Civil War in 1932 between the major brazilian states, the discovery and nationalization of strategical resources in Brazilian territory, the creation of major government-controlled companies, having most of the countries’ industrial, military and legal bases go through complete renewal and transformation.

Not only it’s was a great time for the country, it was an unstable time of competition between rural oligarchs, liberals, integralists, communists and varguists for the absolute control of the nation and the capacity to set the countries’ future.

In light of this historical setting and the importance that such decades represents of Brazilian history, it’s nothing but fitting for it to have a focus tree, complete with a plethora of decisions, military and civil leaders, ideas, songs, sounds, resources, manufactories, advisors and flavour, in both English and Portuguese.

Here are the major features this mod adds
– An in-depth focus tree, being perfected on since June 2016, coming along with
— The option to enable/disable sounds that play on completion, which include anthems and speeches
— A trade-oriented diplomatic branch
— A scaled and organic industrial branch
— Player-friendly political, military and scientific branches, with the option to restore the Monarchy
— The option to build Brasília
— A technology to fight much better in the Amazon
– Game-setting ideas, with custom GFXs
– Huge decision categories, which range options for
— Kickstarting the National Alcohol Program
— Developing your industry with flavour through the Ministry of Public Works
— Picking a leader among dozens, all of which having custom traits and being part of an contextualized ideological group
– Detailed map with at least 3 major cities per state, with lights on at night
– Carefully written localisation, in order to contextualize the player as much as he likes about the historical setting.
– A plethora of advisors, also with custom GFXs
– Dozens of Army and Navy leaders, with custom GFXs and thought-through skills
– Technology names and GFXs
– Custom designers and manufactorers, also with their own GFX

I’ve been working on this mod since 2016, and appreciate the support the steam and ModDB community have given me so far. I hope that I can continue my work for the forseeable future, in order to guarantee a pleasant experience for anyone trying to play this marvellous south american nation.

Wish you all good fun,
VF

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Saiu e andou. Olhou o céu, os ares, as árvores de Santa Teresa, e se lembrou que, por estas terras, já tinham errado tribos selvagens, das quais um dos chefes se orgulhava de ter no sangue o sangue de dez mil inimigos. Fora há quatro séculos. Olhou de novo o céu, os ares, as árvores de Santa Teresa, as casas, as igrejas; viu os bondes passarem; uma locomotiva apitou; um carro, puxado por uma linda parelha, atravessou-lhe na frente, quando já a entrar do campo… Tinha havido grandes e inúmeras modificações. Que fora aquele parque? Talvez um charco. Tinha havido grandes modificações nos aspectos, na fisionomia da terra, talvez no clima… Esperemos mais, pensou ela; e seguiu serenamente ao encontro de Ricardo Coração dos Outros. – BARRETO, A. H. de Lima. O Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma