1939 Start Fixed

1939 Start Fixed
Supported game version: 1.19*

This mod aims to improve the largely neglected 1939 Start date.
Many vanilla issues, bugs and oversights are fixed – missing National Ideas, cores, forts, missing resources, bugged equipment, wars happening too early/late, AI causing unhistorical wars, wrong side winning etc…
This mod also tweaks various nations’ progress in their focus trees, their starting units, equipment, tech levels and improves the game balance.

** This mod has minimal effect on 1936 start, but it can cause compatibility issues, if combined with other mods that change history data, change tech tree, or add custom Focus trees. It’s safer to turn it off for 1936 starts.
* Some fixes are not immediately visible, due to being applied by hidden events at the game start.
* Recommended to play with Historical Focus on. NOT ironman compatible.

* Added option to choose starting industry level (vanilla, balanced or historical)
– improved the game balance of 1939 scenario
– reworked OOB of most major countries and some other adjustments to other countries
– many templates now contain Artillery, AA, AT, regimental companies
– many fixes to air & naval units (missing, wrong class or type, incorrect modules etc…)
– fixed many cases of weird or unhistorical AI behavior
– tech level and subdoctrine changes to many countries
– many countries start with Intelligence Agency formed and upgraded
– reworked Focus Tree progress of some countries and tweaked the AI order of further focuses
– added many missing historical fortifications (Germany, France, Italy, Poland, USSR)

– more historical AI focus tree path
– starts with some captured Czech and Austrian equipment
– added missing Austrian generals
– added missing cores to Danzig and Gdynia and a claim on Katowice
– added missing Czechoslovakian sudeten forts
– added missing Military Intelligence idea (+1 operative slot)
– added some missing research bonuses & removed some that should not be there anymore
– increased starting autonomy of Slovakia to Satellite
– historical Anti-Comintern Pact members added

– overally Italy has been nerfed, both in technology and army equipment
– starts with many Alpine Wall forts
– Italy will stop attacking Switzerland in historical games
– fixed Italy having 2 Vittorio Emanuele national spirits
– will stop demanding/occupying Dalmatia and Montenegro in 1939
– added 1940 Medium Airframe tech and Z.1007 Alcione template
– added basic Large Airframe tech and P.50-I template

– Siam will stop joining Axis instead of the Japanese faction
– corrections to some Japan starting units (for ex. replaced some Ha-go tanks with Type 94s)
– greatly reduced the amount of tanks Japan starts with (vanilla = 1400 mediums in 1939)
– many units start with a lot more experience
– added Heavy Airframe techs to Japan and Kawanishi H6K Maritime patrols (+30 planes)
– added missing ‘Chinese Unity’ idea to China (legacy version)
– increased the army size of China and experience of its divisions
– significantly buffed Guangxi Clique in 1939 (it has no units or techs in 1939 vanilla)
– fixed many warlords having no doctrines unlocked

– more focuses completed in 1939 (most notably the Navy & Air)
– added Alpine line of forts („Little Maginot Line“) and a supply node
– reworked cores & compliance in Algeria
– added Stronghold Network building to Alsace-Lorraine
– added missing Chalais-Meudon facility (avionics)
– improved modules on Dunkerque and Richelieu class battleships
– added D.520 fighter template and production (replaced D.520 with M.S.406 in non-BBA version)

– several more historical focuses completed in 1939 bookmark
– added missing Sovetsky Soyuz battleship template and some naval techs
– added missing Mykolaiv port in Ukraine (removes a large 0 supply zone)
– added Lev Shestakov Fighter Ace (from Spanish civil war)
– added Enrique Lister as a general from spanish civil war (focus completed)

– UK – starts with more Focuses completed
– UK – fixed bugged light tanks being empty hulls with no guns
– nerfed english and french colonies (puppets) in the middle east
– Romania will join Axis at a later, more appropriate date
– Iraq’s Golden Square coup will happen properly in 1941
– Poland’s sanation left/right infighting is already gone, Walery Slawek removed
– added imported anti-tank guns to Yugoslavia and reduced war support (pro-german support)
– Ireland will have the Neutral Foreign Policy and should remain neutral
– added 1 infantry sized ‘Army’ to Luxembourg

Miscellaneous & Fixes:
– added missing resources from various finished national focuses
– fixed incorrect icons and 3D models of some starting airplanes and ships for many countries
– modified many airplane/tank templates to be more accurate
– AIs will not engage in a full-out air war during the Phoney War
– fixed the Bosphorus strait not being accessible by Black Sea countries (fixes inactive SOV navy)
– major nations start with some Army/Navy/Air spirits and subdoctrines active
– fixed Mexico’s Oil not being nationalized, despite the focus being completed
– Mexico will start embargoed by USA and the UK (for nationalizing the oil)
– Trotsky moved from Norway to Mexico where he belongs
– added trade influence to Netherlands’ Gateway to Europe system to unlock the ‘choose side’ focuses earlier
– changed icon of some starting templates to differentiate them from each other better
– fixed USA starting without the great depression Idea
– Turkey & Romania start with license from Poland to produce PZL.24 fighter
– fixed bugged starting Turkish light tank; added missing PZL.24 fighters
– fixed missing support companies in starting Greek templates
– fixed Belgium starting with Mountaineers instead of Rangers
– fixed Switzerland and other minor countries not being neutral without their respective DLCs
– Big nations start with more fuel in stockpile
– added few more radars to UK and increased level to 2
– fixed USA+UK having 1944 Dual-purpose guns researched in 1939
– fixed New Zealand RNZAF focus not having any effect (this adds 116 medium bombers)
– changed starting occupied state compliance to more sensible levels (was either 0 or 70)
– reduced the unrealistic amount of convoys Norway starts with in 1939
– removed starting naval doctrines from many nations that either don’t have any navy or don’t have access to the sea at all
– many more tiny fixes and changes

Note:
‘Trial of Allegiance’ and ‘Thunder at our Gates’ DLCs are recommended off for better realism – the amount of power some of the countries receive is grossly unrealistic, and it even pushes some countries into the war that did not take part in it historically

Enhanced Historical AI (Fully compatible)
Fix Icons & 3D Models (Fully compatible)