Enough On Our Hands

— for HOI4 version 1.4.2

— for playing without historical focuses

— mod version 2019.07.14.01

This mod is intended to restrict the AI from opening multiple fronts unless when it makes sense.

The biggest problem in non-historical vanilla play is that Germany will take many war focuses without much (or any) consideration ending up in a multiple-front war she can’t win.

So this mod is going to be especially useful if you’d like to play against an AI Germany since in vanilla you only have to hold the front because AI Germany will open new fronts constantly, ultimately defeating herself. This is boring. The goal is to make Germany focus on defeating enemies before choosing new targets unless where a new front makes sense (like occupying Denmark to close the Baltic Sea while in war with UK/France).

Also can be useful if you’re going to play an Axis minor since AI Germany will be less likely to screw up your game.

This mod will do almost nothing in historical play since i don’t play that, i have no experience so i’ve left historical AI decision factors unchanged.

—- CHANGES FROM VANILLA —-

— The following focuses will be taken only if not at war with a continental neighbour:

– GERMANY : Demand Sudetenland, Fate Of Czechoslovakia, Second Vienna Award, Reassert Eastern Claims, Danzig Or War, Demand Slovenia, Fate Of Yugoslavia, Second Ljubljana Award, Fate Of Greece.

– ITALY : War With Greece.

– SOVIET UNION : Demand Eastern Poland, Offer Poland Protection, Southern Thrust, Ultimatum To Greece.

– UNITED KINGDOM (here this means they can be done if there’s no ongoing invasion against mainland Britain) : Secure Iraq, Secure Iran, Scandinavian Intervention, Swedish Intervention, Norwegian Intervention, Danish Intervention, Secure Belgium, Secure The Netherlands.

– ROMANIA : Puppet Bulgaria, Secure Greece, Secure The Bosporus, Divide Yugoslavia, Align Hungary, Split Czechoslovakia.

— The following focuses will be taken only if not at war with any neighbour, including colonial wars:

– GERMANY : War With The USSR, War With France (can be done only after Around Maginot).

– ITALY : Go After France, War With The UK.

– UNITED KINGDOM : War With Japan, War With Italy, War With Germany.

– ROMANIA : Demand Transnistria.

— There are many cases when a country gets a wargoal but the war is declared after the next focus is chosen so i have prohibited most war focuses from being taken when wargoals are available. Germany can do some smaller scale wars when she has a wargoal against the Soviet Union but still can’t start it because of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

— Many war focuses are disallowed in case the two nations fight a common enemy.

— Germany will do Westwall only after Rhineland since she usually needs that fort protection.

— Germany can do War With Greece only if the Greek is at war with a fascist country.

— Germany will not do Around Maginot while in war with a neighbour but not at war with the controller of Alsace.

— In case Germany gets into a war with Britain but not with France she will try to avoid war with France or the Soviet Union and also won’t do Operation Weserübung as long as the USA isn’t involved. Here the Axis has a good chance of defeating the Royal Navy and leaving Norway alone will make them concentrate all invasions against Britain so there’s some chance of an early victory over the Allies.

— In case France goes communist Germany will pursue a war with Britain in order to avoid an all-out war with Britain, France, and the Soviet Union at the same time. The commies won’t be attacked until a USA intervention.

— In case France goes fascist Germany will prefer to attack the Soviet Union instead and separatist Italy will prefer to attack Britain.

— Germany will pursue a war with Britain if she’s already at war with separatist Italy and will pursue a war with the Soviet Union if it’s already at war with separatist Japan.

— In case the Soviet Union is justifying on Germany or an Axis member the Germans will not do other war focuses and won’t honour the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Also Romania will postpone her Balkans dominance campaign in case of a Soviet justification.

— The Axis will try to avoid war with the Allies in case they get into an early war with the Soviet Union.

— Japanese priority on Chinese Puppet is increased and on War With China decreased in case the Beijing area is ceded by China after the border incident.

— Japan gets a wargoal only against China, not against Shanxi with the War With China focus because Shanxi will be incorporated into China in a few days anyway and this could confuse the Japanese battleplans.

— Japan will choose between joining Axis or forming her faction before doing a major war focus. She’ll always form her faction when going to reunite China under her puppet government or when going against the Soviet Union while it’s not at war with Germany.

— Germany and the Soviet Union will always honour the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact after Poland’s defeat in case they are at war with a major continental neighbour (e.g. Germany at war with France or the Soviet Union at war with Japan).

— Fixed vanilla bugs regarding Soviet focuses War With Japan and War With UK.

— The USA AI is now allowed to do the focus Pearl Harbor Gambit after the 01/01/1942 regardless of it’s fleet positioning. In practice the AI will never base enough ships in Hawaii to make the focus available so normally could never get Pearl Harbour attacked. This way it can start at the same time as the other war focuses. (based on Expert AI)

— Romanian focus to Invite German Advisors is fixed so it will now correctly give Germany military access to Romania, not the other way around.

— Hungarian focus to Proclaim Greater Hungary is set to take only 7 days since it gives nothing.

— AI will improve relations with each other only if they have more than 200 PP to spend. (imported from Expert AI)

— Imported some fixes from later patches

—- MODIFIED FILES —-

— FOCUSES : Germany, Italy, Japan, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, USA, Hungary, Romania, France, Australia.

— EVENTS : Germany, Japan, Soviet Union, France, Yugoslavia, Poland, Romania, Finland, Baltic.

— AI STRATEGY : China

— LAND DOCTRINE

Any other mods which don’t affect the mentioned files should be compatible.

Not ironman compatible.