Home by Christmas
How to play this mod:
1. Right click HOI4 in your Steam Library
2. Click the bottom option (Properties or Settings or whatever)
3. Go to "Betas" Tab
4. Select "Cornflakes 1.5.1"
5. Let your Game update (or downdate technically ^^)
6. Subscribe to this mod
7. Launch the game, select this mod, enjoy.
Same works for every other outdated mod. I likely wont update this, if you want to do the work feel free to.
"They told us we would be home by Christmas. And we believed it too, foolish young boys that we were. This is my twentieth Christmas in the trenches. The foolish young boys have become grumpy old men, that is the few who are still alive. And yet there is no end in sight to this eternal war."
This is an alternate history mod in which the Great War never ended. You start in 1934, after 20 years of costant fighting. Manpower and morale are running lower than ever in the trenches of western europe.
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This timeline starts diverging from ours in 1917, afer the Russian Revolution Mexico accepts the Zimmerman – Telegram and joins the Central Powers. With Russia defeated and the United States diverted, Germany manages to send troops into the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire in late 1918 and keep the Austrian Half in the war, while a now independent Hungary signs peace with the Entente.
Mexico is defeated by the Americans in 1919. Soon after that, the Ottoman Empire falls apart under the pressure of Britain and France in 1921, which forces Bulgaria to also sign peace with the Entente.
Germany is now the only nation left fighting the Entente, but with the vast resources of Ukraine and Belarus they acquired from Russia after the peace of Brest-Litovsk, they can keep up the war effort almost indefinitely.
All major offensives since 1921 have failed, and at this point none of the fighting powers still posess the strength to break through the hardened frontlines in France and Italy. It seems this war will never end!
Can you reverse the 20 year stalemate of Europe and lead your faction to victory?
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I highly recomend playing the German Kaiserreich in this mod, as it will be expecially challenging to defeat all of the Entente alone.
This mod does not add any focus trees, and instead gives all countries a generic focus tree so no weird stuff happens. Also, tech and units remain unchanged, so the warfare itself plays out like vanilla.
Hotfix 1: Fixed a bug where some German divisions would spawn in Arabia.
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Since so many people on reddit and in the comments here asked for focus trees, I wont create any for this mod, this is intended as a Scenario that you play once, not a mod with great replayability. If you want to create focus trees and events for this mod I’ll be glad to include them!
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
