The Road to 56 [Beta]
July 2026 Beta!
**Highlights**
* Hourly ticks optimized, they should now be around 5% faster.
* Added a new event about the abdication of queen Wilhelmina.
* [TAOG] Significantly improved playability on the DLC’s focus trees.
**Additions**
* Added a historical tank designer scientist for Hungary.
* Restored shocktroops doctrine in the new system.
* Added two new victory points to Burma.
* Added decisions for Belarus to be able to core Smolensk and Białystok.
* Added an event for when Farouk of Egypt marries Farida.
* Added Taha Hussein as an advisor for Egypt.
* Added a unique trait to Michael I, alongside a leader description.
* Added or updated ~150 portraits across multiple tags.
**Adjustments**
* Baltic Union can now be formed by Lithuania and Latvia without requiring Estonia, which is now cored via a separate decision.
* Poland-Lithuania’s formable is less restricted, no longer requiring states with historical German/Soviet claims.
* Czechoslovakia will now be notified of the First Vienna Award, not that they can do much about it though…
* Paris Universal Exhibition event description features slightly more variety for alternative timelines.
* Added a missing check for Thaelmann if R56 old German tree is selected.
* Reenabled some alternative variations for ISR events.
* Burma’s states have been redrawn and populated to match vanilla, giving Siam two new states they can launch claims against and get as rewards in limited wars.
* Made Mustafa Shokai the non-aligned leader of Uzbekistan.
* Gave the Faroe Islands, Åland, Jersey, and Malta the generic microstate tree.
* Adjusted Irredentist Catalan decisions, which now require a set amount of compliance to take.
* Proposing a legal alliance as Egypt to the UK now locks Egypt in UK’s faction.
* Made Haile Selassie a constitutional monarch.
* Major changes to Liechtenstein’s "Form Russia" decisions, by adding new decisions, GFX, and localisation.
* Tsarist Liechtenstein has received a new focus to go to war with the Soviet Union.
* Khiva now starts out as Fascist instead of non-aligned.
* The Central Asian formable has been changed to not require Tajikistan and Aşgabat. Instead, a new decision has been made for Tajikistan, and Aşgabat will be cored upon forming Central Asia.
* Tsarist Liechtenstein will no longer be able to release the Soviet Union.
* Asking for Alaska as Liechtenstein is no longer RNG-dependent.
* Expanded unit model and voice support over multiple tags.
* [Non-TAOG] Siam has gained a few advisors previously restricted by DLC ownership.
* [TAOG] Fixed several Siamese characters not correctly giving faction bonuses with the DLC tree enabled.
**Bugfixes**
* Commanders can now be correctly captured.
* Removed errors caused by uppercase/lowercase typos in portrait paths.
* Commanders can now be captured.
* Fixed a lot of typos and a few instances of missing localization.
* Fixed multiple issues with Danzig for Slovakia.
* Fixed not being able to develop Nauru phosphate deposits.
* Added a missing spirit to Carpathian Ruthenia, lack of which sometimes prevented Hungary from attacking them.
* Fixed "Autonomous State" not being removed when Andorra became Catalonia.
* Gave some missing tags the Turkestan Unification branch.
* Fixed the map gfx bug in the south of the UK and Ireland.
* Fixed the "giant horse" bug when zooming into the map.
* [NSB] Fixed the default name for some lategame light/modern tank designs not being defined.
* [AAT] Fixed some Danish decisions referring to the wrong states.
**GFX**
* Fixed missing shell icon in Yugoslavia.
* Siam has gained a few misc advisor portraits.
* Ported unique British and Japanese artillery piece models.
* Kashmiri flags have been made consistent, no longer presenting different flags under different proportions.
* Gave the Central Asian formable unique flags. Kazakhstan too has received some new flags based on ideology.
* Revamped multiple portraits and added many new ones.
* Changed the Philippines’s colour to be a light purple, akin to its colour before No Compromise, No Surrender.
* One of the German events got an alternative picture.
* [NCNS] Sergio Osmena got his new vanilla portrait, while Manuel Quezon now uses 2 different portraits as he ages.
* [ToA] Added unique icons to the Mapuche decisions to liberate Tonga and Niue.
**Localization**
* Gave Tsarist Liechtensteiner focuses descriptions.
* Many leaders have received leader descriptions. Most notably: Chiang kai-Shek, Prince De, and some Central Asian leaders.
* [TaoG] Gave Phahon his leader description if the DLC tree is enabled.
**Credits**
– Please check out our ‘Credits.txt’ links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project, as well as for opportunities to learn about the related history.
**Contact Us!**
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**Our Wiki!**
– Do you want to know more about the mod? Do you need a path guide? Come and visit our [wiki](https://rt56.miraheze.org).
Revisions:
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