Industry Rebalanced

Compatible with v1.9.1 and La Resistance!

If you’re looking for a more historical industry for your HOI4 game – which somewhat accurately reflects the actual balance of power and industry – but also want to be able to play different overhaul mods and not be restricted by constraints to your gameplay (such as removal of alternate history or other overhaul changes which are offered by other mods) – this is the mod for you!

If you’re looking for a less lightweight mod – which does all this and more, check out HOI4 ULTRA (Historical Industry Project).

Read on further for more details on the mods – and let me know your suggestions and feedback.

Event-Based Industry Buffs to Major Nations
– Major largely industrial nations such as the US, Germany, the UK and the Soviet Union recieve large buffs to their civilian industry at the start of the game to better reflect historical numbers. France also gets a much smaller buff.
– Event-based implementation means no states/history files are added. On start-up relevant nations recieve their buffs through a hidden event – meaning compatibility is greatly enhanced to allow use of overhaul mods such as Road to 56 or Beautiful States.

Expanded State Slots and Rebalanced Construction
– All state slots have been doubled to allow for substancial economic growth for all powers – no longer be as constrained as you might be playing the UK or the USA.
– Industry snowball has been slightly nerfed – with only 10 civilian factories being per building in construction. This roughly lowers growth by around 20% to 30% – meaning you can still snowball – although not as much as before.
– No changes to buildings or construction costs means maximum compatibility. Enjoy using building mods which add new buildings.
– Economic laws changed – lower levels of mobilisation actually boost civilian conversion and construction.

Production and Military Army Changes
– Military Factory efficiency slightly nerfed to better reflect historical numbers (although you can still produce crazy amounts). Production gain is slightly slower.
– Army Designer constrained to 3 x 5 and costs lowered – with width now being 96 with 48. Implemented to encourage more creativity with the designer and reflect more historical division sizes.
– Soft attack and air power slightly improved – to reduce less WW1 like combat and boost airpower.
– Slight terrain changes to encourage using terrain more to ones advantage.

Expanded Ministers and Government Slots
– Choose from up to six ministers, six military staff and three theorists alongside vanilla values. Be more creative with your government choices.

HOI4 Compatibility
Compatible with the latest HOI4 version 1.9.1 (although should be back-compatible to a lesser degree). Unfortunately not Ironman Compatible. Doesn’t require any DLC.

Compatible with Most Mods
Compatible with popular overhaul mods such as Road to 96 and Beautiful States. Essentially also compatible with any other mod as long as they don’t delete the German, French, American, Soviet or UK tags – funnily enough it should be compatible with Kaissereich.

Potential Issues
Minor conflicts can occur with mods that make changes to the idea categories – however this is minor and you’ll still be able to play. If you uninstall there shouldn’t be any issues. Let me know if you do find any and I’ll update this section as soon as possible.

Other mods that are worth checking out are:

HOI4 ULTRA (Historical Industry Project)
Essentially the mod which inspired this project. Many values and settings were looked at alongside vanilla options in order to derive values added. Rebalances industry totally and is probably your best bet for a realistic game – with changes to all nations, technologies, doctrines (their new land doctrines are amazing) and also rebalances focus trees and resources for better alternate history and realism. If you’re looking for a less lightweight industry rebalance with a multiplayer focus check this mod first.

Credit to the creators behind the main industrial values and various gameplay tweaks in this mod – as these values helped influenced these mod settings and tweaks greatly. You could even view the Lightweight Industry Rebalance mod as a "HOI4 Ultra Lite" which you can use on your other mods.

Beautiful States
Makes changes to the states in HOI4. Very nice mod which is incompatible with a lot of overhaul or conversion mods – but adds graphics, impassable areas (such as central Australia) and even some new tags and events. Even revamps the graphics for some national focus trees. Play with the Lightweight Industry Rebalance for even more fun!

Increased Resources
Adds historical (ish) amounts of resources to nearly everything relevant country to better represent resource deposits. Does this through an on_action file – which essentially means is compatible with anything and everything. Compatible with both this mod and Beautiful states – and I recommend using it as more resources will be used as a result of this mod versus vanilla (as more factories are added overall).