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Have you ever wanted to do a world conquest, but you were hindered to change ideology by these pesky things called "national foci" and "events"? Or those annoying negative "national ideas" standing in your way of bringing your nation to glory? Wanted to take over the world as Xibei San Ma but the only tech you had researched was 1918 guns? Then this mod is for you!
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– Removes all national foci, ideas, events, decisions, etc. (except the formable nations decisions).
– Keeps all the unique characters and makes them all available (so now you can play as democratic Spain having Franco as your field marshal and a communist political advisor).
– Starts every country with the same technologies and research slots (I gave a lot of 1936 tech because I don’t feel like researching every single ship hull)
– Starts every country with the same division templates (infantry division and brigade, tank and motorized) and equipment variants (heavy and light tank, – light cruiser, destroyer and submarine, – fighter and CAS).
– Removes all armies, navies and airforces.
– Removes all factions.
– Sets all puppets free.
– Makes all the unique MIO’s available.
– Starts all countries with the same ideology distribution (25%-25%-25%-25%) so that if you’d like to you can switch ideologies faster.
– Adds a generic unaligned ideology booster advisor for every country.
– Gives all countries an extra 50.000 manpower, 10.000 guns, 200 convoys and 50 trains at the start.
I’ve made this mod because I basically wanted a random country placement-type battle royale, but with the historical country borders. The mod is in its "bare minimum" stage and the AI won’t do anything which makes gameplay kinda boring. I recommend to play this mod with a generic focus tree mod and a chaos AI mod for some more exciting gameplay, but I plan to add my own warmongering AI.
I mainly made this mod for personal use so I didn’t really bother with making it compatible for no-DLC gameplay, but the only DLC you really need are MtG, NSB and BBA for the ship, tank and aircraft designs. For the rest you’ll probably have a bunch of missing gfx.
My planned features that I’ll be working on are:
– New bookmarks for playing with released nations
– Improving infrastructure all over the map to make playing in Africa/South America/Asia more fun/interesting
– Make democracies/neutral ideologies be able to do more fun stuff like puppet or justify war goals
– Decision for randomising resources
– Decision for randomising ideologies
– Decision for randomising factories
– Add some form of AI war justifying
Last but not least, as I’ve said earlier, this mod is in its "bare-minimum" stage, so there’s bound to be bugs. Feel free to leave a comment if you find one or if you have a suggestion and I’ll look into it.
Required DLC:
These DLC should be installed in order to use this item.
Hearts of Iron IV: Man the Guns
Hearts of Iron IV: No Step Back
Hearts of Iron IV: By Blood Alone
