Fixed Shandong declaring war on Anqing when both are pro-Fengtian. Fixed Syria not leaving the Cairo Pact, if Iraq challenges Egyptian domination. The Golestan Pact will now be dissolved if Persia chooses to ally with the Bharatiya Commune. Romania will now do their path to war national focuses sooner. Added an event for the death of Germanys Wilhelm Groener. LKMT now always puppets warlords that accept their negotiations. Removed claims on Kiev and Starodub for Polands Commonwealth. Fixed Portugals Protect Mozambique national focus not building forts in the proper tiles. Fixed RadSoc Liangguang not getting their correct map colour. Fixed the descriptions for the Siamese Civil War victory event being inverted. Removed the compliance gained when seizing Alaska. Fixed some scoping issues for the Shanxi/Qing peace deal. Fixed Austria getting Danubian annexation missions. Fixed Jabal Shammar crashing the game, if re-puppeted to the Ottomans during the War in the Desert. Fixed some problems with the Norway ai_will_do values for focuses, and for the Custom Game Rules. Pelley will now always refuse Quid Pro Quo (a player can still accept it). Fixed a Fengtian event appearing to remove a national spirit that it didnt have. Democratic Tibet now has elections every 6 years instead of 10. Nerfed Patagonias postwar stability gained from focuses. Added Cockermouth, Douglas, Dumfries, Stornoway and Oban as victory points to the Union of Britain. Massively improved the major East Asian peace chain. Fixed some issues with Costa Rica forming Centroamerica. Fixed PatAut Lianguang being unable to integrate the rest of China. Fixed Anqing decisions to receive equipment from the Fengtian Government not reappearing. Fixed Changtang not being taken from Tibet in peace events. Added leader traits to most Russian leaders. Australasian factory-building focuses have been given easier triggers. Fixed Two Sicilies Pietro Ago having the vanilla Bearer of Artillery trait. The Indian states now receive a decision to attack either of the other two Indian factions if they are somehow already at war, but we are not yet ready to take an attack focus against them. Fixed South Africas Plan Smuts decisions missing AI factors. Fixed all cases of more than four ministers in Colombia. Fixed the Donau-Adriabund merging with the Reichspakt twice. Fixed the War Propaganda generic decision instantly cancelling. Certain Polish national foci are now locked behind the Renegotiate Economic Treaties national focus. Greece and Romania can now end its war with Bulgaria parallel to the Balkan war when it does not join the Belgrade Pact at the same time as Serbia. Fixed the Socialist Russian Transsiberian national focus giving infrastructure to the wrong states. You can no longer cheese Black Monday by letting it time out as Dutch East Indies. Fixed some broken national spirits in Natal. Fixed Fengtians Li Dingyi not using the correct advisor picture. Annexation decisions are now recalculated for all countries after a peace conference, in case any trigger conditions change because of it. Press J to jump to the feed. Ma Biao is now correctly moved to Tibet when the latter is puppeted by the Ma Clique. Fixed Sun Qichang being classified as Zhang Clique instead of Concordia, in Fengtians Reforming Manchurian Finance event. Added SocLib and PatAut paths for Lithuania, which were not included in the initial release. Estonia: Artur Kapps Symphony N 2; Videvik; Koit; Don Carlos; Eesti Lipp; Kodumaa; Mu Isamaa, Mu nn Ja Rm, Hungary: Fehervari Indulo; Ungarischer Sturmmarsch, Latvia: Krauklits Sez Ozola; Riga Dimd; Ak, Latvija; Dievs, svt Latviju; Latvju Tautas Mars; Lgo, Laiva, Uz dea; Mirdzot piem Zeltsaules Staros; Zem Msu Kjm, Poland: Cikie Czasy Legionera; Marsz Triumfalny Jana III Sobieskiego. Added an irredentist Italian claim for Kotor / Cattaro. The Russian Far East can now be given to Transamur if the latter is an ally. Socialist Latvia no longer gets +5 organisation per hour from their national spirit. Added the option to support New England to Canadas American Civil War game rules. Fixed Lianguang getting the wrong military national spirit when forming National Protection Alliance China. German socialists from the Rhineland no longer spawn locked templates for the Combined Syndicates of America, CNT-FAI, and Russian Socialists. Fixed African countries not fully annexing each other in peace conferences. Fixed for Republican Canada keeping the Dominion flag. Replaced the starting armour division for Qing with an infantry division with armoured recon. Fixed puppet democratic Argentina having access to the NatPop tree. What does that mean? Fixed an exploit allowing Poland to potentially claim the entire world. Peru will lose their core on Pastaza when this happens, and when they are outright annexed by Ecuador. Fixed a Hong Kong-related event for the Legation Cities firing when they dont own Hong Kong. Chen Mingshu's coup now unlocks the locked Lianguang templates. NatPop Italian Republic is now known as the Italian National Republic instead of Legionnaire Italy. Fixed NatPop Norway not being able to complete certain national focuses. Fixed Fengtian getting two regionalist unrest national spirits. Fixed Patagonian news events firing too early. Fixed Ikhwan led by Duwaish not attacking the Ottomans. Continuing our pattern of smaller, more focused updates we are delighted to bring you the Romanian rework! Fixed the Ottoman Empire's enemies remaining at war with an unreachable Azerbaijan after the fall of the Ottomans. Some buffs for the Ottoman empire, including reduced focus times on several focuses. Araucania can no longer sabotage Argentina. The Indochinese Union is now just called Indochina. Restored the 50% value of equipment transfer upon capitulation (this is now the same as vanilla HoI4). Overhauled the Indian strategic regions, now split into seven regions from what was previously three. Fixed an exploit allowing the Ottomans to puppet Bulgaria by holding an event. Added a new Field Marshal and two new Generals to the Ottoman Empire. Implemented the Advisor Rework, where Kaiserreich now uses vanilla HoI4s system of Advisors, plus an additional Second in Command role. Lithuanian-Belarusian Federation cannot revolt, it also doesn't form if Lithuania is hostile to White Ruthenia. Fixed Yemens missing leader description for Ali Nassar al-Qadari. Adjusted the Chief of Army trait for the Commune of Frances Georges Catroux. Fixed Syria not being able to leave the Cairo Pact after becoming NatPop. Added three events about Kurdish resistance for Turkey. Creating cosmetic tags is much easier than creating a complete country. Improved the supply availability on the Fengtian / Qing border. Fixed Japan not getting wargoals on Han-led Kumul Khanate. Fixed Galicia getting Teschen if they dont own Krakow. Updated the starting divisions, division templates, navy and air force for the mainland Italian splinters. Yunnan will now remove its ministers when appropriate, to stop itself from having 4+ ministers. Poland is now also less likely to join the Reichspakt if Russia has adopted a Realpolitik foreign policy. Fixed Kornilov getting resurrected as a leader of PatAut puppet Russia. Decreased how often South Africa is able to declare on Sdwestafrika in the collapse of Mittelafrika, now requiring Namibia to be at war with Sdwestafrika. The Pacific States should annex New England more quickly after the American Civil War. Increased the AI weight for USA reunification with New England. Fixed Rexist Wallonia sending annexation ultimatums to puppets. Fixed Indochina not getting a core on Stung Treng due to not owning Cambodia. Increased the requirements for Germany to remove the Quenched Militarism national spirit. Dutch East Indies AI should now keep most of its army guarding Java. Fixed Lianguang being unable to edit their division templates after their civil war. Fixed the Return Lands decision sometimes not transferring state control correctly. Rebalanced Switzerlands New Order decisions to make it actually possible to secure the government and take Greater Switzerland. Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Regardless of who wins the Civil War, a reunified America has the potential to quickly . Authoritarian Democrat is no longer abbreviated in the ideology screen. Added a tooltip for Renew Pride explaining that it unlocks the coring decisions. Fixed the Ottoman Kadroist game rule from not working, and prevented some potential bugs in other game rules. Added a jet-based Airforce officer spirit. Removed the Russian / German Brest-Litovsk Reparation events. Changed the main theme to Koit, or Dawn in Estonian, which you can find here: Austria: Added Florentine March and Danubia March, Entente: Added Imperial March and Eagle Squadron. British West Africa now gets a core on Ghana. Fixed LEP being blocked out of its tree by Shandong being neutral. An Italian country that claims Malta while in the Entente will now be forced to leave the faction first. Added a party description to the Russian socialist parties. Increased the army and air experience gained from the German Military Expansion national spirit. This was done mainly due to poor AI fuel management of larger fleets (especially if the country was a minor or regional power), the starting navies having very poor screen-to-capital ship ratios, and the AI not building enough screens for their number of capital ships. We are not yet fully satisfied with this. Fixed Eastern European tank chassis art being missing on the tech tree. Reduced many of the Dutch East Indies focus times. Custom GUI in the stateview that shows which Province Chinese states belong to, similar to the new Ottoman GUI, The above GUI now shows the status of replacing the governors in the Reestablish Order decision tab for Anqing, Germany can now influence the Portugal-Mittelafrika peace deal, Redone the Socialist Anti-Colonial Committee focus for the Commune of France to match with the changes in National France, Added camels to the Middle East nations, Ethiopia, Somalia and National France, Internationale and Entente/Reichspakt countries will now embargo each other when joining the faction. Added a decision for Chile to attack an Argentina that is a puppet of Paraguay. Fixed Germanys Bring Back Order focus sometimes not giving the proper effect. Halved Romanias war support penalty on the integration of Transylvania. Fixed opinion modifiers for the French Republic and Spain. Greece's Megali Peace now also hands over the claimed lands of Greece's puppets. Fixed Jack Reed losing support in swing states, when he denounces Alf Landon. Fixed Lebanons Pierre Gemayel having the incorrect description. Otherwise, sit down and enjoy!*. Fixed Ecuador remaining alive in the Galapagos Islands after a peace conference. Morocco's naval focuses now give naval experience instead of political power. Fixed the Japanese War of Resistance modifier not cancelling when it should. The chain for the merger with Serbia is now triggered by a focus. Fixed the Defang Opposition Parties national focus for Brazil triggering the wrong event. Japan no longer keeps southern Manchuria when releasing MAN. Romanias natural borders are now more likely to occur if Romania has a claim on, and not just ownership of, Alfld. Removed NatPop Brazils national foci for rescuing parts of Africa. Fixed a missing province in a Romanian fortification focus. Rwanda and Urundi no longer spawn during the Mittelafrikan collapse. Tweaked the effect of the Three Principles national spirit for Tibet. Sudwestafrika no longer starts as a puppet of Germany. Fixed Argentinas missing leader description for Farrell. Forming Greater Norway no longer requires Finnish lands. Added Trento and Pola as new VPs for Austria. The French Republics Catholic Republic national spirit is renamed to Catholic Empire, if Napoleon declares the Empire. Some map updates to White Ruthenia, including supply areas and air zones. Tweaked the Commune of Frances AI with frontlines and defending against invasions. Non-ruling party leaders of New England are now generics, instead of being Huey Long, Floyd Olson and Jack Reed. Japan no longer steals Hawaii from a post-American Civil War USA, and altered the event chain involving Japan and Hawaii. Fixed the annexation event for Chelm not appearing. PatAut White Ruthenia is now displayed as Generalgouvernement Minsk. For the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, countries that turn socialist now refute the Port Said Convention. Nerfed the Union of Britain's dockyard output bonus. Russias Tsereteli can now be re-elected if chosen as provisional president. Fixed the effect for the League of American States being on the wrong event. New flags for Adamawa Clique, Afghanistan, Bulgaria (Socialist), Congo, Croatia, Dahomey Eritrea, German State, Hausaland, Korea, Nepal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, Turkey, Uruguay, Wales, New event pictures for Armenia, Brazil, China, GEA, Iraq, Poland, Russia. ITA and SIC should now be slightly less cautious about jumping in on wars against the SRI. The remainder of the former rework to Kaiserreichs naval system has now been removed, bringing the naval system fully in line with vanillas, save for names. Multiple fixes and improvements to the Intermarium system. The Union of Britain now starts the game controlling Ascension and Saint Helena. As an extra treat, 0.16.1 will also include the recently finished tag of Lebanon. Removed a random 5% chance for Norway not being accepted into the Internationale. Fixed Japan not being able to invest in naval dockyards properly. Decreased the amount of 10-width divisions that majors use, so that the AI should try and train better infantry divisions. This has to be one of the fastest, if not the fastest, development turnarounds weve had in the past three years. Instead, the conditions are checked after any annexation or after territory is gained, and at no other time. Ottomans now get angry if any major attacks them, not just Russia. Japan will now only declare on the Legation Cities once the Weltkrieg has started. Fixed RadSoc Liangguang not getting sufficient research slots. The Ma Clique has been buffed slightly, by removing their leader trait maluses, and giving some extra infrastructure in their national focuses. Fixed Zhongchang's decisions being available to Nanjing, plus some optimisation. Fixed South Africa not being released as the Federation by Entente allies. Added a couple of sanity checks to the Coto Brus event chain. Increased some benefits for Republican / Federation Italian Republic focuses. Paraguay can now core the border states with Brazil via a compliance/resistance decision. Added a description tooltip to Japans East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. Fixed an edge case where socialist countries could join the Moscow Accord. Serbias national focus to request Russian armour can also work on Socialist Russia. Socialist HOL can now release Insulindia. Updated Dominican Republic national focus and national spirit icons. We hope you enjoy playing Kaiserreich as much as we did making it! The "Crush The Anti-France'" national spirit for the Kingdom of France now also has a weekly stability minor debuff. Removed an unneeded date trigger for South Africa. Tweaked the effects of some late-game Paraguayan national focuses. Countries that don't exist at game start now also get naval XP gain. New National Focus icons for Poland, Scandinavia, Sweden, Qing and Uruguay. Germany in Exile now gets Mittelafrikas design companies. Fixed Hawaiis purchasing of ships causing event spam for majors. Completely reworked the Commune of Frances generals, admirals, and military ministers, Russias foreign policy has been overhauled to accompany the changes to the Middle East and the Caucasus, Expeditionary Forces no longer count towards the division limit, New focus icons for Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mittelafrika, Peru, the Union of Britain and Venezuela, New flags for Alash Orda, the Commune of France, Illyria, National France, the Ottoman Empire and Ulster, Adjusted the Africa loading screen to match the new situation, Armenia: Ber Kerestecyan, Hamazasp Babadzhanian, Assyria: Agha Petros, Dawid dMar Shimun, Shimun XXI Eshai, Austria: Alfred Jansa, Alfred Klahr, Eduard Barger, Erhard Raus, Franz Bhme, Franz Dinghofer, Friedrich Adler, Friedrich Materna, Georg von Trapp, Heinrich Pergler von Perglas, Julius Ringel, Karl Eglseer, Karl Renner, Lothar Rendulic, Ludwig von Eimannsberger, Pierre Ramus, Sigismund Schilhawsky, Wilhelm Miklas, Wilhelm Zehner, Belgium: Adelbert I, Georges Timmermans, Jean Baptiste Piron, Maximilien de Neve de Roden, Victor Billet, Victor van Strydonck de Burkel, Britain: Anthony Pugsley, Ebeneezer Edwards, John MacCormick, John Strachey, Robert Oliver, Bulgaria: Ivan Variklechkov, Kimon Georgiev, Konstantin Bekyarov, Konstantin Lukash, Nikola Hadzhipetov, Nikola Nakov, Sava Ivanov, Teodosi Daskalov, France: Andr Lemonnier, Andr Marty, Charles Delestraint, Charles Luizet, Diego Brosset, Ernest Petit, Gaston BIllotte, Georges Blanchard, Georges Catroux, Henri Tanguy, Jacques Sadoul, Joseph Putz, Louis Buisson, Marcel Gensoul, Marie-Pierre Koenig, Philippe Auboyneau, Raoul Castex, Raoul Magrin Vernerey, Ren Olry, Georgia: Ekvtime Takaishvili, Evgeni Gegechkori, Giorgi Bagration, Kakutsa Cholokashvili, Hejaz: Abdullah bin al-Hussein, Abdul Qadir Pasha el-Jundi, Ghazi bin Faisal al-Hashmid, Hungary: rpd Szakasits, Bla Kun, Istvn Bethlen, Oszkr Jszi, Ikhwan: Nid ibn Nuhair, Sultan ibn Humaid ibn Bijad, Zaidan ibn Hithlain, Jabal Shammar: Abdallah ibn Mitab ibn Abd al-Aziz, Muhammad ibn Talil, Saud al-Subhan, Lebanon: Bechara el Khoury, Emile Edde, Emile Boustany, Farajallah el-Helou, Fuad Chehab, Pierre Gemayel, Saeb Salam, Youssef Chmeit, Lithuania: Augustinas Voldemaras, Mikas Reklaitis, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem: Esat Sagay, Raghib al-Nashashibi. Harold Alexander now starts as a Canadian Field Marshal. Russia no longer has to pay Political Power to integrate Central Asia. Fixed the Left Kuomintangs dockyard decisions removing the industrialisation decisions. Fixed Gabons election victors not increasing their party popularity after being elected. Fixed the AI losing too much war support from the AI-only mission. Fixed puppets counting as majors for Germanys capitulation. Fixed Anqing attacking Hunan and Lianguang too early. Australasia MarkLib/SocCon coalition now uses actual coalition system. Removed the scripted localisation for the Halifax Conference tooltip. Puerto Rico can no longer reunite with a non-existing USA, Austria can no longer take the decision to intervene in WK2 on Germanys behalf if it is currently at war with Germany (duh), Fixed the Red Pope outcome for John XXIII if he is already Pope, Fixed the cancel triggers for Anqing's LEP war missions. NatPop Italy and Two Sicilies can now call for each others help when SRI starts to win against them. Fixed the moderate coup in Centroamerica not setting the correct leaders. Democratic AIs will swap out of the local autonomy occupation law, once compliance has been built up enough. Updated the version of Madju Sukarelawan (Advance Volunteers) for Insulindia. United States of America: John Nance Garner. Fixed some generals not joining their respective revolts in NatPop Brazil. Fixed Canadas missing description for King Edward and King Albert. Fixed the Left Kuomintang Totalists being able to pursue democracy. Updated some Romanian decisions to incorporate railways. Fixed Anqing not re-annexing Shandong after breaking with Fengtian. Replaced Ukraines Yurii Lapchynsky with Vlas Chubar. Changed the availability and potential targets of Patagonia and Argentina immigration decisions. Fixed Chen Jiongming becoming a puppet of Tang Jiyao. Sweden - focus tree improvements - focus durations are reduced, added new icons, focus effects, implemented several new focuses and balance changes. Assyria no longer joins the Entente before winning their starting war. We are so happy to be here and couldnt be more proud of all the work that has been done to get here. Added missions for Armenia to conquer Batumi and Kars. Fixed a RUS idea breaking without Waking the Tiger. As usual, this hotfix WILL break saves - so either start a new game or revert to previous versions to finish any ongoing games. Fixed Albania not peacing out with the Ottomans in the 4BW, after peacing out with the Belgrade Pact and losing Northern Epirus. The Ottomans are now able to decline the peace deal while intervening in the Fourth Balkan War. Fixed a missing Poland event about Germanys reaction to the peasant unrest. Fixed Bulgaria removing the State Protection Act even when having not enough deputies. Post-unification Federalist Chinas railway decisions now also add infrastructure. Fixed Assyria's Frontline of Imperialism referring to Canada instead of the Entente leader. Fixed an event not firing in the SocDem Lithuania path. Changed the names for Republican Ukraine. Sultan Abdlmecid can die natural death, for real this time. Increased the AI chances for Savinkov to come to power in Russia, reduced the republic's. Decreased the war support debuff political power buff from Romania Defanging the Legionaries. Added a focus for war for the Jujuy path in Bolivia. Fixed the Japanese Amagi Class Battlecruisers being classified as Battleships. Syria now gains Yusuf al-Azma as a Field Marshal through their focus tree. Fixed the Fate of Libya annexation mission repeating itself. The French Republic's Algiers Conference now requires ownership of Algiers. Isolationist countries can no longer send volunteers in the early game. Anqing, Fengtian and Nanjing will no longer accept a National Protection Alliance ultimatum under normal circumstances. Fixed countries not being peaced out with released Ottoman puppets after the War in the Desert. Fixed the Russian Socialists navy spawning in the wrong province. Germanys modern Battleships in the starting naval production, now start with more progress. Fixed the Bulgarian release event not firing correctly, if the country is at war with the IMRO. Added an event for Armenia about the collapse of the Tseghakronutyun. Germany in Exile no longer has cores at game start. Reduced the South African Republic army focus AI weights to a more reasonable value. Manchu Qings Zongshe will now go into decline, if they are in power and are locked out of their focus tree. Added renames in the Andes for Totalist Peru and Ecuador to Quechua, Aymara and Guaran. Fixed Fengtian getting events about appointing Ma Zhanshan even after his defection. Fixed Ethiopia joining the Reichspakt when it is the puppet of another country. Added four new Deutschland class interwar Battleships to Germanys starting navy. The Savoyard Crisis will now not contribute to world tension if it never escalates. Tweaked the stats of Canadian Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. Hearts of Iron 4 cheats - a guide to the best console commands Added annexation mission for the Legation Cities. Fixed two inverted German Government in Exile national spirits. Fixed the Netherlands negotiating with both the left and the right at the same time, as well as missing loc. Fixed the AI saving up to change economic law by two levels, instead of doing one level when it can afford it. Fixed Mexicos Zapata getting killed twice. Adjusted the duration of two of Mittelafrikas national foci. Fixed a misleading party popularity tooltip for Lianguang. Added the missing option to keep all of the West Indies Federation under occupation. The Princely Federation will now always accept diplomatic overtures from Japan, if set to join the Co-Prosperity Sphere in the game rules, even though they would have joined after uniting India anyway. Fixed Liu Heding not transferring back to Anqing once Shandong is annexed by Anqing. Shortened the news event for the Dutch revolution slightly so it doesnt clip under the option button. Hundreds of text standardisations and typo corrections. Fixed the Tibet-Sichuan peace treaty firing even if either tag was annexed. Fixed Anatolian Kurdistan getting support from Canada if at war with them. Removed some events in the Spanish Civil War that made participants surrender earlier than they otherwise would. Fixed the Netherlands' PatAut tree not unlocking after the March on The Hague. Alignments determine who the ideology is aligned towards, for example: Western Outlook means that the party aligns with the western countries (USA, UK, France, etc.) Fixed some slightly oversized national spirit icons. Made the Baku Conference checks more clear to the player. Fixed Tang Jiyao leading two parties at once in the UPC. Applied balance changes to the War in the Southern Cone. Fixed the League of Eight Provinces selectable missions missing AI factors. Fixed the UK General Elections firing before they were supposed to. Added option for Joachim-led Georgia to join the Reichspakt after the start of the War in the Desert. Fengtian should no longer call for non-Chinese aid. White Ruthenia now gains claims on Lithuania when forming the Lithuanian-Belarusian Confederation. Liberia can no longer join the Reichspakt while its at war. Sweden no longer suffers from the Trade War national spirit, if it rejoins Mitteleuropa. Fixed a double removal of the national revolutionary idea in Insulindia. Socialist Russia is now automatically added to the Internationale proper, once Germany capitulates.