Hearts of Iron IV 1.19.4 Details New Automation and Combat Changes

The update adds trading and diplomatic automation, a repair queue, saved fleet compositions, and selected Summer Edition Open Beta balance changes.

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Hearts of Iron IV 1.19.4 patch artwork showing people gathered around a map and planning table.

Hearts of Iron IV’s 1.19.4 patch pairs a broad set of quality-of-life additions with combat balancing, gameplay changes, and a long list of fixes. Players can automate resource imports and diplomatic responses, prioritize repairs, queue intelligence agency upgrades, and save fleet compositions for later in a session. Paradox had previously outlined plans for a separate quality-of-life update before the next Expansion Pass, but had not detailed the features.

Paradox says the update will also include selected changes from the Summer Edition Open Beta, including adjustments to doctrines and other parts of combat simulation. The Steam announcement frames the work as a response to community feedback and says the studio wants to continue iterating on quality-of-life features.

A video overview accompanies the detailed notes.

Patch Notes 1.19.4, Checksum a783

Quality of Life

Added notification grouping to reduce notification spam in cases of joining a war and getting the AI to spam you with a load of CTA and Military Access requests.
Added the option to Automate Resource Trading allowing you to assign a number of factories available for trade, and prioritising which resources to trade first.
Added the option to set Automatic Diplomatic responses to specific requests to reduce spam and unnecessary micro (for example always accepting Airbase Access).
Added a Repair Priority queue in the Construction window to give additional control over what should be repaired first. There is also an option to overwrite the queue by manually moving buildings in the queue.
Added the option to queue Intelligence Agency Upgrades.
Added the option to Recall Volunteer forces from a conflict as long as none of the units are encircled. Once recalled they cannot be re-sent for an extended period of time.
Added the option to save Fleet compositions, making them session persistent.
Pings are now visible when Volunteering, and you will see the flag of the Nation sending the ping so you know who is trying to get your attention without as much need to shout in Discord.
Added several keyboard shortcuts in the Research window that allow you to circumvent the ‘details’ window, as well as selecting a research and selecting the next Research Slot without closing the window.
Adds category filters in the Political Advisors window.
Allow to research a technology without using limited-use bonuses.
Shift-clicking insufficient resources allows you automatically import said resources immediately.
Added a toggle button in game settings that colors subjects the same color as their overlords.
Added a mini-map to the Focus tree to help navigate around.
Added 38 new profile icons to choose from for your Career Profile. (Parting gift from SpicyAlfredo <3)

Balance

SOV: ‘Military Engineering University’ now gives a flat +2 entrenchment bonus instead of +5%. The focus now also takes 35 days.
RAJ: Added the ability for India to increase their Aluminum production through a focus and a prospecting decision.
TUR: The focus ‘Desert Camel Corps’ now gives 3 free divisions.
TUR: The focuses ‘Rejoin the Central Powers’ and ‘Press the Austro-Hungarian Claim’ are now 35 days instead of 70.
JAP: Tthe spirit ‘Tora Tora Tora!’ now additionally grants bonuses to naval invasion planning speed, and the penalties given to the USA through the ‘Day of Infamy’ spirit have been increased.
NZL: the Bob Semple tank modifier now reduces the production cost of light tanks in exchange for reliability.
The Chinese focus to relocate MIOs no longer gives access to ones not under Chinese control, and instead unlock decisions to remove the state control requirement from specific MIOs when controlling their target states.
The EU faction invitation and federalization decisions can now be retaken if rejected, and the AI can be influenced in more ways.
NZL: Hiring the bank of New Zealand and Leslie Lefaux at the same time now improves his trait.
JAP: If Japan has researched the Midget Submarine project ahead of Pearl Harbor, their critical success chance is increased by 10%.
SPC: The Anarchist Spanish national spirit ‘Improve Military Infrastructure’ now also grants 10% railway and supply node construction speed. The decision ‘Ignite Uprising’ now costs 75 political power instead of 150 and takes 60 days instead of 90, and the ‘Integrate Commune’ decisions now cost 0.5 political power per day instead of 1.
RAJ: India now starts the partition with 9 pressure to spend on the princely states instead of 8.
JAP: Japan’s ‘Expand the Navy’s Technical Department’, ‘Modern Bombers’, ‘Sturdy Aircraft’, ‘Long Operational Range’ and ‘Nationalize Fujinagata Shipyards’ focuses now take 35 days instead of 70.
EST: Made the value of Estonian VPs consistent with other Baltic nations
Removed factory max efficiency cap and research speed from Swiss gold trade. Fixed a typo where resource penalty reduction wasn’t working.
Interwar Light, Medium and Heavy Tank Chassis gets -5% Soft, Hard and Air Attack bonus for module additive values.
Improved Light, Medium and Heavy Tank Chassis gets +5% Soft, Hard and Air Attack bonus for module additive values.
Advanced Light, Medium and Heavy Tank Chassis gets +10% Soft, Hard and Air Attack bonus for module additive values.
Modern Tank Chassis gets +15% Soft, Hard and Air Attack bonus for module additive values.
All Tank Chassis except for Land Cruisers have defined 0.5 HP scaled by reliability. For 100%+ Reliability tanks it should increase the HP of Light/Medium/Heavy/Amphibious/Super Heavy Armor to 3.5 HP from 2 HP.
Line Tank Destroyers, Self-Propelled Anti-Air, Self-Propelled Artillery HP reduced from 0.6 to 0.5. For 100%+ Reliability armor variants it should increase its HP to 1.25 from previous 0.6 HP.
Regimental Support Tank Destroyers and Self-Propelled Anti-Air HP reduced from 0.2 to 0.1. For 100%+ Reliability armor variants it should increase its HP to 0.65 from previous 0.2 HP.
Tank Destroyers, Self-Propelled Anti-Air, Self-Propelled Artillery – Breakthrough penalty standardized and set to -75% regardless of ‘weight’
Regimental Tank Destroyers and Regimental Self-Propelled Anti-Air – Breakthrough penalty standardized and set to -90% regardless of ‘weight’
Tank Destroyers and Self-Propelled Artillery – Now have a defense bonus of 25%, standardized regardless of ‘weight’
Regimental Tank Destroyers – Defense penalty reduced to -33%, standardized regardless of ‘weight’
Reduced CP cost for the Soviet Decisions ‘Staggered Retreat’ and ‘Order 227’ from 50 CP to 25 CP
Faction Rules – Declare War: Faction Leader Only, Penalty to Stability and War Support reduced to -5% from -10%
Faction Rules – Declare War: Major Country Only, Penalty to Stability and War Support reduced from -5% to -2.5%
Faction Rules – Call to War: Faction Leader Only, Penalty to Political Power Gain reduced from -10% to -5%
Faction Rules – Call to War: Major Country Only, Penalty to Political Power Gain reduced from -5% to -2.5%
Proximity Fuses bonus to Naval Air Attack reduced from 25% to 20%
Reduced Self-Propelled Artillery Soft Attack Progression from artillery technologies (Anything more than 5% was reduced to 5%, 5% boosts became 2.5%)
Reduced Tank Destroyers Hard Attack Progression from artillery technologies to 5% Hard Attack per technology
Reduced Tank Destroyers Regimental Support Progression from Artillery Technologies to 2.5% Hard Attack per technology
Motorized Infantry HP increased from 25 to 27.5
Cavalry now has +20% Breakthrough Bonus
Improved Infantry Equipment I and II now provides +10% Soft Attack Bonus to Motorized & Mech Infantry category from previous +5%
Mechanized Infantry Soft Attack Bonus of +10% removed
Amphibious Mechanized Infantry Soft Attack Bonus of +10% removed
Bicycle Infantry Support Equipment cost reduced from 10 to 5
Tank Module Cast Armor now provides +10% HP
Tank Module Welded Armor now provides +5% HP
Tank Module Anti-Air Gun II Anti-Air Attack reduced from 32 to 31
Tank Module Anti-Air Gun III Anti-Air Attack reduced from 46 to 44
Tank Module Rocket Launcher: Breakthrough increased from -2 to 4; Added Defense of 4; Increased Hard Attack to 4
Tank Module Improved Rocket Launcher: Breakthrough increased from -2 to 8; Added Defense of 8; Increased Hard Attack to 6
Tank Module Easy Maintenance: IC cost reduction reduced from -7.5% to -5%, and XP cost reduced from 30 to 20. Reliability bonus reduced to 7.5%
Tank Module Sloped Armor now provides +5% HP
Tank Module Auto-Loader: Now also provides +2% Soft Attack and +2% Air Attack
Tank Module Stabilizer: Now also provides +4% Hard Attack
Tank Module Smoke Launchers: Breakthrough increased to 2 from 1
Tank Module Secondary Turret HMG now provides also -4% Soft Attack Penalty
Tank Module Secondary Turret Small Cannon now provides also -5% Soft Attack Penalty AND -5% Hard Attack Penalty.
Deep Battle Doctrine First Reward: Armored Car Recon now also provides +5% Soft Attack and Defense bonus to Leg Infantry
Defensive Postures Fifth Reward: Entrenchment Speed bonus increased from +15% to 20%
Large Unit Tactics First Reward: Entrenchment Speed bonus increased from +10% to +15%
Large Unit Tactics Second Reward: Infantry Combat Width Reduction reduced from 0.3 to 0.2
Individual Excellence Second Reward: Bonus from Logistics Company to Motorized & Mechanized Infantry category lowered from 5 HP to 2.5 HP
Fire Concentration Adoption Reward: Organization bonus to Line Artillery increased from +5 to +10
Mobile Recon and Assault First Reward: Logistics Company get extra -5% Supply Usage
Mobile Warfare Armor Milestone: +15% Breakthrough bonus to Army Unit Category
Mass Assault Adoption Reward: Non-Combat Out-of Supply Penalty bonus increased from -10% to -15%
Mass Assault Infantry Milestone: Infantry Combat Width Reduction of -0.2 added; Removed Brigade Size +1
Mass Assault Artillery & Combat Support Milestone: Non-Combat Out-of Supply Penalty bonus of 5% removed; Minimum Training Level bonus of -5% removed; Added Brigade Size +1; Added +2% Reinforce Rate
Mass Assault Operations Reward: Bonus to Entrenchment Speed of 5% removed; Increased Minimum Training Level bonus from -5% to -10%; Added -15% Supply Consumption bonus
SAM missiles are now roughly 9x stronger. Meaning that actually have some effect rather than almost none.
Searching for weapon caches in Finland now costs 5 CP instead of 15.

Gameplay

Naval production lines now allocates manpower when building the ships rather when deploying them.
Enabled auto selecting home base by default.
RAJ: Added a late-game event for the British Raj that can make Louis Mountbatten the new Viceroy of India.
Adjusted Tajik flags and names, and added a new formeable nation accessible to them instead of the Turkic one.
SOP: Bronislav Kaminski and Konstantin Voskoboinik now join the White Forces as Generals at the start of the Second Russian Civil War.
CHI: Added the Beining Railway Tangshan Manufacturing Plant as a train manufacturer designer/mio available to China and the Warlords.
TUR: Added a new focus to the Ottoman branch for Turkey which allows for a quicker expansion of the navy, and gives a wargoal for restoring the Protectorate of Aceh.
AFG: Added the ability in the Bukharan Emir/Second Afghan Empire path to utilize the Manghud Dynasty to choose between their Turkic and Mongol heritage to create a late-game formeable nation.
Caps trickleback to defined value to prevent unintentional gaining of manpower from casualties.
Reichskommissariat capital states are automatically returned when Germany is defeated.
SWI: Reduced some sources of Balance of Power drift.
SWI: Significantly improved Swiss AI decision making.
Minor countries will be more proactive in peace deals.
JAP: The focus ‘Staunch Opposition to the East-Asian Conflict’ which unlocks their ability to surrender now requires them to not be allied with an uncapitulated major and to not control any of Beijing, Nanjing and Guangzhou, so long as they have not already been nuked.
USA: Now gets notified after ‘Operation Vengeance’ takes place whether it succeeded in taking out Yamamoto or not.
Returning Italian territory no longer transfers colonial states.
SOV: Now starts with a design for the Tupolev I-12 plane.
Chinese generals that defect to the PRC may now return if they are defeated.
Made cavalry units eligible to produce infantry and operations doctrine track mastery.
JAP: Updated the Japanese desperate defence systems, including adding an event for defending Taiwan if enemies set foot on it using the Takasago Volunteers.
JAP: Added an Operation Ketsu-Go event for Japan for if the Home Islands are invaded.
The EU formeable can now be proclaimed through the federalisation category, annexed subjects holding the required states and being mutually exclusive to the category that requires direct conquest.
Added armored support vehicles to the ‘medium tanks’ category for the purpose of MIO eligibility, and fixed a large number of cases where focus or history-created vehicle designs were assigned to MIOs that had no valid traits for them
Set Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Raj to be able to get Commonwealth medals rather than generic ones.
SOV: Renamed the tier 1 Soviet heavy tank destroyer to SU-152 to more closely match the evolution of this class of vehicles from the KV chassis
RAJ: Set anti tank model to use British guns instead of the generic type
Updated the Naval Treaty category to display information more clearly and accurately, including the current members, and added the ability to call out a nation for cheating on the treaties, in exchange for the value of the cheating being increased a small amount
Docking rights are now cancelled automatically when the two countries join the same faction or become overlord and subject.
SPC: Anarchist Spain has two new focuses. ‘Form Factory and Plant Committees’ grants industry and upgrades the ‘Torchbearers of Tomorrow’ national spirit, and ‘To Do That Which is Right’ upgrades ‘The Threats Abound’ national spirit. The focus ‘Faith in the Cause’ is now the new country leader trait ‘Protector of the People’.
Highlighted dynamic modifiers now also show on the country selection map.
HUN: Now drops its Greater Hungary name if it ends a war as another country’s subject.
Syria and Lebanon now update their mandate names as they move between Free France, Vichy France and independence.
RNG: The Reorganized National Government of China now uses Chinese unit models.
RAJ: India now founds the Intelligence Bureau as its intelligence agency by default, with the Research and Analysis Wing still selectable.
RAJ: Pattabhi Sitaramayya can now lead the Congress through new Tripuri Session and Old Guard events, and be hired as a political advisor.
RAJ: J.R.D. Tata and G.D. Birla can now also be hired by a loyalist India after Concessions to the Industrialists, not only by the East India Company.
RAJ: Travancore and the Madras States now take part in the historical partition as a princely state India and Pakistan can compete for.
RAJ: With Graveyard of Empires, the British Raj now has Asghar Khan as an air chief and Sir Richard Peirse in air high command, replacing two fictional air chiefs.
RAJ: India can hire Vallabhbhai Patel on the Congress path for extra partition pressure on the princely states, and S. A. Ayer on the Azad Hind path
RAJ: Indian advisors now show from the start and only disappear once your political path locks you out of them.
Leaders of a faction with Czechoslovakia now always get an option to defend it over Sudetenland
Equipment can now have defined multipliers to the ‘additive stats’ from the modules, and multipliers to the ‘multiplicative stats’.
Equipment can now have scaling stats based on the Reliability of said equipment.
Now able to clear out all queued agency upgrades by shift-clicking the clear button.
Canceling an agency upgrade won’t ask you for confirmation unless more than 10% progress has happened
Operations Doctrine Track gain is now based on the Army Category instead of the previous 6 categories; this means that there are less inconsistencies when it comes to what is providing mastery for that track of the doctrine.
EST: Restored a nearly-complete Estonian event.
POL: When playing as Germany-aligned Poland, requesting cores in the East will now also block Germany forming RKs in the area’s they granted you cores to.
Added Janjira as a victory point
IRQ: Iraq now gains an event if still a puppet after WW2, that allows them to strive for independence.
The timing of an AI controlled USA nuclear facility construction is now consistent regardless of whether the game starts in 1936 or 1939.
Set AI Hungary, without BBA enabled, to hire a Democratic Reformer sooner and avoid long term ideological drift that was blocking them out of the ‘Responsible Government’ focus.
Made historically Commonwealth nations that subsequently go to war no longer eligible to get British medals, because that’s just not on, old chap.
Adjusted a couple focuses the Finnish and German AI takes in the 1939 bookmarks to improve historical timing of events
Add bypasses for the Spanish Anarchist focuses ‘Maintaining the Fire’ and ‘Faith in the Cause’ if they already have 100% war support.

Stability & Performance

Continued to improve the Multiplayer Experience.
Large number of optimizations in decisions and focuses for dozens of countries worldwide.
Optimize some math operations throughout the game
Reduced string allocations in GUI system

UI & UX

Added a tooltip to ship role icon.
Enabled Task Force composition add/remove button tooltips.
Right-clicking the reserve fleet button now moves all ships in the theater to the reserve fleet after confirmation.
Left clicking the reserve fleet button now selects all task forces in the reserve fleet.
Right-clicking a ship class icon now allows you to reassign all ships of a specific class in a fleet into a new taskforce.
Selecting several fleets and pressing G merges them into the first.
Shift+g merges every task force in the current naval theater.
Adds ‘A’ hotkey to Airborne Orders in the Battle Planner.
Adds a toggle for masking ServerID.
show target country flag on operative bottom bar item.
show remaining days countdown for operation duration.
Adds toggle for masking server password.
Improve Request Lend Lease UX by giving more precise info on AI’s willingness to lend.
show unavailable filter in operations.
Added support for collapsible diplomatic action alerts.
When offered a Lend-Lease deal, we now show the equipment type in addition to the equipment name for clarity.
Auto accept trade proposals in default.
Added a Spy Mission completed notification.
Fixed construction queue scroll bar getting stuck.
The Collaboration Government event can now be permanently disabled through a third option in the event.
Fixes country names being overlapped by filters in focus tree.
Add the ability to setup some automatic responses to incoming diplomatic actions.
Country-specific spy operatives are listed on top.
Resource production tooltips are now sorted by amount delivered.
Ottoman coring decisions now highlight the states they target.
Fixed switched collapse/expand tooltip on production lines.
Added a description of the basic conditions for a country to qualify to be a major to the top bar factories tooltip.
Fixed the tooltip cursed button in the playthrough overview window that suggested you’d quit the overview and return to the play session, but actually quit to menu.
RAJ: ‘Vie for Princely States’ now has its own icon, clearer tooltips and a panel showing your remaining pressure and your pressure on each state.
The Partition decision category now uses a crown icon instead of an army helmet.
RAJ: The Partition decision category now has a description explaining the contest for the princely states.
Adds Alt+Delete keybind to delete all airborne and naval-invasion orders of selected divisions.
Shortened several Indonesian, Siamese and New Zealand focus names that overflowed their focus boxes.
Show captor flag on captured operative portrait.
Right-Clicking the topbar country flag opens your own diplomacy view.
Remove redundant International Market automation options, leaving only the automatic sending.
Removed design company from licensed equipment tooltip as it did not apply.
Singapore, Guam, Wake Island, Batavia, Attu, Penang and the North Borneo towns now take their wartime Japanese names when owned by Japan, such as Shonan-to for Singapore
Fixed strange line breaks in the tooltips for the Danish surrender events.
Fix tooltip of the Italian ‘Peace Preservation’ focus wrongly stating the max attainable consumer goods reduction is -5%, when it is actually -20%.
Fixed the Greek decision ‘Revive Byzantium’ wrongly stating ‘The National Union of Greece will be known as National Union of Greece’. Now states ‘The National Union of Greece will be known as Byzantine Empire’.
Soviet Union demands Karelia event localization will now correctly adjust to who currently controls Karelia.
Switched Romanization style for some Japanese place names to prevent display errors with missing characters.
Fixed an ancient tooltip causing Manchuria to get references to the advisor Soong-Mei Ling, who they don’t have.
Fixed the division designer displaying superfluous decimals when using captured mechanized equipment, when you yourself have not researched it.
Fixed missing ahead of time info for improved and advanced naval fire control tech tooltips.
Fixed misleading loc in the Manchukuo bandit decisions, making it clear you need to station X divisions in place for X time in order to succeed and remove bandits.
Hides the ‘Mare Nostrum’ focuses if Italy takes the Greater Italy path instead.
Fixed a missing research bonus modifier name when an Italian state in Ethiopia completes the ‘Research Exchange Programs’ focus.
Fixed the incorrect ‘Embrace Corporatism’ focus tooltip for Brazil to correctly state it grants 5% production cap, not factory output.
Fixed a number of wonky notifications around the Polish monarchy events.
Improved outdated description of the Ideological Crusader advisor to make its actual effect clearer.
Fixed a text overflow in the Latvian ‘State Paganism’ focus description.
Fixed Bulgarian ‘Overthrow the Tsar’ focus description stating it will remove Tsar Boris III twice, wrongly suggesting two debuffs will be canceled instead of one.
Added missing search filters for the Swedish fascist branch focuses ‘Recognition of our Finnish Claims’, ‘Reichsprotektorat Nordland’, and ‘The New Order’, and the Iraqi one ‘Further Soviet Support’.
Cleaned up Afghan ‘Request Soviet Support’ focus description, removed a lot of convoluted and unnecessary text.
Clarified description for the Latvian ‘A Martial Prime Minister’ focus to make it clear that Janis Balodis becomes available as a political advisor. Previously the text looked like a national spirit.
Fixed Wilhelm III using the wrong national spirit portrait when becoming the monarch of democratic Germany.
Fixed an unknown army commander silhouette icon being used for intel agency operations that required two operatives assigned, instead of the correct operative silhouette.
Fixed visual placement of land forts in Cyrenaica to avoid misleading cues as to what province they are in.
Fixed a few tooltips in the French focus tree.
The German Reichskommissariat puppet name for the Soviet Union is now correctly spelled ‘Reichskommissariat Moskowien’.
Fixed a title text overflow for a new event for communist Lithuania.
Fixed ‘Fall of Calcutta/New Delhi’ news events never firing.
INS: The Development Loans focus no longer shows 1 civilian factory being taken as interest despite taking 2. The tooltip now accurately says 2 civs will be removed.
INS: Clarified the tooltip of the focus Revolutionary Economic Cooperation to specify that bonuses are only granted after revolutions succeed, rather than start.
Forming Hindustan now fires its world news event.
Pattabhi Sitaramayya now shows his own portrait instead of a generic one.
Dutch event after forming a German puppet through the ‘Wilhelmism’ focus no longer has broken localization.
Fixed typo in German battle plan name loc that would cause operations in Italy to be called o_alaric in game.

AI

The Japanese AI will now place a dedicated garrison on Okinawa and Taiwan when at war with a major that has at least a decently sized navy.
The Allies are now more likely to give Indochina back to France at the end of the war.
The Japanese AI will now concentrate attacks on areas it makes offensives in, and the Chinese one will focus extra defence in states they demonstrate their resolve in.
Peace Conference fixes: Japan no longer leaves China untouched after winning the war, America now reliably remakes Japan, America has a plan for Japan when it cannot afford to occupy it, Japan finishes off the Chinese warlords instead of leaving rump states, The Japanese Pacific islands are contested by America only, Fascist and non-aligned countries can retake their own core territory, Winners stop annexing land from countries they are simultaneously puppeting and Peace conferences leave fewer leftover rump states.
Japan and the UK will now raid all incoming convoys around their main islands if an enemy has landed on them.
Fix AI accepting Lend Lease requests for fuel when they don’t have enough for themselves.
Japan’s AI now responds to Imperial Faction demands it previously ignored. It will appoint advisors, change trade laws, raise more divisions, stockpile equipment and curtail an over-mighty faction when the relevant demand is active, instead of failing them by default.
Fixed Japan’s Chief of Army candidates being prioritised during the Army’s factory demand instead of its appointment demand, which left the appointment demand with no AI support at all.
The Japanese AI will now hire one of the five Zaibatsu industrialists when the Zaibatsu demand a political appointment, rather than picking from its usual advisor pool at random.
The Japanese AI now holds back trucks, artillery and medium tanks when the Army demands a stockpile of them. These demands were previously impossible for the AI to meet, since it assigned every unit of equipment to divisions as it was produced.
The Japanese civilian government’s demands to curtail the Army, Navy or Zaibatsu are now achievable by the AI, which previously had no way to reduce a faction’s influence.
The US AI now starts its nuclear program a few years earlier, prioritizing building its research facilities at Los Alamos and Hanford, and should have an atomic bomb ready closer to the historical date
Communist and fascist Commonwealth dominions on their game-rule paths now leave British control and change government much sooner, and New Zealand’s and South Africa’s communist paths gain stronger popular support
After the Second World War, Iraq and Iran as subjects now work towards independence, and on historical Britain or the Soviet Union lets Iran go without a war.
The Japanese AI no longer stops expanding its army while meeting army faction equipment demands in wartime.
The Japanese AI now invades Burma overland from Siam and by landing at Rangoon, without waiting for Singapore to fall.
Once Singapore, Java and the Philippines are secured, the Japanese AI now pushes overland through Burma into Manipur, Assam and Bengal while keeping its line in China manned.
AI will prioritize government in exile less when choosing lend-lease targets.
Added AI Strategy for the Soviets to dissuade them from doing early naval invasion of the Romania and Bulgaria.
Adjusted one of the USA Infantry Templates to include Support Artillery as well as to use Motorized Heavy Weapons Company over regular Heavy Weapons Company.
Improved USA’s research goals & armored division templates.
The United Kingdom will build M4 Sherman tanks when given the license. USA will give license to produce M4 Sherman to the United Kingdom.
United Kingdom now builds a naval base for supply in Sidi Barrani for its push towards Tobruk
Finland will try and go for a white peace with Soviet Union earlier during the continuation war
Soviet AI will now put more effort into moving its industry to the Urals when at war with a major power, and having the trains available for it.

Modding

Adds stockpile_fuel AI strategy.
Exiled leader trait item logging error fix.
State scope variables are no longer classified as raw numbers in math expressions.
Fixes hidden_modifier for advisors so that such modifiers don’t show up in tooltips.
Added two new functionalities to the equipment blocks – module_add_stats_multiplier and module_multiply_stats_multiplier that allow to increase or decrease the stats and multipliers provided by the Modules in the Equipment Designers.
scaled_by_reliability is a new stat that can be used in the equipment definition, any stat put inside of that block will scale it’s magnitude based on the Equipment Reliability. Following Stats SHOULD NOT be used within that block: Reliability, Reliability Factor, Carrier Deck Size and IC Cost.
Adds opt-out ‘overlord_fights’ to border wars, allowing subjects to fight themselves in scripted border wars.
Added the optional argument immediate_status_update = yes to set_major to reload the majors list immediately.

Bugfix

Fixed a bug where industry being transported to the Urals would end up deleting if state was captured before the move was finished. Instead the factories will appear at 90% damaged
Prevented a rare OOS when having Windows and any other OS in the same game (OOS is unconfirmed in native, might have happened with mods).
Fixes to the Netherlands focus ‘Wilhelminism’ and to the French focus ‘Grow the Empire’.
Fixed USA focus ‘Defense of the Pacific’ and Sweden’s ‘Economic Dereglation’ no longer being available if communist, and being removed if it was obtained prior to recieving the communist version of ‘Folkhemmet’.
Fixed incorrect loc in the ‘Unholy Alliance’ event for USSR.
Fixed incorrect election date for France in 1939 start.
Fixed event misfiring in Dutch focus ”Go With Britain”.
RAJ: Fixed bugs of event chain with effects not matching tooltips.
Fixed an issue where the trait ‘Asian Unifier’ and ‘Liberator’ did not apply to Wang Jingwei after completing ‘End the Humiliation’.
The PRC can now remove the Shanghai International Settlement when proclaiming the People’s Republic.
Fixed an issue where the Central Asian tags were unable to acquire military staff.
Japan is no longer spammed with events intended for China when declaring war upon them, and Chiang Kai Shek is now replaced if a non-aligned Japan puppets China in a peace conference.
The Ottoman focus ‘Return of the Sultan’ now informs the player the effects of the event it launches.
Adds a fallback to German ‘Reichsautobahn’ focus if all usual states are already on max infrastructure.
Fixed loophole for Swiss decisions to bypass country rule of not being allowed to join a faction.
Prevents the Dutch from taking ‘Affirm Loyalty to Moscow’ and ‘Join the French’ focuses if they are not fully independent.
Fixed an issue where Himmler could protest actions taken by… Himmler!.
Germany now inherits overlordship over Vichy puppets when performing Case Anton, circumventing an immediate peace conference regarding any capitulated French subjects.
Fixed a bug where in multiplayer an auto save would happen, and the division designer would lose its changes.
‘Second treaty of Berlin’ focus now properly checks for Soviet ideology.
Events won’t mention the Winter War if it never happened.
Nuclear bomb that can be gained during the Manhattan project now properly unlocks the raid to deploy it.
Fixed generic industrial focus tree sometimes happily placing factories and infrastructure in impassible states
Faction goal complete notification fix.
Fix faction goals glowing if there are no goals left.
Fixed faction goals glowing if there are no goals left.
Fixed truck movement animations being missing in land raids.
Fixed some embargo focuses not properly working without BBA.
Fixed bug that let anyone core Macedonian states.
Fixed an issue where the Soviets could become a puppet of Japan if their capital was in asia after surrendering Siberia to Japan as part of the separate peace.
Fixed an issue where the German Hilfkreuzer ‘Refit Merchant Ships to Merchant Raiders’ decisions didn’t cost anything to take.
Stops the AI from raising the conscription law before mobilizing the max manpower of the current one (as raising the law doesn’t increase mobilization speed and only introduces unnecessary penalties).
Fixed a bug where equipment capture ratio was calculated incorrectly when averaging between multiple divisions (100% and 50% capture ratios were “averaged” to 83.3%)
Properly caps max equipment capture ratio at 100% for calculations (will still display as >100% in the UI).
Fixed two instances where Uruguay could be locked out of joining factions despite being meant to be able to.
Fix a CTD that could happen if a mod had a typo in a shared focus id, now logs errors and gracefully ignores it.
Fixed a CTD from a UI race-condition in the construction view.
OOS that could occur if the host had BBA and unlocked rocket engines.
Fixed crash when hovering over a state in the ask/give.
Fixed sorting for division template 3D models for foreign equipment.
Division designer and army HQ designer buttons now open an empty template.
Fixed an issue where captured generals would not be considered correctly.
Fixed CTD after completing national focus Sudirman’s Army with ff command.
Fixed an issue where Switzerland would not be able to properly utilize its militia divisions.
Implements guards for the Japanese AI to not suicide attack warlords that are protected by the Comintern and Soviet Union by either being in a faction with them or being a puppet of theirs.
The air wing bonuses now apply instantly instead of wating for a tick to pass.
Fixed various minor issues that could arise from the Soviet-Japanese border conflicts.
Fixed soundtrack weight modifiers that used invalid values for surrender_progress check.
The Lithuanian focus ‘Occupation’ now affects German expansionism.
Fixed so created raids don’t count for the raids available notification.
Fixes client map not updating when switching scenarios.
Fixed various events displaying blank spaces instead of country names.
Fixed so MIO upgrades don’t reset the ship namelist.
Fix instantly losing the Yugoslav civil war after granting autonomy.
Fixed a few issues causing Germany to not give their Reichskommissariat states in peace deals.
Fixed an OOS that could occuer when a scientist has more then 2 skills.
Fixed an OOS that could occur from playing a late game session before joining another.
Fixed CTD when opening Army HQ template with modded max defines.
Fixed country tags in various German influence nation decisions that targeted Maldives instead of Malta.
Fixed ASEAN, Maphilindo and Nusantara not granting all the intended cores.
Fixed an improper localisation string from border war triggers.
France can no longer absorb Vichy France when Vichy is a subject of a third country, so a Vichy puppeted in a peace conference stays with its overlord instead of being annexed anyway.
One-off switch of Romanization styles to fix a broken name of the Japanese trains MIO.
Fix the ‘The Secret Army’ and ‘Consolidate Resistance Groups’ having no effect on Belgian Resistance.
Fixed the improved railway company having an invalid reliability trait that had no effect on trains, mirrored the stats of the base railway company.
Fixed a bug in the Raj focus tree causing it to prefer to magnanimously place experimental facilities in Baghdad, not Delhi.
Faction theater icon sometimes not showing the current faction icon.
Fixed scenario change not updating player selected countries accordingly.
Several events that happened before the start date no longer show on the 1939 scenario.
Resolving a call to war now automatically resolves other calls to the same war.
Removed an exploit where you could force-retreat ships by pressing Distribute taskforces button.
Fixes exploit of a halted air wing movement causing the air wing to acquire the range of the destination Air Base (even though it never actually transferred to it).
Fleets no longer leave a stale docking-rights supply node behind when re-based, disbanded, merged or transferred to another country.
Fleets based in a foreign port are now moved to a valid home base when docking rights end, e.g. on war declaration.
Docking rights supply nodes are now one per port, track the homed fleets’ actual supply need, and expire once no fleet uses them.
Fixed Bulgarian “Purchase X Equipment” decisions not working.
Fixed the French “Division Cuirassée” focus to properly target the Char B1 design France actually has, and provide the requisite tanks as part of the focus reward.
The Phayap Army no longer declares a separate war on China. It now joins your partner’s existing war against China as a co-belligerent, so the campaign feeds their peace conference instead of opening an unwinnable front..
Fixed The Phayap Army claiming it would declare war on China even when China no longer existed, had already been fought, or was on your own side. The focus now states plainly when there is no war to join.
Fixed The Phayap Army and Get Off Our Shores failing to create their Royal Thai Divisions on a 1939 start (7 divisions across the two focuses).
Fixed Reluctant Submission leaving Siam unaligned when the invading power was a faction member rather than its leader. Siam now joins their faction properly. As a result, Demand Repatriation is no longer permanently unavailable in those games, so the printing-money penalty can be cleared.
Fixes diplomacy request alerts being drawn on top of full screen windows.
Fixed a bug where units could sometimes join an attack across impassable terrain as part of an offensive order.
Fixed a number of invalid modules on AFV, ship, and plane designs that would cause them to spawn oddly, or not at all.
The Japanese Imperial Factions could permanently stop making demands part-way through a game. One demand type incremented the “demands in progress” counter without ever clearing it, and after two occurrences the system shut down silently for the rest of the campaign. Fixed.
Each Imperial Faction demand could only ever fire once per game. Demands now become available again after a cooldown, so the factions keep making fresh demands throughout the war instead of running dry.
The Zaibatsu’s demand for more civilian factories was satisfied by building a single factory instead of the five it asked for, and it also inflated the Navy’s dockyard target if a dockyard demand was already running.
The Japanese Army’s demand for a larger army completed instantly if your army manpower sat between 1.9 and 2 million.
The Japanese Navy’s demands for more carriers and more battleships completed instantly if you already had between 11 and 17 carriers, or between 16 and 24 capital ships.
Taking any one of the Japanese Navy’s three shipbuilding demands permanently blocked the other two.
Failing an Imperial Faction demand no longer costs only influence. Each demand now carries the intended penalty scaled to what it asked for, so ignoring a major demand hurts more than brushing off a minor one.
The Zaibatsu’s economy law demand was weighted against your trade laws rather than your economy laws, so it appeared at the wrong times.
Austria-Hungary eating Czechoslovakia during a German invasion should be less likely.
Clarified that deep snow was giving both a speed modifier and an attack speed modifier.
Spain can no longer surprise France with a civil war. They can still, however, achieve surprise with the Spanish Inquisition.
The Philippines no longer force their own capitulation after the fall of Manila if they are leading a faction.
The French decisions ‘Rally the Leagues’ and ‘Unleash la Cagoule’ no longer remain available after France has restored the monarchy, where the AI would keep spending stability to push a fascism it had already rejected.
Fixes right click in lobby opening broken state view.
Fixes issue causing division’s combat width to be displayed based on equipment/manpower fulfillment.
Fixed a bug where heavy fighters could not generate aces.
INS: Freedom Fighter Militia template will no longer stay after the war ends.
Fixed all 103 flags missing their small variants.
SOV: Operations ‘Subtle Assassination’ & ‘Raid Trotsky’s Villa’ can now not be commenced simultaneously + added relevant missing loc strings.
Guard Air Defense focus AA construction with state control check.
GER: ‘Seize Gold Reserves’ decisions now work in annexed dynamic countries, such as those that appear due to a failed civil war.
ENG: Stops the USA Liberation Event from queueing when retaking London.
Let JAP’s ‘Pacific Guardian’ decisions target current controller.
RKB: Grant a core on Nord-Pas-de-Calais on legal transfer.
Fix wrong wargoal target and swapped text on Baltic refusal.
Granted British Aircraft Manufacturing focus ENG’s actual designed airframe.
Fixed Finno-Soviet Pact civil-war targeting and permanent soft lock.
PRC: ‘The Eastward Expansion’ can no longer be taken if no divisions are on the border, which previously caused an instant failure.
SIA: Focus ‘Asian Democratic Compact’ can no longer be taken as a puppet.
Fixed an issue where allies and puppets will sometimes ignore calls to war despite saying they will accept.
SWI: Gold Market national spirit and decisions fixes.
NZL: Fixed two missing focus completions for the 1939 start date.
COG: Fix to drop Belgian Congo cosmetics tag when released as puppet by any other overlord than BEL.
NZL: Focus ‘Expand the NZPAF’ creates a new Bristol Blenheim equipment variant which is now only made available when appropriate chassis has been researched; the equipment variant has also been made to match ENG’s Bristol Blenheim version.
‘Urge Non-Violence’ decisions are no longer available to India after it becomes independent.
Bangladesh now receives Princely State pressure and can compete for the princely states, and the partition tooltips no longer name India as the state being pressured.
The Libyan Desert now goes to whoever holds Sirte after a peace conference instead of staying with the winner of the Italian civil war.
Korean states left with a Japanese puppet after the peace conference now go to the Korean puppet of the same overlord.
Britain’s warning about war between India and Pakistan no longer kills Gandhi, and his assassination now shows its own event.
‘Hegemony of the Subcontinent’ now really requires India to out-build or out-research Pakistan instead of always being available.
Fixed the Philippines missing claims and coring decisions on many states in the Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Vanuatu, American Samoa and New Zealand.
Yugoslavia will behave less weirdly when puppeted by Italy.
Fixed multiple issues with ETH decision to take Djibouti.
Building support for a civil war in every Belarussian state no longer stops a Baltic player from coring the region.
Baltic players are now informed that accepting Soviet support will lead to them becoming a satellite.
European communist sympathizers no longer use Japan-specific symbology.
Baltic civil wars no longer pause from the Soviet civil war.
Soviet Union: ‘Found the COMECON’ is no longer bypassed after “Fourth Five Year Plan” without No Compromise, No Surrender enabled.
Poland: “Proclaim Slavic Unity” now also grants a core on Lubusz.
IRQ: ‘Proclaim the United Arab Republic’ now removes the Emir of Taif as king.
SIA: resource gain efficiency from ‘Agrarian Economical Policy’ focuses now properly applies.
PRC: Fixed ‘Bolshevik Urbanization II’ and the ‘PLA Ground Force’ spirit not applying their construction, factory efficiency and equipment capture bonuses.
The Achievement ‘Weltpolitik’ now requires Bougainville instead of the Solomon Islands, matching the colonies Germany gets back.
Fixed Mozambique’s population being far too small, increased it significantly to 4.25M.
The ‘The Good, the Bad and the Weird’ achievement conditions now match its description.
Fixed Croatian politician Nikola Mandic being misconfigured and never appearing.
Corneliu Codreanu, who died in 1938, can no longer lead Romania in the 1939 startdate.
Fixed the ‘Experimental Mechanized Unit’ focus in the shared Chinese tree not spawning the 200. Mechanized Division as intended.
Fixed a CTD that occurred when an event tried to access a participating country in a naval combat but it lost all ships.
Fixed characters with the anti-communist trait wrongly taking the communist side in the Baltic states.
Prevent the ‘Operation Iskra’ decision if the USSR is not independent.
Baltic focus ‘United Baltic SSR’ no longer fires a news event about all Baltics being unified when that may not have happened yet.
Greek Communist AI will avoid doing focuses that grant them wargoals on Axis members that they stand no chance to defeat.
Invest in Turkey decisions now properly give Turkey a relations boost with the investor, not the other way around.
Investment in Turkey now keeps potential enemy occupation of its states in mind.
Fix a broken trigger that caused AI to be unintentionally hesitant to invest in Greece.
Collaborationist Poland requesting autonomy from Germany no longer resets their occupation.
ETH: Ethiopia can no longer brazenly build forts behind enemy lines with ‘The Defense of Addis Ababa’ focus.
Fixed the event ‘The Question of Yugoslavia’ stemming from the UK ‘Balkan Strategy’ focus not actually requiring Yugoslavia to exist.
Fixed Francisco Franco wrongly being retired by the ‘Dismissal of Niceto Alcalá-Zamora’ event when La Resistance is not enabled.
Fix USSR ceding a Baltic state mid civil-war.
Fixed CTD when scrolling the map while selecting deployment target for a subject template division in training.
ARG: Made the Argentinean fascist focus ‘Support the Spanish Coup’ check that Nationalist Spain actually exists.
SIA: Can no longer surrender to a Japanese invasion after another nation puppeted them.
ITA: The focus ‘New Roman Citizens’ can no longer be taken when it’d have no effect due to no states with resistance activity.
Fixed the ‘Why Die for Danzig’ achievement wrongly being granted when you conquer France and release Vichy.
Fixed the Czech focus ‘Integrate Western Ukrainians’ being blocked if you gain a core on Stanislawow after forming the Central European Federation.
Fixed Manchukuo having 6 research slots (!) in the 1939 bookmark
Fixed invalid spawn locations for Chinese air units in the 1939 start
Made a few Baltic leader portraits free to fix them being broken without NSB enabled.
Fixed the shared faction spirit ‘Belgian Interpreters’ being removed and permanently unattainable thereafter if Belgium gains it while not a faction member.
Fixed Germany not being able to form Bourbon France during the ‘Triumph in France’ event due to an ongoing civil war with Free France.
Fixed French ‘Strengthen the Little Entente’ focus sending a faction invite to annexed Czech, if they didn’t change ruling party prior to annexation.
Fixed the Iraqi ‘United Kurdistan’ focus requiring control of East Azerbaijan, but not coring it upon completion like all the other prerequisite states.
‘War of Resistance’ in the non-NCNS Chinese focus tree now checks for all tiers of Army Corruption instead of only the first tier, which was confusing as all tiers share the same name.
Fixed Manchukuo having 6 research slots (!) in the 1939 bookmark
Fixed Latvia bypassing the ‘Seek Alignment with Germany’ focus locking them out of changing their ruling party without a civil war.
Although very progressive, the Swedish focuses ‘Centralized Nordic Army Command’ and “Decentralized Nordic Army Command’ now no longer sends invitations to join to countries at war with Sweden.
The ‘Importing War Production from Switzerland’ idea is now removed if you go to war with Switzerland.
Fixed Italian ‘Modern Musculus’ focus not granting a super-heavy tank chassis nor production line.
Fixes for Italy when both ‘Modern Musculus’ and ‘A Time for War’ are taken, but only the modifiers from the first one completed would take effect.
Fixed Haile Selassie having the ‘Imprisoned Emperor’ officer trait, even when not imprisoned.
Fix one of the Yugoslav civil wars not taking a relatively new state into account, leading to weird frontlines and encircled units.
Fixed completing ‘A Habsburg Alliance’ focus as Poland while ruled by Karl Albrecht I sometimes causing an instant game over while a member of a faction.
Fixed the ‘Join the Entente’ French focus allowing the UK to be invited, even if a Little Entente alliance has not actually been formed.
Fixed the German 1936 and 1940 Graf Zeppelin designs having reversed engine modules.
Removed an unusable research bonus for motorized tech in the 1939 Poland start.
The communist British focus ‘Follow Moscow’ will not ask the UK to join if the USSR has no faction.
Fixes with Götterdämmerung disabled, ‘Press the Habsburg Claim’ decisions caused auto-completion of a number of Hungarian focuses in the wrong order, wrongly awarding both the Hungarian Monarchy and Habsburg Rule Restore national spirits simultaneously.
Fixed Baltic Puppet nations still being able to ask for independence guarantees with their various ‘Request Support’ focuses.

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