Yunnan can now annex lands from any Chinese puppets that Siam might have, when Yunnan brings Siam to a peace deal. Fixed the members of the Belgrade Pact remaining majors when joining a faction. Finland's coring decisions are now compliance-neutral. Replaced `var:faction_leader` with the new `faction_leader` scope. Fixed the League of Eight Provinces keeping their national spirits related to German East Asia, when the latter has capitulated. Fixed an Ethiopian railway national focus being available when it should not be. The Ottoman Empire now starts with 1 military factory on support equipment. Fixed Northern Ireland being unable to join the Entente, despite both being at war with the Internationale. United Scandinavia no longer suffers from an inability to trade overseas. In all other cases theyll immediately declare war instead. Fixed the Fate of Sarawak event not transferring states to the Dutch East Indies correctly. Changed some national focuses which previously gave a wargoal, to now immediately declare war. Removed the unique leader for the Ma Clique puppeted by Manchu-led Qing. PatAut Germany is now able to deal with Black Monday without completing focuses of other political branches. The Left Kuomintang now gets a claim on Tawang in the Renounce the McMahon Lines national focus, if they already own the state itself. Slightly increased the chance of Patagonia agreeing to unite, if Argentina is SocLib or MarLib. Simplified some triggers in South America. Fixed Syria not being able to leave the Cairo Pact after becoming NatPop. Henri Guisan can no longer be elected General in NatPop Switzerland due to his Romand origins, and Syndicalist Switzerland will no longer elect a general. 0.12.2 brings you a whole host of bug fixes, along with a number of quality of life changes we know youll enjoy; GEA and Mittelafrika now once more start in the Reichspakt, weve restored the possibility of taking control of puppet forces (with exceptions) and much more. The Internationale now has access to exiled Russian Bolshevik military leaders, denoted by a special trait. Ireland's news events no longer fire if regional news events are disabled. Hunan has been given a temporary tree and a few decisions for the time being. Romania now only gets Alfld if they already have a claim for it. Added transport planes icons from By Blood Alone. Tweaked Greeces AI to declare war more often, if it is on the Expansionist path. Fixed all countries having Spanish music. Fixed Turkeys Yakup Kadri Karaosmanolu being available as an advisor to non-authoritarian Turkish governments. Fixed a bug being unable to properly release Chile in certain circumstances. Fixed missing text on a Don Kuban Union / Russia event. Fixed a potential oversight in Icelands game rules. Added three Aces (elite pilots) for Norway. The Zongshe Party is now PatAut (from SocCon), the Young China Party is now AutDem (from SocLib), while the NCERA is SocCon (from SocDem). Yunnans Kuomintang are a bit faster in progressing towards intervening in China to make up for the longer civil war. The results of Scandinavias elections are now influenced by the former ruling governments of its constituents. Fixed the recruitable manpower bonuses being too small, for various countries. The State Serves the Military national spirit is now available for Totalists and NatPops. Fengitan will now receive the option to cut industrial soy during the Great Drought sooner. Removed Germanys Imperial Pride starting national spirit. Fixed a few LKMT tooltips showing the wrong effect. The Khedivate of Egypt now has a red colour like the Ottomans, Leaders and parties across the different USA factions have now been standardized for the most part. Fixed socialist Argentina joining the Entente and Reichspakt. The Left Kuomintangs Dai Anlan is now a Mobile Warfare theorist, rather than Grand Battleplan. West Indies Federation RadSoc ministers now have the correct ideology. Iraq can core Khuzestan, even if Iran is the one to declare war first. Fixed South Africa being stuck with locked templates due to the Boer War. Central Asian tags may now be invited to the Co-Prosperity Sphere so long as they border one of its members. The United Kingdom no longer gets Service By Requirement upon spawning. Fixed a couple of loc bugs, Fixed INC not getting all of Indochina if they win against GEA, Fixed a bugged activation for the Wallonian release decision, Fixed a couple of broken scopes in QIE's events, Fixed the Sicilian ship decisions not appearing for Manchu QIE, Fixed Fengtian joining Japan's faction after breaking with them, Fixed the Qing ally integration decisions being visible after annexation of the respective tags, Fixed Siam stealing Lanzhou from the Ma Clique, Fixed the LEP being unable to reduce unrest if Zheyuan took control of Shandong, Fixed the multiple options of the Fall of Hong Kong event, Fixed CHI not getting cores on Guangxi when tag-switching from GXC, Fixed bugged terrains in the Dead Sea and Lake Okeechobee. Hejaz now gets a wargoal on SAU when seeking Arabian unification. PatAut Norway can now join the Moscow Accord, if the former does not border the Third Internationale, and Savinkov is leader of Russia. Reworked all starting navies to drastically reduce the number of capital ships, with a proportional reduction in screens. Added some railways to the area surrounding the Caspian Sea. Ongoing incremental improvements to AI peace conference behaviour. Added a tooltip to Greece, Germany and Austria, warning them about the consequences of seizing industries or applying sanctions. Fixed the population of Batumi being too low. Fixed Pastaza going to Ecuador instead of Peru in the annexation event. Fixed a Sichuan infantry template missing a support company. Fengtians national focus to Begin the War of National Reclamation is now available at the beginning of the game, and with less of a duration, but with conditions. Germany now starts with a claim on Ceylon, Diego Garcia and the Maldives. AI countries will no longer build above their unit limits when losing. Fixed Lithuania being couped by its own allies. Expanded Switzerlands national populist path, The Kaiser Wilhelm society now exists at game start, Germany is no longer locked out of the Walloon annexation event. Tweaked the AI of the Indian splinters so that they will focus more on the subcontinent. Pelley will now always refuse Quid Pro Quo (a player can still accept it). Updated the supply bonuses in two of Yunnans army national spirits. Fengtians Toward Japan national focus is now available if Tang Shaoyi is its leader. The existing RadSoc path also remains. Finland is now able to attack for its Greater Finland claims, even if the Nordic Federation has formed. Fixed Bulgaria annexing Thessaloniki without owning the surrounding states. Added bypasses to the Persian war focuses. Serbia should now attack Austria as soon as the latter joins the WK. Paraguay now gets a +5 to its division limit in both Black Monday paths. Updated several Ethiopian national spirit icons. Argentinas Naval Academy national focus will now give different effects, depending on the chosen approach. Warring tags present at the unification conference may be asked to end their wars by Zhang Zuolin. Fixed a Qing national focus availability. Fixed Cyrenaica from supporting countries that dont exist. Some fixes and improvements to the Chinese army reform system. Adaptation of Eastern Front Planes pack for Kaiserreich. Slightly improved the modifier given by Canadas Professional Army national spirit. Tweaked the ship types that some major naval powers should invest in. Fixed an edge case where socialist countries could join the Moscow Accord. Fixed Galicia & Lodomeria not being annexed by Russia, despite Austria acceding to Russian demands. Fixed Umar Mukhtar's death event not firing correctly for Cyrenaica, and him not being replaced as Head of Government upon death. The icon for the Ideological Loyalty spirit of the army no longer shows a picture of Karl Marx. Fixed two Bulgarian generals still being available as ministers after theyre purged, Fixed PatAut Brazil being unable to remove negative national spirits, Fixed the Swedish syndicalist flag which was not properly rendering, Updated the Colombian, Montenegrin and Venezuelan flags so they are now using the correct colors, Made some changes to the peace conference code which could cause a crash if too many countries were capitulating at the same time. Italian resource decisions are now tied to their respective national foci. Fixed the Persian-Russian peace deal firing instantly. Added victory points for Maribor and Bregenz in Austria. Multiple changes to Ethiopia - Swapped some focuses around to make more sense narratively, bumped up the debt debuffs but made the AI smarter, removed some starting techs, some idea balancing, reduced some focus times, tweaked some companies. Fixed the United States being able to request the return of a capitulated Hawaii. Rebalanced and reconfigured the code of the start of the Third Boer War. Added a tooltip letting a player know that the Reassess American Commitment national focus for New England, unlocks their intervention in the American Civil War. Kher, Charles Hamilton Boucher, Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, Francis Tuker, Ganga Singh, Geoffrey Scoones, Gurbaksh Singh Dillon, Hari Singh, Hastings Ismay, Herbert Fitzherbert, Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata, Khengarji III Sawai Bahadur, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, Madapati Hanumantha Rao, Maharaja Ranbir Singh, Mahmood Khan Durrani, Mir Dast, M.N. Fixed Latvia's peat decision having no effect. Fixed Hungary not getting its archduke back when puppeted by Austria. Fixed a broken Sichuan division template. Fixed Japan not being able to invite nations to their faction. Bhutan now starts with irregulars instead of standard infantry. Updated AI factors for the conscription laws. Chinese army reform is now represented by national spirits. Reworked the AI priorities for sending units to European frontlines. Iraq can now claim Diyarbakir if Egypt annexes Syria. Fixed the player being able to break Swedens content by not clicking the Black Monday event. Fixed Ceylon not being released correctly. Fixed the Fate of Singapore not firing for minor countries. Added leader descriptions to the Socialist Republic of Italy. Fixed the Legation Cities unrest mechanic values going into negatives. Fengtian will now join the Co-Prosperity Sphere to fight Qing if they have no potential allies left in China, and will ask Japan for help sooner. As an extra treat, 0.16.1 will also include the recently finished tag of Lebanon. Fixed a Japanese event causing TRM to annex Russia mid-war. Fixed the Serbian event to acquire planes not having any effects due to the targets not having Fighter 1s yet. Fixed Nasir Shah being retired in the wrong moment, breaking the rest of the events for the Kumul Khanate. Puppet Jabal Shammar can no longer join factions. Added Starodub as a new state in Ukraine, replacing Podolia. Changed the name of Irelands unobtainable NatPop leader from Patrick Belton to Pdraic Mille. Rebalanced Switzerlands New Order decisions to make it actually possible to secure the government and take Greater Switzerland. Added generic portrait sets for Central Asia. Siam no longer gets its fifth research slot as quickly. Centroamerica can now annex Costa Rica and Panama. Fixed the Donau-Adriabund merging with the Reichspakt twice. Fixed a few broken shadows on some National Spirit icons. Fixed Russia sometimes being unable to properly invite potential members into their faction. 1st: add_party_popularity 100 fascism. Fixed Qings decision to attack isolated warlords. Fixed a continuity error regarding the leader of Polands MarLibs. Replaced James Craig with Basil Brooke as the head of state for Ulster. The United States can now attack Germany properly if the latter has puppeted France and Russia. Fixed Mongolia starting with the wrong national focus tree. Stopped the Mexican AI from declaring war on non-neighboring countries. Fixed several bugs with Denmarks Scandinavian focuses. Added Manuel Barreto Risco and Jos Agustn Haya de la Torre as generals for syndicalist Peru. Anqing now can get Nanjing generals, if they appoint them as governors. Tennessee and North Carolina are now more likely to stay with MacArthur. It only needs Canada to have intervened in the ACW, it doesnt require that Canada own land to first return. Fixed Socialist Serbia being released as a puppet with the non-socialist puppet focus tree. Fixed a Qing event displaying incorrectly. Monarchist Burma is now actually referred to as a Kingdom, and has the correct flag. AutDemTurkey now will not join the Reichspakt if the Weltkrieg is already over by the time they have the possibility to join. Tweaked the effects of the Left Kuomintangs Popular Support national spirits. Tweaked the map colour for the Commune of France. Shandong - decision to hire mercenaries during the League War. CNT-FAI is now led by Buenaventura Durruti. Improved the trait for Qings V.K. Fixed several bugs involving the Fate of China annexation event. Clarified a late**game Commune of France tooltip. If you hover over the limit field at the top right of your Recruit & Deploy tab, youll see a tooltip that explains exactly how the limit is calculated. Fixed the Union of Britains RNS Warspite being called the HMS Warspite. Transylvania and Galicia can now ask their overlords to let them join Romania and Poland respectively. Fixed AuthDem Shandong being unable to remove the revolt national spirits. Fixed Serbia's Montenegro focus not requiring ownership of the state. Fixed Poland trying to restore Sikorski when he isnt there. The South African Federation and Southern Rhodesia can now join the Entente after winning the Boer War if the Entente abandoned them. The Netherlands Emancipating the Colonies national focus is now impossible if Insulindia revolted against the Dutch East Indies. Fixed some Lithuanian flavour events of the LKDP and LTS. AI Netherlands should now keep most of its fleet in the East Indies. Fixed the AI sending and immediately withdrawing volunteers. All intra-Chinese alignment is now represented by the puppet system. Ireland no longer starts with heavy tanks. The Socialist Republic of Italy now changes its map colour to green after a successful reunification. Austria now sends volunteers to Lombardy and Venice when they are at war with the SRI. Fixed two different Black Monday national spirits appearing in the German national focus tree. Added option for Joachim-led Georgia to join the Reichspakt after the start of the War in the Desert. Improved Turkeys AI in dealing with its state modifiers. Fixed Armenia joining Persias faction not working if Persia is already in a faction. Fixed Ukraine puppeting a rump Don-Kuban Union. Rocket artillery and motorized rocket artillery added to companies, Ireland now starts with an AuthDem Minister of the Interior, instead of NatPop. If the United Kingdom tries to demand Northern Ireland from Ireland, and Ireland is in a faction, but a reunited America is in the Entente, then the UK may try and pressure Irelands faction leader into getting Ireland to submit. Fixed Fengtian getting events about appointing Ma Zhanshan even after his defection. Tweaked Lithuanias Revolt and Loyalty paths to accomodate for a German victory and the return to puppet status if they revolt. Fixed and streamlined the Dutch East Indies random events. Added The Green Mountaineer for New England. Merged the exonym/endonym renames, and news event toggles, into a single user interface, located where the old exonym/endonym button was placed.. Rebalanced the AIs default unit templates. Added a supply hub to the Kumul Khanates capital. Removed the scripted localisation for the Halifax Conference tooltip. Fixed an unintended consequence of the Left Kuomintang turning Totalist too quickly. Bet you didnt see this one coming? As a replacement commander, added Aleksandre Dgebuadze as a Field Marshal. Removed several national spirits from Mittelafrika, and replaced them with other bonuses. Fixed Romania not joining the Moscow Accord because of Bessarabia, when they dont even own Bessarabia. It means that there are no longer hundreds of decisions being evaluated every game day to see if those missions are valid (for many users, resulting in a slight pause at the end of each game day as the game evaluates all those triggers). Fixed Qing returning to Beijing while still fighting Fengtian and Japan. Tropes relating to content in the vanilla Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg should go on its character sheet. Updated the Spanish states to more closely follow vanilla HoI4. Switzerland cancels mission if Haute-Savoie is already cored, Adjust South East Asia state dev level, Siams Electrification campaign actually matters, Removed compression artefacts from a lot of icons. Fixed some hidden effects from Australasian events showing up inadvertently. SocCons and AutDems are now part of a new Conservative Ideological Group, instead being part of Liberal and Reactionary, respectively. Fixed the Ottoman Empire not turning into Turkey correctly. Improved the logic for the unit limit calculations. Removed some debuffs from Shanxis focus tree. Added several Qing decisions allowing a withdrawal to Wuhan, including victory points, fortifications, and a maximum of six factories. Removed the Accademia Militare Milano company for the Italian Republic. Implemented a new state coring system for Siam. Split the effects of Japan's Imperial Glory national spirit across the Nanshin-ron and Seishin-ron national focuses. Fixed Christodoulos Tsigantes not being recruited for Greece. Donauadriabund Poland will no longer give Cernauti and Suceava to a hostile Romania. Kaiserreich now has its own implementation of Player-Led Peace Conferences and the State Transfer Tool. Effects/create faction | Hoi4 modding Wiki | Fandom Tweaked Indias AI so that it will declare for Aksai Chin less. Removed some RNG for the Ethiopian events asking Germany for aid, a guarantee or an alliance. Fixed the Siamese Parliamentarian rebels not getting the correct generals. Fixed the Italian Republics decision to rally supporters insta-cancelling. Tweaked the setup for Mittelafrikas economic recovery. The Belgium-Germany peace deal timer is actually started properly. Country Paths have had their regions rearranged and recategorised. Updated Dominican Republic national focus and national spirit icons. Syndicalist Chiles foreign policy converted from focuses to decisions. Fixed Mittelafrika not losing the The Mandates national spirit, after annexing the protectorates. AI Republican Poland is now more likely to align with Austria. Added many military Operation names for countries, a mix of vanillas list of names and original Kaiserreich names. Post Balkan War Defeat Bulgaria can no longer join factions if they take the opportunism route. Sweden is now comparatively less likely to go down the military rule / PatAut path, and more likely to go down the Socialist path. Fixed a Cambodian annex event not transferring land to German East Asia. Fixed socialist Bolivia/Peru-Bolivian Confederation attacking socialist neighbours. Fixed Jorge ONeills portrait not appearing for Ireland. Fixed Uruguay getting more than four ministers. Fixed the Germany/Internationale peace event disbanding the Reichspakt. Assyria no longer releases itself into oblivion. Swedish decisions to attack neighbours are now triggered by focuses. Made Savinkov Russia more likely to take Mobile Warfare. Added an annexation mission for Essequibo. Increased offensive war War Support loss to vanilla's -20%. Koiralam, Dhammalok Mahasthavir, Juddha Shumsher, Kaiser Shumsher, Kunwar Inderjit Singh, MP Koirala, Mutilal Gurung, Subarna Shamsher Rana, Tanka Prasad Acharya. Added a leader description for the United States Al Smith. Bolivia now tag-switches to Peru, when the Peru-Bolivia Confederation is formed. Wallonia can no longer turn SocDem if it is monarchist. Nerfed Yunnans land doctrine cost reductions. Added a new general for Georgia - Vladimir Goguadze. Nerfed some Germany in Exile national spirits. Given Armenia some manpower when the revolt starts. Dutch East Indies and Insulindia can no longer white peace with no border changes. Remove stability by using a negative number. Shortened the news event for the Dutch revolution slightly so it doesnt clip under the option button. Adjusted Zhang Zongchangs leader description. Fixed the United Kingdom being unrestorable by other members of the Entente. Releasing the splinters in another format exists primarily for the player to do so if they wish. Rewrote the Chinese annexation events, to prevent issues with countries being forced to annex it. Fixed hundreds of text spellings and inconsistencies. Fixed China getting claims on Mongolia/Tibet/Xinjiang before annexing them. The provinces around Nancy have been redrawn for less easy encirclements. Fixed AI Egypt not being able to sometimes invite Najd into the Cairo Pact. Fixed the capital relocation decisions for the Left Kuomintang. Fixed the Second in Command of a country not properly being referred by name in the text. Fixed Dutch East Indies getting two versions of the Army national spirit. When the Chinese Federalists puppet another clique, they will now also puppet the latters own puppets. Fixed the Ottomans inviting countries from other factions into the Association of Muslim Nations. Kerman state is now pastoral instead of a wasteland. If the Left Kuomintang are a puppet then they will only be able to take Army/Navy/Air national foci to prevent your puppet from doing major changes to their government (1st congress etc) without your knowing. Simplified and streamlined Ukraines foreign policy. Added Chen Jiliang as an admiral for the Left Kuomintang. Disable Germany/Canada companies for Socialist Iran. Fixed several unique classes of battlecruisers being defined as battleships. German East Asian capitulation will now remove any Tsingtau Collaboration national spirits from the League of Eight Provinces. Sdwestafrika now gates parts of its tree behind the players selection of Governor again. Fixed Greece causing an early war between the Entente and a non-socialist major, for when Greece lost the Fourth Balkan War and later attacks Bulgaria who has also joined a faction. Rebalanced the Combined Syndicates To the Bitter End national spirit. Added ability to continue focus tree for the liberal Ottomans, even when lacking support from enough representatives, at the cost of political power. Fixed the AI guaranteeing the independence of countries it should not. Authoritarian Bulgaria now releases Romania as SocCon, instead of AutDem. Fixed Germany not releasing Siberia or DKB properly. Decreased the stability loss for Totalist Left Kuomintang. Integrating Bucovina as Romania no longer requires ownership of Transylvania. Fixed MarLib Germany being locked out of its focus tree. Yunnans Tang Jiyao now turns AutDem when he aligns with the Federalists, and now betrays them less frequently. Northern Ireland will no longer refuse to rejoin the UK if asked. Fixed Jezavitau still being available as Chief of Staff in White Ruthenia, despite defecting. Fixed Transamur not claiming all of Central Asia properly. Fixed a CTD caused by Yunnan spawning divisions that it did not have the template for. Merged the three revolts against NatPop Brazil into one larger one. Fixed some slightly oversized national spirit icons. Improved the translations for the names of several Qing advisors. Nancy now starts the game owned by France. Decreased the factory output debuff that the United States has before the civil war. Fixed the Left Kuomintang not being able to negotiate with Yunnan if it has puppeted Lianguang. Fixed Nicaraguas missing general descriptions. Germany in Exile will now collapse if they take too long to recover the mainland. The decision, when used, will also increase the compliance rating in UoB states, PNG tag added for Papua New Guinea, as well as annexation decision, National France and Germany-in-Exile now recruit European spies, even though they are located in Africa. Siamese events will no longer refer to German engineers if Siam is socialist. A player can still attack, though it will incur a hefty PP penalty. Fixed the Ottoman Empire inviting Azerbaijan to the Istanbul Pact after Persia has already been defeated. Hearts of Iron IV. Fixed Siam losing its admirals in the civil war. Instead of Sultan Omer, Fahrettin Pasha now becomes the temporary leader of Turkey after his coup,until elections are held. PSA's leaders can join the primaries in the case of a peaceful reunion. Fixed the Third Boer War triggering twice. Updated the flag render for socialist Norway. Escalating the Propaganda War now doesnt talk about the Qing and Puyi when they arent in power. Fixed the Qing event that informed them of Yang Sens fall in Sichuan firing too early. Fixed Turkey moving the capital to Eskisehir instead of Ankara. Formation of PNL now triggers from the Great Reunion event and not from Renew Pride focus. Fixed Zhongchang's decisions being available to Nanjing, plus some optimisation. Nevada now flips to the PSA in the original War Plan White route. Added French endonyms for Guangzhouwan (Kouang-Tchou-Wan), Zhanjiang (Fort-Bayard), and Pondicherry (Pondichry). Fixed the West Indies Federation not having access to any focus tree when puppeted by the Entente. Fixed a number of states being wrongly transferred in the Armenia, Iraq and Ottoman annexation events. Fixed the Russian Denikin and Realpolitik game rules clashing. Emerging means that the party aligns with the Eastern . If Canada is invaded by anyone other than America or one of its allies, a non-socialist America will join the war in favor of Canada. Kaiserreich has a lot of content, and while weve done testing its more than possible there are special situations we havent yet noticed, or old content (like units being spawned) which never took into account the possibility of a division limit and which havent yet been adjusted. Notably, the production AI has seen many changes, which should translate into a more reactive and generally more fun to play against unit buildup. Added a news event for the collapse of the Third Internationale. Added Lderitz as a Victory Point for South West Africa. Mittelafrika will now play some African songs of its integrated colonies like Tanganyika! Fixed von Gring staying around after the Mittelafrikan collapse. Jabal Shammar no longer loses its claims on Arabia when re-puppeted by the Ottomans. Added a separate annexation event for Khuzestan, so that it now can be given to either Iraq or Persia. Fixed the Return Lands decision sometimes not transferring state control correctly. Austria no longer inherits all of its former crownlands' divisions upon unifying, but now receives a large temporary bonus to unit training, and still inherits their manpower and equipment. Fixed countries requesting naval advisors from a puppet Japan. AI majors will no longer refuse a Chinese player's weapons request if not threatened by a war. Added a new national spirit icon for the Left Kuomintang. Inter-Italian wars now have custom names. Fixed former Centroamerica countries freeing themselves from being a puppet by reforming Centroamerica. Fengtians Restore the 1923 Constitution focus now adds the Zhang and Communications Cliques to a coalition government. Czechia now joins the Belgrade Pact almost instantly in the Military Occupation path for Austria. Bolivia will now occupy the Bolivian Chaco if they intervene in the Argentina vs Paraguay/Chile/Patagonia war, and not declare war on Chile. Added Ma Dengying as a Second in Command for Anqing. Updated the Argentinean post-unification focus tree for Carles. Fixed Greece not getting Western Thrace if the Ottomans are controlled by a player who did not attack Bulgaria. You wont have any new nations to play today, but your old favorites will be that much more polished.