mainly to assist the game Ai and to balance power of USSR a bit. esp. reflecting easier conquest of these territories after an attack of Germany and also the possibility to puppet them by Germany which would not be possible on how the AI works. also from political perspective: Belarus and Ukraine where official founding members of the UN beside the (rest of) USSR in 1945.
pre war the Red Army had divisions based on its memberstates, this is also reflected in this mod with different nationalities (iirc). Belarus and Ukraine are playing a special role in the history of the USSR incl. the time frame of this mod.
hope this answers your question.

why TF did you make Ukraine and Belarus seperate nations?

Does it still work?

its just ascenario, but with some extended modifications, vanilla versions remain unaffected

Is this coded as a scenario or as a Total Conversion mod (and can I still play Vanilla if I have it?)

Can i ask how did you connect the islands together? and is it possible to create a new region?

I can`t make planes lol...

I just tried that, took over china as japan, no "basic factory" :( so now i got to wait 200 to 300 turns for a cotton factory DX

that may be the case

just replaying this mod, Stiiiiill no "basic factory" in any city .3.

does it only appear in cities recently taken? that only have 1 IPU?

@LordZ

But Hearts of Iron 4 is extremely simplified and easy to play and also much different than this. In HOI4 you can even just draw a line and let your AI handle it and still win alot off times lol

Great mod keep up the great work, better version then the inital one.

thank you, i'm looking forward for recreating it with the new game

great mod :)

@Knopfdruckoffizier please do ^^

its annoying waiting 200 or 400 turns for a cotton factory lol

i`d need to check that...

also it appears there is no basic factory for recently conquered cities =(

i think cotton factory makes sense as that is what you get first for a 1 IPU's city, then work your way up?

please dont let this mod die or get removed, it makes this game so fixed its workable for me. and this is much easier for me than hearts of iron. this game is more of a learning for me to PLAY HOI4. =3

thnx <3

prerequisites should show ingame, look at the help pages, of course some advancements are needed, and i think a cotton factory too, but im not sure atm, haven`t touched it in a while...

btw this streamlined version mod you made is so needed <3 thanks

@ how would i unlock the labour service option? some cities dont have it =3

how do i unlock army, air and naval base? i'm talking about 5 IPU's cities?

build a cotton factory first? (I doubt I have to research somethign first?)

Army Base allows to produce Arms and special units

only have one building for special units and supply

and which is that? =3

arms production is still needed but you only have one building for special units and supply. goal was to reduce micromanagement a bit.

@Knopfdruckoffizier so this mod makes the game more balaced and a little easier?

+Disabled Aircraft Plant, Munitions Plant and Shipyard
+Renamed Air Force Academy, Military Academy and Naval Academy to Air Force Base, Army Base and Naval Base

so you got rid of the first 3 and made the other 3 academies new versions of the first 3?

+Army allows Arms
so i dont have to set my cities to produce arms instead of money anymore?

thnx for your nice lines, i'm really appreciating this :) of course i'm remembering the old MHII forums and so you :) really looking forward for the new MH:SSW. The dev already promised that it'll be the version close to what was intended for the original MHII. well, we will see :) Still thinking about further optimizing my mod, but sadly i don't find much time atm... Maybe it will return with the new game ;-)

Not sure if you remember "GenPershing" from the old MHII forums or not, but I felt the need to stop by and give my praises for your mod. In the day, we had to manually install these mods which, for newer players, seemed daunting. Nevertheless, THIS mod was the one you needed to have if you had any at all. All-in-all, I'm surprised you weren't offered a position at Muzzy Lane after creating this - seeing as you did as much (or more) work to finalize their product.

Wishing all the best from a friendly face!

Does this increase the playtime?

sup?

yes hello?

Oh, ha. Thanks. :P

Just the best: Notepad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org

Hey Knopfdruckoffizier, I was wondering what text editor you are using to edit the xmls. Thanks :)

so is ther anyway to alter mods we suscrbe too...

oh that sucks lol

maybe its due to the advaced changes i did, i never used the editor (even started the mod before the editor was available), just did all the stuff with a text editor changing the xmls :)

i was wondering that aswell

i have no idea how doesnt let me edit the mod

nice

you are free to modify the version you can get here

hi i was wondering if i could sumhow aquire a version of this mod to add sum things for my own personal play i want to make it so thers no alliances and change sum countrys to communism and facism i wouldnt be putting the mod up on steam like i said for my own personal use i just dont know how you added all the countrys and what not

thnx, btw im still around, having an update on my list, hope to get back to the mod asap :)

love it

Really good Mod, dude. Cheers

thanks for adding Menjiang! otherwise known as Mengekukuo


can you rename Manchuria to Manchukuo? which was its historical name

its a different solution, there is only one type of factory building allowed to balance the game a bit more. Cities with 500+ ipus are not possible in my mod.

Great mod. The only sticking point I have is, for some reason, it no longer allows you to upgrade the factories. I can't upgrade cottage to mech. and I can't upgrade mech to Large etc. Why is that?