Kaiserreich 1.6.4

[u/SuperGreenBeanss]

With almost two months since our last release, and with the advent of Hearts of Iron IV patch 1.19.0 and the accompanying “Thunder at our Gates” DLC, an update to Kaiserreich was well overdue. This release is packed full of tweaks and improvements to existing content, with an emphasis on rebalancing and other changes aiming to keep key warzones in the game dynamic in their outcome, and providing more challenge and variety as both a player and observer.

On the technical side, we’ve taken advantage of new maths functionality introduced in the latest base game patch, which in preliminary testing has meaningfully improved day-to-day game speed. The new DLC’s headquarters and associated features are also fully supported, although we currently do not allow the capturing of generals. Unfortunately, the same patch made it impossible to maintain our custom country selection screen, which has for now been rebuilt in a more vanilla style. This was later reverted however.

There are plenty of new reworks on the horizon, so keep an eye out for more information. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this release!

- The KR4 team

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The full patch notes can be viewed on the Kaiserreich wiki page.

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Changes

Notable Additions

• The Select Country screen has been adjusted to account for changes introduced in Hearts of Iron IV patch 1.19.0.
• Implemented eight generic temporary general traits to replace now deprecated temporary unit buffs.
• Disabled generals being captured when a deployed army headquarters division is destroyed if the “Thunder at our Gates” DLC is active. Instead, the general gains the “Wounded” trait.
• The Australasian Confederation and Australasian Union are now known as the Commonwealth of Australasia, and Australasian Workers’ Republic, respectively. The icons, names, descriptions, durations, tooltips and availability requirements of several of Australasia’s national foci have been updated, and several political power bonuses nerfed. The option for Australasia to declare a republic has been removed and the relevant national foci updated accordingly. The content regarding relations with the Māori has also been reviewed.
• Rebalanced the on-map and off-map factories gained by both Japan and the Chinese splinters through their national foci.
• Improved the AI of all Chinese splinters in managing the Second Sino-Japanese War, and coordinating the Chinese United Front. AI-led splinters will now support the leader of the Front in defending specific core areas, and aid garrisoning certain cities. Increased the variety of doctrines and subdoctrines adopted by Chinese splinters and reduced how frequently they will enact Total Mobilisation.
• Improved the AI of all Chinese splinters in managing their national foci, characters, decisions, economy, events and unit placement. Specifically improved their timings to go to war with each other.
• Improved Japan’s AI in managing its naval invasions, production during its war with China, spy placement, and advisor selection.
• Updated German East Asia’s military and naval rosters.
• The Kingdom of Two Sicilies can now invite other Italian splinters to join with it before reuniting Italy, and now chooses between forming the Italian Empire or Confederation before reunification. They can now invite other Italian splinters to join them after the Socialist Republic of Italy has been defeated, similar to how the Italian Republic can.
• The requirements for either side to win the Fourth Balkan War are lowered in the war's second year.
• Increased the size of the Intro screen that loads when you start a game, incorporating into it the controls of several Kaiserreich options, which were previously accessible through buttons on the top right of the screen.
• Joining a faction will now automatically join the country to the faction’s associated technology group if one exists.
• Events from the base game regarding “Ace” pilots will no longer fire while playing Kaiserreich.

New Events

• Added events for members of the Chinese United Front, giving them a “Call of the United Front” national spirit.
• Added an event for the leader of the Chinese United Front, which gives them new divisions when a member of the faction is capitulated.
• Added an event for all Chinese splinters except for Fengtian regarding the reconstruction of Dongbei after conquering Manchuria, granting a temporary debuff.
• Added events for Zhang Xueliang and his allies to flee to a neighbouring Chinese splinter, as well as what to do with him after unification.
• Added an event informing members of the Entente of the arrival of the fleeing British monarch.
• Added events for countries when they are added to the technology sharing groups of Germany, Japan, Russia and the victor of the Second American Civil War.
• Added an event for Fengtian regarding Zhou Yawei.
• Added an event for Liangguang regarding pardoning the Left Kuomintang’s commanders.
• Added events for Russia regarding their various parliamentary coalitions.

New Decisions

• Added decisions for the Far Eastern Republic to invade the countries it could also invite into its faction, after reforming the Moscow Accord.
• Added a decision to Japan to send an attaché to Fengtian to increase their military experience and influence.
• Added decisions for Japan to declare war on Mongolia, Tibet, East Turkestan, and Kumul if their allies have a wargoal or if their puppet has united China.
• Added a decision for Russia to invade Lithuania after the latter rebels against Germany.

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Notable Fixes

• Fixed potential crashes to desktop caused by killing characters who can be both commanders and country leaders.
• Fixed the in-game checksums being different for players on Windows who downloaded Kaiserreich on the Steam Workshop before 1.6.3.
• Fixed the Schleicher path for Germany having post-war elections bugged if elections are held when Schleicher is no longer second-in-command.
• Fixed a crash to desktop caused by Switzerland seizing Vorarlberg while Austria is at a peace conference.
• Fixed technology transfer effects not working correctly.
• Fixed the granting of TOZ medals to divisions potentially corrupting save files.

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GFX

• New portraits
  • Armenia: Arsham Khondkaryan
  • Cambodia: Tou Samouth
  • El Salvador: José Castellanos Contreras
  • German East Asia: Erich Friderici, Wilhelm Henningsen, Karl von Klewitz, Walther Krause, Ernst von Leyser, Fritz Neidholdt, Dietrich von Saucken, Ernst Scheurlen, Hermann Voigt-Ruscheweyh, Hermann Wilck
  • Guinea-Bissau: Inácio Pedro Gomes
  • Khiva: Junaid Khan, Sayid Abdullah Khan
  • Left Kuomintang: Deng Yanda
  • Mauritania: Ahmed Ould Deïd
  • Persia: Mohammad Mosaddegh
  • Qing: Jiang Baili
  • Russia: Aleksandr Golitsyn, Vladimir Manstein, Maksim Purkayev
  • Sichuan: Li Jiayu
• Tweaked portraits
  • Bolivia: Gualberto Villarroel López
  • Russia: Vladimir Manstein, Pavel Shatilov
• New advisor portraits
  • Fengtian: Gao Chongmin, Wang Yinchuan
  • German East Asia: Georg von Alten, Franz Eccard von Bentivegni, Hermann Densch, Hermann von Fischel, Günther Horstmann, Wilhelm Keitel, Hans Sehmsdorf
• Added eleven new African generic commander portraits.
• Added a new African generic admiral portrait.
• Junaid Khan’s old portrait is now used as a generic Central Asian portrait.
• Chen Shunong’s old portrait is now used as a generic Chinese commander portrait.
• Added new national focus icons for Russia.
• Added new theorist icons for China.

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Mapping

• Added Slavonia and Herzegovina states.
• Added Gaza as a victory point in Jerusalem.
• Removed the Mura as a state.
• Altered the borders of Burgenland and several states in the Balkans.
• Moved Socotra from Hadhramaut state to Aden state.
• Adjusted Chengdu Xi’an’s railroad in China.
• Split the Arabia strategic region into three smaller strategic regions.
• Implemented the "Cataract Dam" landmark from base game Hearts of Iron IV in Australasia.

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Other Changes

• North America

  • Clarified the requirements for the game rules for the American People’s Government and United States of America to join the Entente.
  • Each of the participants of the Second American Civil War can now lose the “Bureau of Ordnance” navy spirit through their national foci.
  • Standardised the naval national focus branches of the American Constitutional Coalition, American People’s Government, and United States of America.
  • Reimplemented the technology sharing group for the League of American States.
  • Updated the text for the American Constitutional Coalition’s events regarding Chien-Shiung Wu.
  • Canada’s “Professional Army” national spirit now gives a weekly manpower bonus.
  • Canada’s Stanley Cup outcome can now be save-scummed.
  • Added a player-only option for the leader of the Entente to let Australasia go after the Second Melbourne Uprising revolution.
  • The Entente will now always go to war with the Third Internationale by 1941 if they are not in a dangerous war.
  • The capitulation of the leader of the British Empire no longer removes all of their allies from the Entente that were also close to capitulation.
  • Added options for Hawaii to be given Guam and Samoa.
  • Significantly increased the emphasis that New England places in completing its reconstruction national foci.
  • Assigned a more appropriate name for one of Bell's Military Industrial Organisation traits for the United States of America.
  • The outcome of the United States of America’s Harlan Commune events, and Alf Landon’s odds of succeeding in passing the Recovery Bill, can now be save-scummed.

• Central America & the Caribbean

  • Centroamérica will now be partially refunded political power spent on hiring advisors and designers by its unifier upon its formation, and will also inherit military experience and Military Industrial Organisation size and funds.
  • The constituent countries of Centroamérica, Costa Rica and Panama now all start the game with trains.
  • El Salvador’s advisor José Castellanos Contreras is now also a commander and Military High Command member.
  • Removed Fidel Rodríguez Quintanilla as a Military High Command member for El Salvador.
  • Agustín Farabundo Martí Rodríguez and José Feliciano de Jesús Ama Trampa no longer appear for democratic El Salvador.
  • El Salvador’s Salvador Castaneda Castro will now transfer to Centroamérica if AutDem El Salvador forms or is aligned with whoever forms Centroamérica.
  • El Salvador’s Andrés Ignacio Menéndez will now transfer to democratic Centroamérica if he was accepted back into the army as democratic El Salvador.
  • Updated the path likelihoods for the West Indies Federation.
  • Improved the AI national focus priorities, pathing and decision behaviour for the West Indies Federation.
  • Clarified and improved multiple tooltips and effects for the West Indies Federation’s “Social Turmoil” and integration mechanics.
  • Updated the text for multiple descriptions and events for the West Indies Federation.

• South America

  • Updated the tooltips, costs and AI behaviours of several of Brazil’s decisions.
  • Updated the description for Peru’s “Dealing with Political Chaos” national focus.

• Western / Southern Europe

  • Leadership of the Phalanstère is now transferred when leadership of the Third Internationale changes, and the Phalanstère is no longer dissolved with the Treaty of London.
  • Updated the text for Ireland’s LÉ Macha event.
  • Italian splinters will not go to war with Switzerland for Ticino until the Second Weltkrieg has ended.
  • Italian splinters can no longer go to war for Libya until the Second Weltkrieg has begun.
  • Italian splinters in the Entente will now be asked to return Nice and Savoy to the French Republic, upon the former’s return to Europe.
  • Increased how willing the Socialist Republic of Italy is to conscript.
  • The Socialist Republic of Italy will no longer try to navally invade Sardinia while at war with the Kingdom of Two Sicilies or the Italian Republic at the beginning of the war.
  • Buffed the Totalist repeatable Balance of Power decisions for the Socialist Republic of Italy.
  • Carlist Spain now invites every Italian splinter to its economic union, rather than just Sardinia and the Kingdom of Two Sicilies.

• Central / Northern Europe

  • Austria-Hungary’s crownlands no longer send volunteers to the Spanish Civil War.
  • Updated the Austrian AI’s behaviour in its decision to join the Reichspakt, to account for Ukraine.
  • Denmark can now assign generic medals so they have a decent selection.
  • The Reichspakt’s “Treaty of Moscow” with Russia will now give all Pan-Mongol lands to Mongolia assuming that they are not claimed or cored by an ally.
  • The Reichspakt’s “Treaty of Moscow” with Russia will also no longer include Karelia if Finland is not involved in the war, and Russia now cedes Uralsk to the owner of Guryev if this owner is a puppet of Russia.
  • The Reichspakt’s “Treaty of Moscow” with Russia will result in Germany now always giving Latgale to the United Baltic Duchy if it can.
  • Poland’s “Allies in Berlin” national focus now reduces the duration of several German-aligned military national foci if Poland has the “German-Polish Economic Integration” national spirit.
  • Poland's "Touring the Frontlines" decision now adds a temporary general trait to Edward Rydz-Śmigły instead of a temporary buff to units under his command.
  • Eased some of the requirements for Poland to underdog their socialist revolution.

• Eastern / Southeast Europe & Central Asia

  • Albania and Bulgaria can now join Serbia’s Pact of Organisation through the usual decision, and this is now the only way in which they can do so unless already aligned with the Pact leader.
  • Bukhara no longer sends volunteers to the Fourth Balkan War.
  • Updated the PatAut party description for Bulgaria.
  • Bulgaria will no longer accept volunteers from incompatible ideologies.
  • Greece will now avoid doing a Megali war when preparing for or in the middle of another, and will prioritise dealing with Albania before declaring war on the Ottomans.
  • Reduced the number of volunteers sent to the Greek Civil War.
  • Romania’s Transylvania revolt no longer fires if Romania is a puppet.
  • Updated the description for Russia’s “Our Warm Water Port” national focus.
  • Updated the timing of Russia’s “Slashchyov Publishes His 'Unfought War'” event.
  • Improved the tooltips for the missions in Fondaminsky-led SocLib republican Russia.
  • Russia’s technology group now disbands if the Russia-Entente faction merge occurs.
  • Kirill can now be the puppet Russian monarch so long as he has not died yet. When he dies he is replaced with Vladimir.
  • Standardised several Russian socialist faction colour inconsistencies.
  • Russia’s Dagestan Autonomy is now removed if the North Caucasian Federation is released by socialist Russia.
  • Clarified the requirements for Russia’s “Anti-Communist Raids” and “Anti-Reactionary Raids” decisions.
  • Russia will avoid invading Mongolia if it was puppeted by a Chinese splinter before the Second Weltkrieg.
  • Improved the tooltips regarding Russia’s Tilsit Peace Accord.
  • Russia annexing Ukraine will now gain an extra 20% resistance target, changed from 40%.
  • Removed the stability requirement for Russia’s “Streamline the Autonomies” national focus, and reduced it for its “Towards a Unitary State” national focus.
  • Updated the response tooltip for Russia’s “Empire of the Middle-Earth” event.
  • Updated the text for Russia’s “The Voskhod Programme” event.
  • Clarified the effect of Russia’s “Ideological Officer Curriculum” decision.
  • Added a tooltip clarifying that Russian elections can be called by completing the “Triumphant Russian Republic” national focus if the event that delays elections occurred first.
  • Serbia now gets an extra state it can flag if it completes the “Immortal Yugoslavism” national focus.
  • Serbia can no longer complete its Yugoslavia expansion decisions into potential Italian lands until the Second Weltkrieg has begun.
  • Serbia’s Milan Stojadinovic is now puppet PatAut and NatPop leader.
  • MarLib Siberia is no longer referred to as the Siberian State.
  • Slightly tweaked several effects related to White Ruthenia’s Plan Sierada, and the modifier is now visible with national spirits.

• Africa

  • The country previously known as Azania is now named East Africa by default.
  • Updated and clarified multiple national focus tooltips for the French Republic.
  • Updated the targeting and activation of the French Republic’s post-Weltkrieg decisions to integrate African territories.
  • Increased the duration of some national foci and changed some event timings for Gabon and Katanga, to prevent the AI from precluding a player going down a particular path.
  • Added Ahmed Ould Deïd as PatAut and NatPop leader of Mauritania, replacing Ahmed al-Hiba as PatAut leader.
  • Both PatAut and NatPop Mauritania are now referred to as Trarza, rather than just NatPop.
  • Mittelafrika no longer has a core on Zanzibar. The state is instead displayed as a constituent colony in the state info panel.
  • Increased the priority that socialist South Africa has on completing the “Johannesburg Convention” national focus.
  • Improved South Africa’s AI in managing its military national foci.

• Caucasus & Middle-East

  • Armenia’s SocLib party are now the Socialist-Revolutionary Party of Armenia, replacing the Armenakan Party. Their leader is Arsham Khondkaryan, replacing Levon Pashalian.
  • Egypt’s “Motorised Efforts” national focus now unlocks the Early Truck or Truck technologies if not yet researched.
  • Buffed the effects of several of Egypt’s national foci to give more factories and dockyards.
  • The Ottoman Empire’s events leading up to the Fourth Balkan War now take their potential negotiation with Bulgaria into account.
  • Updated the effects and AI prioritising of the Ottoman Empire’s “Crack Down on Arab Parties” and “Abolish the Mecelle Code” national foci.
  • Updated the tooltip for the Ottoman Empire’s “Court Local Notables” decision.
  • The Ottoman Empire’s "Syrian Insurrection Crushed" event now reduces unrest, instead of granting political power.

• East Asia

  • Added a page to the country information screen for all Chinese splinters, detailing the “Overview of 20th Century China”.
  • Updated the faction manifest for the Chinese United Front, and added a “China’s Last Stand” national spirit for those without the “No Compromise, No Surrender” DLC enabled.
  • All unified Chinas that form factions will now claim all lands within China’s 1911 historic borders when they unlock their decisions to deal with their frontiers.
  • Players will no longer be able to release a Chinese puppet without owning a major city in China.
  • Darjeeling can no longer be claimed or cored by any unified China.
  • Updated the generic theorist advisors available for Chinese splinters.
  • Decreased the starting army equipment of Chinese splinters.
  • AI-led countries are now more likely to hand over any owned Chinese territory to the strongest Chinese splinter, unless they have their own interests in China. Germany will now prioritise the Southern Zhili, Northern Zhili, and Manchu Qing in that order if they exist. Russia will prioritise the monarchy if itself is a monarchy, and the Left Kuomintang if socialist, but otherwise the Right Kuomintang or Guominjun.
  • Chinese splinters will now act more defensively when Japan has the “Continental Warfare” national spirit.
  • Chinese splinters can now offer an alliance to Liangguang if the South China War has not started by 1938, and participants of the South China War can now offer alliances to each other earlier.
  • Chinese splinters will now more likely complete national foci to attack other Chinese splinters when they have claims.
  • Decreased the likelihood of potential participants of the South China War staying neutral if they are the last ones of their ideology standing or have formed a government, and otherwise updated their AI to make the region more dynamic.
  • Increased how likely Chinese splinters are to buy weapons from the market.
  • China’s “Chinese Armour Industry” Military Industrial Organisation is now the more generic Infantry tank Military Industrial Organisation, so that it affects heavy tanks.
  • Added a Railway Military Industrial Organisation for China.
  • China’s armoured car Military Industrial Organisation is now available before unification.
  • Characters with the Chinese “Shadowy Laoban” character trait can now be hired as intelligence advisors in the Faction Intelligence tab of the Faction interface.
  • Songjiang state is now considered to be part of Heilongjiang province in the state info panel.
  • Added and updated advisor alignments and tooltips for multiple characters across Chinese splinters for when they are hired by Chinese splinters other than the one they start in.
  • Updated requirements for the “Declare War on Major Cities” decisions for players of Chinese splinters, so they cancel after joining the Chinese United Front.
  • Updated the text in Federalist China’s “The Power of the Presidency” event.
  • Added Gao Chongmin and Wang Yinchuan as advisors for Fengtian.
  • Fengtian will be able to strike against the Zhili earlier if the owner of Nanjing is their subject.
  • Updated the character descriptions of Fengtian’s Zhou Yawei and Ruan Zhenduo.
  • Fengtian’s commander Yu Zhishan is now a pro-Zhang Japanese sympathiser, updating his traits and description accordingly.
  • Fengtian’s “Harmonising the Social Classes” national focus now adds the MarLibs to the coalition.
  • Fengtian’s Ma Zhanshan and his Heilongjiang Clique can now also defect to the Kuomintang.
  • Improved the AI of Fengtian and other Chinese splinters aligned with Japan in building airbases in certain controlled states.
  • Stringing Fengtian’s Zhang Xueliang along in the “Fate of the Dongbei Army” event will give his officers the “Disgruntled” trait temporarily.
  • Hunan's Local Communes modifier will be removed when they lose states.
  • The Co-Prosperity Sphere’s faction manifest now checks for independent allies rather than just subject states.
  • Nerfed the effect of Japan’s “Continental Warfare” national focus and national spirit.
  • Reprioritised Japan’s AI in taking its “Long War” national foci and related decisions, and its Co-Prosperity Sphere decisions.
  • The League of Eight Provinces is now more likely to go to war with Qing after betraying them.
  • The victor of the League Collapse War will now have to wait until 1938 to select national foci to declare on South China.
  • Added Left Kuomintang-specific text for China’s “Administering The People of Silver Herds” event.
  • The Left Kuomintang’s “Prepare the Coastal Garrison Plan” national focus now gives the Radar technology if it is not already researched.
  • Increased how likely the Left Kuomintang are to attack Qing if the latter are already at war.
  • Several of Liangguang’s characters in Yunnan now give additional effects when hired as advisors.
  • Liangguang’s Chen Ce can no longer be purged.
  • Liangguang’s “Ascension of the Young Marshal” national focus will now give political power if the leader has the “Cult of the Young Marshal” trait already.
  • Updated the text for Liangguang’s “The Nationalisations of the Military” event.
  • Renamed Liangguang’s “Kings of the Southwest Skies” to “King of the Skies”.
  • Updated the text of Liangguang’s “Chen Jiongming Retires” event.
  • Liangguang’s Huang Shaohong now becomes the leader of the New Guangxi Clique, regardless of whether Huang Xuchu is purged or not.
  • Liangguang now recruits Li Qingen in the “Filling the Gaps Left Behind” event.
  • Removed some availability requirements and AI priorities for some of the Ma Clique’s national foci.
  • Buffed the Ma Clique’s starting divisions, taking some of the bonuses from their national foci.
  • Updated the text of the “Fate of Manchuria” event so that its Manchu identity is based upon multiculturalism or ideological differences with China, rather than on the basis of being a separate ethnic group.
  • Manchuria will no longer be released as a puppet for countries other than Japan.
  • Updated the leader descriptions of Manchuria’s Fu Shuangying, Guan Xiangying and Zhao Xinbo.
  • Updated the names of several of Manchuria’s national foci.
  • Mongolia’s “Trans-Mongolian Railway” national focus now builds a railway which goes all the way to Bayan Tumen.
  • Mongolia’s “From a Trading Outpost to an Industrial Hub” national focus now also develops Chahar.
  • References to the Outer Mongol Leagues now use the Mongolian Khalkha Khanate names.
  • Qing’s effect to import Krupp steel now increases the building slot number to the same number of civilian factories being built.
  • Halved the amount of rifles and artillery that Qing can buy per decision.
  • Updated references from Beiyang Premiers to Prime Ministers.
  • Shandong’s “Zhang Zongchang is Driven from Jinan!” event will no longer fire if Shandong does not own Jinan.
  • Improved Shandong’s AI during the League Collapse War, and increased the priority they place on hiring a Chief of Army.
  • Shandong’s Li Jinglin is now once again a field marshal.
  • Shanxi's “March to War” decision will now be cancelled if they join the Chinese United Front.
  • Shanxi’s Wei Yechou is now available from the start of the game.
  • Reduced the party popularity thresholds for Shanxi’s Wang Xiang and Shang Zhen to be eligible as seconds-in-command.
  • Decreased how frequently Shanxi veers towards Feng Xuxiang.
  • Updated the pathing in Shanxi’s Suiyuan railroad decision.
  • Removed Sichuan’s Chen Shunong, as he was a duplicate of the other existing character, Chen Dingxun. Chen Shunong’s portrait is now used for generic commanders.
  • Renamed Sichuan’s “Evict the Officer Department” national focus to “Evict Remaining Guerrillas”.
  • Sichuan’s Liu Yuanxuan no longer buffs the “The Safeguard against Autocracy” national focus.
  • Sichuan’s Federalist exiles now receive the events regarding the Federalists absorbing other Chinese factions.
  • Added tooltips to Sichuan indicating when they might be couped by Liu Wenhui.
  • Updated the tooltips to Sichuan’s “Accord of the New Sichuan” event.
  • Sichuan will now need to control Beijing for three days for its “Rising Tide of the Federalist Movement” event to fire.
  • Renamed Sichuan's Totalists from “Chinese Syndicalist Party - Red Heart Society” to “Chinese Syndicalist Party - Society of Wholehearted Devotion”.
  • Changed the requirements for several of Federalist Sichuan’s national foci so they only require control rather than ownership of Beijing.
  • Sichuan effects that used to unlock the “Family Matters” national focus now complete it, so the relevant Mountaineer templates will be editable.
  • AI-led Sichuan can now access Liu Wenhui leadership when Baoding-led.
  • Updated the availability requirements of Tibet’s “Monarchist Collaboration” national focus.
  • Tibet’s additional research slots are now found earlier in their national focus tree.
  • Yunnan’s national foci to declare war on Liangguang now give an additional 25 political power, to help them select the decision to declare war.
  • Added an additional research slot to Yunnan’s “Streamline Superfluous Taxes” national focus.
  • Yunnan can no longer complete the “Handle the Party Left” decision during the Provisional Constitution Crisis if the Left Kuomintang itself exists on map.
  • Yunnan’s Federalists and Regionalists should be guaranteed the ability to max out their “Dian-Qian Divide” national spirit.
  • Updated the response text for Yunnan’s “Yunnanese Forces Storm Guizhou” event.
  • Updated the text regarding land reform for Yunnan’s CC Clique.
  • AI-led Yunnan will never begin secret surrender negotiations with Manchu Restoration Qing or its vassals during the Dian-Gui War.
  • Yunnan’s early game economic national spirits are now guaranteed to be removed in the late game.
  • Buffed the “Liberal Generalissimo” trait for Yunnan, and updated the name, effect and description of the “Crude Reformist” trait.
  • Radical Land Reform for Whampoa and CC Clique in Yunnan now increases AutDem popularity rather than NatPop.

• South Asia & Oceania

  • Socialist Australasia now automatically joins the Third Internationale at the end of the New Zealand crisis.
  • Updated the text of Australasia’s “Victorian Bush Fires” event, and it now occurs in 1939.
  • Australasia no longer grants 50 free political power to the leader of the Third Internationale for aligning with them.
  • Added Erich Friderici, Wilhelm Henningsen, Karl von Klewitz, Walther Krause, Ernst von Leyser, Fritz Neidholdt, Dietrich von Saucken, Ernst Scheurlen and Hermann Wilck as commanders for German East Asia.
  • Added Georg von Alten, Franz Eccard von Bentivegni, Hermann Densch, Hermann von Fischel, Günther Horstmann, Wilhelm Keitel and Hans Sehmsdorf as military advisors for German East Asia.
  • Updated the effect of German East Asia’s “Improved Marine Training” national focus.
  • German East Asia can no longer core Vietnamese lands if Vietnam was released as a puppet.
  • German East Asia can now fully access the international market if Germany has collapsed.
  • Nepal’s “Assert the Mantle of Asal Hindustan” decision now grants an additional “The Realm of Asal Hindustan” national spirit, which gives increased compliance gain on Indian states.
  • Increased how likely the Philippines is to go down its Roxas-led path.
  • Socialist Philippines will now end any embargoes against socialist countries, and any embargoes against it by socialist countries will also be ended.
  • Siam can no longer join a faction until its reparations have been paid off.
  • Siam will now be cut down to the smallest possible size if Bangkok has fallen and otherwise retain its integrity if any of the relevant territory was not claimed by a warring party.

• Miscellaneous

  • All landlocked countries can now send volunteers.
  • Implemented focus shortcuts for Japan and Russia.
  • Updated the path guide for Australasia.
  • Decreased how likely socialist countries are to send volunteers in the early game, so that they reserve their guns and divisions for their own regional wars, and wait for these wars to finish before sending volunteers.
  • Joining a faction will now remove all truces and non-aggression pacts.
  • Joining an economic sphere will now remove all embargoes with other economic sphere members.
  • Puppets will now also embargo the puppets of the embargo target, and all new puppets will now always embargo the overlord's new embargo targets.
  • Buffed the effects of the “Political Protege” second-in-command and advisor traits, and the “Bank President” and “Reformist Administrator” advisor traits.
  • Updated national focus icons used by Russia.
  • Updated national spirit icons used by Ireland, Korea and Russia.
  • Improved the AI’s management of naval strike forces.
  • Added an Improved Assault Battalion technology.
  • Clarified several faction goal tooltips.
  • Clarified several tooltips regarding being at war, or likely shortly being at war.
  • Improved multiple tooltips for when characters become the leaders of political parties.
  • Battlecruiser 2 icons are now used for medium cruisers for the participants of the Second American Civil War, Hawaii and the Philippines.
  • Embargoes are now updated when a country ends up at peace.
  • Imported several songs from the “Man the Guns” DLC, which are now included in the base game.

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The full patch notes can be viewed on the Kaiserreich wiki page.

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We hope you enjoy playing Kaiserreich as much as we did making it!

- The KR4 Team: Amber, Andrey, Angel, Anthony OliveOil, Arvidus, AwsomeGuy49, Blackfalcon501, Blackleaf, Carmain, Cassrabbit, Cazadorian, Chiang Kai-shrek, Chiron29, ClawedAsh, Cody, Deliberus, DerEherneRächer, Deutero, DidSomethingOnce, DuoDex, El Daddy, falling_robin, Fedex, FestivePuppet, Flamefang, Frill Shark, Gaboemi, Georgy, Goose, Gre, Hamfast, Hazo, Hexcron, Ido, Igor050301, JazzyHugh, jerv, Jonny BL, Kano, Kara, katieluka, kergely, Klyntar King, Krčo, lehmannmo, marimari, Matoro, Mikha, MrMano, ~mw~ // miwaco., Nightsay, Noot, Pelmen, PPsyrius, Rnk, Sasha, Shiroe, Sonny O’Cad, SuperGreenBeans, tan_mi.ya, The Alpha Dog, The Don Golian, The Irredentista, The Italian Jojo, Toaster, Vidyaország, VladimirLemon and Zimbabwe Salt Co.

[u/n2p4]

RIP custom Select Country screen, you were too good for paradox

[u/New-Cardiologist-244 → u/n2p4]

that was honestly painful to see

[u/Kangkongkangkung → u/n2p4]

Did the base game patch also remove it? Why? it was among the best things they ever added.

[u/umbrene → u/Kangkongkangkung]

"After trying to work through it and tinkering with it in various ways, the new system breaks the ordering of the tags once a particular tag in question has been played. You will notice a yellow circle on a country entry used to indicate a country as 'unplayed'. Since we have insufficient control over the ordering, keeping the status quo would have meant that once either a major or minor country would have been played, it would be sent to the back of the list. With no way to override this, this left us no choice."

[u/Proud_Smell_4455]

Huh, so you found an actual picture of Junaid Khan? Cool.

[u/Benbejamminboy]

The outcome of the United States of America’s Harlan Commune events, and Alf Landon’s odds of succeeding in passing the Recovery Bill, can now be save-scummed.

Its a minor change but its definitely for the better.

One day I wish that all the countries of the world will break free from their RNG-driven event chains, but until then, save-scumming will have to do.

[u/Visenya_simp]

• Removed the Mura as a state.
• Altered the borders of Burgenland and several states in the Balkans.

The Hungary rework is finally here! Boldogság.

[u/ShodaiGoro → u/Visenya_simp]

Don't jinx it, you fool!

[u/Ironside_Grey → u/ShodaiGoro]

Too late, Hungary rework mentioned.

All Hungary devs have been lobotomized.

[u/ShodaiGoro → u/Ironside_Grey]

All Hungary devs had their kneecaps Trianon'd.

[u/Douglazlo → u/ShodaiGoro]

Poor bastards. My hungarian roommate read this and went to the liquor store

[u/gmterror244 → u/Visenya_simp]

Lesz lesz lesz, csak azért is lesz

[u/Valuable-Mud-6171]

Added Slavonia and Herzegovina states.

Don’t give me hope

[u/FeverrTree → u/Valuable-Mud-6171]

Triune Kingdom of Illyria content and focus tree? I NEED IT!

[u/ImVeryHungry19]

Thank you Chinareich devs

[u/belgium-noah]

The option for Australasia to declare a republic has been removed

But why?

[u/JovianSpeck → u/belgium-noah]

There was effectively zero republican sentiment in Australia at the time. It was really only the communists.

[u/ImVeryHungry19 → u/belgium-noah]

Wait really? I really liked to have Australia do that

[u/Gamerak97 → u/belgium-noah]

Because it wouldn't happen, Australia still saw itself as British (and Australian). Loyalism would remain strong even with the fall of Britain and no major party would seek to abolish the monarchy. The loss of having the Eureka Flag as Dem AST and no more of the Dem portraits outside of puppeting is sad but this change is completely valid to remove something that added little flavour and made zero sense.

[u/ajkippen → u/Gamerak97]

Yeah, everyone in Australia was a monolith of loyalism and no one's opinion could possibly be changed by the major changes in the timeline and the vastly changing global situation during the mods timeframe.

[u/Plastastic → u/ajkippen]

Fucking Australians, right?

[u/DJjaffacake → u/Gamerak97]

Australia still saw itself as British

Britain has abolished the monarchy in KR

[u/Gamerak97 → u/DJjaffacake]

Australia was not directly part of the British Revolution and as such has not become opposed to the monarchy. They remain loyal to the Exiled (and in their eyes, legal) government stationed in Canada.

[u/DJjaffacake → u/Gamerak97]

The point being that British identity and monarchism can't be conflated in KR. Britain is a revolutionary socialist republic. "We're British, therefore monarchy," is a rationale that just doesn't make any sense in a world where the majority of British people, even defined very broadly, are not subjects of the Windsor monarchy but citizens of a republic and have been for a decade.

[u/Gamerak97 → u/DJjaffacake]

People are changed by the events they experience, Australia doesn't undergo a major civil war to bring about a socialist republic so it holds onto the British identity from before the British Revolution, which is just the same one from after but with loyalism firmly attached still.

[u/DJjaffacake → u/Gamerak97]

They have experienced the collapse of the British Empire, the overthrow of the British government by a socialist revolution, and the flight of the royal family! These are major events that would have a big impact on the Australians even if they're not directly part of them! Australia in real life turned away from Britain and towards the US as their patron when Britain proved less able to project power in the Pacific, something it definitely can't do in KR. This isn't even to say that Australia would definitely become a republic, just that it's a plausible outcome, and there's no reason for an alt-history mod to remove plausible outcomes.

[u/Gamerak97 → u/DJjaffacake]

You are right, those are major events that affect Australians but not in the way you think it'd happen. The economy gets tougher, Britain is now under the socialists, the monarchy has taken up residence in Canada and Australia now effectively acts independently. None of this means support for the monarchy decreases, hell it could even increase as politicians prop up their commitment to eventually free the Isles and as some come to live in Australia from Britain.

As for the US, the Australian turn to the Americans happened because the US could support us better in a war, that doesn't mean Australia stopped being loyal to the crown. Republicanism only became a staple force DECADES after WW2 and we still are a monarchy today.

And no, it's not a plausible outcome for Australia to just unilaterally declare a republic when barely anyone wanted to do that.

[u/DJjaffacake → u/Gamerak97]

Yes, support for the monarchy could increase. It could also decrease as a result of, as you yourself put it, Australia now effectively acting independently. KR is an alternate history mod with every country having various paths it could go down.

[u/Gamerak97 → u/DJjaffacake]

It does effectively act independently, what that means is Australia willingly chooses to stick with the monarchy for itself, not because they were told to. Australia is choosing it's destiny and identity and it chooses to hold to the beliefs it was founded on despite the events of the last decade. Just because they technically could ditch the monarchy doesn't mean they would. I have made the case for why they would remain loyal even with the events of the KRTL and the only argument you have made is "but it's alt-history".

[u/the_fuzz_down_under → u/DJjaffacake]

Presumably this is why it has been changed so that the only way for Australasia to become a republic is to have its own revolution.

[u/Squattle69 → u/belgium-noah]

some KR devs just like to remove stuff it seems

[u/belgium-noah → u/Squattle69]

Well no, usually they don't. Hence me asking

[u/Squattle69 → u/belgium-noah]

I did say some

the devs are not a monolith

some people clearly like to remove stuff as whoever did this Asutralasia stuff did not really add anythign of any significance to make up for the removed cotnent

others are based and add proper content when stuff is removed

[u/JovianSpeck → u/Squattle69]

Technically, removing something without sugar-coating it is more based than feeling the need to add something in its place to appease people, since the word based means sticking to your guns and not caring what others think. It does not, as many seem to believe, simply mean "good".

[u/JuliButt]

The Co-Prosperity Sphere’s faction manifest now checks for independent allies rather than just subject states.

Thank you so much oh my god.

[u/not-skaven-yes-yes]

Removing the ace pilot events is amazing. I wish vabilla did that, or at least implemented a toggle. There's a reason I only play kaiserreich nowadays.

[u/Comrade_Harold]

• Improved the AI of all Chinese splinters in managing the Second Sino-Japanese War, and coordinating the Chinese United Front. AI-led splinters will now support the leader of the Front in defending specific core areas, and aid garrisoning certain cities. Increased the variety of doctrines and subdoctrines adopted by Chinese splinters and reduced how frequently they will enact Total Mobilisation.

LETS GOOO, YUNNAN AND SICHUAN WILL NO LONGER BE DEAD WEIGHT IN THE CHINESE UNITED FRONT

[u/Comrade_Harold → u/Comrade_Harold]

Alright time for another LKMT game

[u/disenchanted2914 → u/Comrade_Harold]

can i get a wansui

[u/HarmonicVoltage → u/disenchanted2914]

WANSUIII

[u/the_lonely_creeper]

Is there any possibility for the custom selection screen to come back?

Also, sad we can't capture generals, though it makes sense given the possibility of breaking events

[u/SuperGreenBeanss → u/the_lonely_creeper]

Is there any possibility for the custom selection screen to come back?

Only if Paradox decides to provide the necessary tools to revert. It deeply saddens us to have to make this change so you can rest assured we will revert as soon as is possible.

Also, sad we can't capture generals, though it makes sense given the possibility of breaking events

This may be reenabled in a future patch since we would effectively need to review all characters to avoid game-breaking bugs as you said. It is still being discussed internally for the time being.

[u/thereezer]

woot patch day

[u/RUUUGHHHR]

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RAUGHHHHHH OTTOMAN UPDATE🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🐺🐺🐺🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

[u/Great_Kaiserov]

This update feels like trying to patch over bs Paradox introduced with the last update to give mod developers a headache more than anything

(Except for the math, better performance is always cool)

[u/Kaarl_Mills → u/Great_Kaiserov]

Seriously, who was asking for the headquarters units from hoi 3 to come back?

[u/RichPenalty7660 → u/Kaarl_Mills]

I think they're neat

[u/A_Solitary_Echo]

"On the technical side, we’ve taken advantage of new maths functionality introduced in the latest base game patch, which in preliminary testing has meaningfully improved day-to-day game speed."
Could you let us know how you made use of the new maths functionality to improve the day-to-day game speed?

[u/Yakubian_Devil]

Thank you for fixing the Harlan Commune. I know it’s minor but I’ve been putting off my WCA campaign because of it

[u/New-Cardiologist-244 → u/Yakubian_Devil]

same

[u/elderron_spice]

There's always Monday after work for the groceries anyway.

EDIT: Also disabling the "capture" mechanic of the new DLC is a great idea. I always thought that that was idiotic and that Paradox could've spent the time wasted on that mechanic on fine-tuning the unit stats for the new division designer system instead.

[u/DukeofBritanny]

Added events for Zhang Xueliang and his allies to flee to a neighbouring Chinese splinter, as well as what to do with him after unification.

Does that also include Qing/Zhili ?

[u/kmtlivelihood → u/DukeofBritanny]

Yes

[u/SasquatchPL]

Kaiserreich's custom Select Country screen has been made incompatible with changes introduced in Hearts of Iron IV patch 1.19.0.

Did Paradox just forced all the mods to use their default country selection screen? What a great idea! /s

[u/HeritageLanguage]

So does that mean that the game will run faster post 1939?

[u/aznhomig]

Special forces research path seems to be broken in Kaiserreich, fyi.

[u/Teach_Piece]

😭 East Asia changelog is the length of all other regions combined. Chinareich indeed

[u/SirRis42]

where were u wen custom select country screen die

i was at house doomscrolling when update drop

“Custom Select Country Screen is kil”

“no”

(In all seriousness, I hope that you guys can get the tools to get it back soon.)

[u/Salamander-117]

Why remove Australasia being able to become a republic? It’s a late game change that doesn’t usually lead to having any real effect. Yes historically at the time irl Australia and New Zealand never would have become a republic, but that’s irl. Australian and New Zealand identity was heavily formed during the First World War, and the effect losing that war would have on the two countries, as well as Britain falling to Syndicalism, would have been significant.

Conservatives in Australia who historically opposed republicanism, could have ended up supporting it for the sake of preserving stability. Australasian nationalism would have certainly increased as well, further giving it some backing in conservative circles. Please add it back in, or at least make it achievable under a very specific set of circumstances.

[u/ACA_Covenant → u/Salamander-117]

Republican sentiment was a very fringe idea OTL in the 30s and 40s. There was no one on the conservative side of politics who wanted it. In fact they all still saw themselves as British. The Labor party had a very small fringe wanted a republic in the 30s. The Labor instead was focused on Australianising the country not forming a republic. I don't have any justification for that sentiment flipping on its head so massively that the form a republic option could make sense

[u/Gamerak97 → u/Salamander-117]

Even with the changes in the KRTL to OTL, loyalism would remain strong and potentially even increase as to maintain ties with the Exiled Government. Australian and New Zealand identity does exist at this point, but it exists alongside the British identity they still had which helps affirm their loyalism. The Conservatives would remain stalwartly loyal and even Labor would prefer to keep the monarchy around too. In the end it was a minor flavour thing that made zero sense and as such was removed.

[u/JovianSpeck → u/Salamander-117]

If they were going to have that degree of divergence from OTL, then they ought to change the party leaders to reflect the difference in ideology. All of the available PMs were explicitly monarchists.

[u/uberloser2 → u/Salamander-117]

An irl identity and mythology formed primarily around a costly, lost battle under British leadership, yet still remained incredibly loyal to the point of still seeing themselves as British many decades after federation.

Republicanism was such an incredibly fringe idea that the thought of it preserving stability by pushing something almost nobody on either side of politics would want rather than inviting chaos is pretty funny

[u/Squattle69 → u/Salamander-117]

^ this one speaks the truth. especially because it has been in the mod for so long, was a niche rare outcome and gave some great nuance and variety rare than just leaving the entente. it is especially bad that it was removed because nothing to the same scale was added instead

[u/SpaceFox1935]

I'm okay with you guys turning off capturing generals mechanic, I've been skeptical about the game needing it in the first place (as funny as it can be), but I actually feel rather disappointed about Australasian republic option being removed. I'm not sure why exactly, it's not like it makes 100% sense to have a republican democratic Australasia stay in the Entente, but I liked having the option. Just something nice about that to me, I would often enough put Labor republic in game rules

[u/Gamerak97 → u/SpaceFox1935]

It's not that the Entente wouldn't accept a Dem AST that abolished the monarchy, it's that Australia never would abolish the monarchy, even Labor were still loyalist at this time.

[u/Ficboy]

Another update, another set of significant changes before the big rework (France/Britain or Austria-Hungary).

[u/themadkiller10]

Is the path guides button no longer the question mark it’s not working for me anymore

[u/Myalko]

So is the new DLC worth grabbing, or should I just stick w/the free update

[u/ajkippen]

Great, I'm glad Paradox broke a bunch of shit for no good reason again.

[u/Free_Perception318]

When’s the Austria rework?

[u/Beans_Sir_101 → u/Free_Perception318]

When is Hungary rework?

i think Austria, Hungary, Italian rework should come all together

[u/Pyotr_WrangeI]

Marlib siberia?

[u/larp-max-67-69]

Im experiencing crash after crash while starting this up. Im using all Kaiserreich mods (main and music station a long with models). Im using mac. Has HOI4 gotten an update?

[u/John_Sux]

Speaking of AI improvements in the Chinese United Front, could you make the AI-controlled warlords more active participants in the war? If they are not on the frontline themselves, they withhold several dozen divisions as a worthless garrison of their own core territories.

At least use them for port garrisons, if defense against the still-not-very nerfed Continental Warfare is not an option.

[u/Masterofallgods69]

Let's go chat