May 2025 Patch Notes - deliciousmods/1956_beta GitHub Wiki

Highlights

The April Fools surprises have been disabled by default; they can be re-enabled in the Custom Game rules.
Most Germany/Finnish/Iran/Iraq changes from recent War Effort patches have been integrated into the mod, with India and Afghanistan soon to come.

Additions

Added historical ace names for Germany, Japan, Siam, Romania, Canada, etc.
New advisors for the United Kingdom, British RAJ, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, the Netherlands, and Dutch East Indies.
One extra focus and various other smaller improvements for South Africa (more MIOs, historical advisors).
[MtG] Ported Dutch changes such as the availability of Fokker and DAF.
[MtG] Countries that were historically British Protectorates will now be released as such once UK decolonizes in its Communist tree.
[AAT] Added an MIO for Belgium.

Adjustments

Siam's focus Negotiations With France will now send its event requesting Cambodia and Laos to France instead of French Indochina.
Rt56 Switzerland focus General Fortifications Program now gives the Swiss Fortifications state modifier.
Romanian focus Increase Air Research now grants an aeronautical research centre.
Buffed the effects of several focuses in the Egyptian military tree.
Disallowed the potential of cloning Karl Pius von Habsburg and Vasyl Vyshyvanyi.
The Papal States now start as a bastion of Catholicism.
United Kingdom advisor Ernest Bevin now has the better Trade Unionist trait instead of Quartermaster General.
Portugal's advisor Jose Hipolito Raposo now has Minister of the Interior, in addition to his Fascist demagogue trait.
The Peru-Chile border now has 2 tiles (was 1) on both sides, which should improve the quality of life of fighting wars in the region.
R56 Portugal has received some small balance updates to strengthens air builds, and slightly weaken the Communist/Democratic branches while buffing the Fascist/Non-Aligned paths.
[LaR] Random agency upgrades reward now includes RT56 upgrades too.
[ToA] Communist USA will no longer be able to intervene against communism in Latin America.
[GD] Submarine anechoic tiles are now available for 1940 submarines and cruiser submarines like in the base game.

Bugfixes

Integrated as many bugfixes from the 1.16.5 patch as possible.
Rt56 Belgium's focus Restore the Auto-Cannon Unit now correctly grants MIO funds.
Fixed Greater Italy decision never appearing.
Fixed various Has Researched RADAR tech requirements never functioning.
If anyone defeats Poland's faction leader without joining their war against the USSR, the USSR now gets to keep East Poland instead of it wrongly appearing in the peace deal.
[MTG] Fixed Mexico's focus Triumph of Synarchism still appearing in some instances where it is supposed to hide.
[LaR] If removed, the Recovering From the Spanish Civil War spirit will no longer re-apply itself with certain focuses.
[LaR] If you complete the Spanish Civil War too quickly, Falangist Spain will no longer be stuck with the Carlism national spirit.
[LaR] Karl Pius von Habsburg will now be chooseable as a Carlist claimant, unless he is crowned by Peru earlier in the game.
[AAT] If Norway decides to put Trotsky into house-arrest, and later decides to deport him, Mexico will now get the correct event for his arrival.
[GD] Hungary no longer demands Transylvania when Germany has a focus available to give it to them.

GFX

Added several new focus icons.
New portraits for Venezuela and Liechtenstein.
Removed many duplicate national spirit icons throughout the United States, Germany, Sweden and Ireland.
Fixed some Eastern Front Pack planes GFX not being used.
[LaR] changed a number of Spanish focus icons.
[LaR] Added several missing Portuguese advisor portraits for those with the DLC enabled.

Credits

Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project, as well as for opportunities to learn about the related history.