Mod «The Coming Storm» for Hearts of Iron 4 (v1.12.1 - 1.12.8)

The year is 1905, the world is at the brink of one of the most destructive wars ever recorded...

The Coming Storm is a OTL scenario Mod for Hearts of Iron IV, which covers the years between 1905 and 1923. This mod focuses on adding considerable depth to politics, ideological competition, historical events, social changes, deep focus trees, and a plethora of decisions over the base game against the backdrop of the diplomatic double dealing, revolutionary fervor, and ardent nationalism that led to the outbreak of the Great War.

Custom Startdates

• 1905: The Breeze of Peace
• 1910: The Coming Storm
• 1914: The Storm of Steel
• 1918: The Settling Winds

Custom Focus Trees

Recommended Nations to Play

• Italy
• Bulgaria
• Greece
• Russia
• Montenegro
• Latvia 1918
• Poland 1918

Nations with Content (Most are Unfinished)

• Germany
• Italy
• Russia
• Austria-Hungary
• France
• United Kingdom
• Ottoman Empire
• Qing
• Japan
• Netherland
• Sweden
• Greece
• Bulgaria
• Romania
• Luxembourg
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Ethiopia
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Bhutan
• Poland (1918)
• Latvia(1918)
• Ireland(1918)
• Bavaria(1918)
• And much more soon...

Custom Technology Trees (Work in Progress)

New Armor Tree

• New Air Tree
• New Naval Tree
• New Doctrine Trees

New/Updated Focus Trees

• 1918
  
  • Poland

GFX

• New placeholder portrait(s) GUI
• New placeholder portrait(s) KAR
• New placeholder portrait(s) XSM
• New faction icon(s) Intermarium
• Added GFX for Seized Equipment

Miscellaneous

• Ottomans not surrendering during First Balkan War fixed
• Beglium event fix
• Socialist Netherlands now loses colonies if they win

Version 27.10.22 for Hearts of Iron 4 (v1.12.1 - 1.12.4)

• New/Updated Focus Trees
• 1918
  
  • Latvia (RevSoc Path)
• Map Changes
  
  • Arabia state rework
• Miscellaneous
  
  • Balancing to the Russo-Japanese War
  • Balancing of the Xinhai Revolution
  • AI Fixes for proper tech research
  • Various nations have now gotten correct tech for various startdates
  • Balance of Power Mechanic for the Russo-Japanese War
  • Division Limiter nerfed (capped at 80% industrialization now)
  • Various fixes for the 1918 startdate
  • Raiding mechanic added for multiple tags
  • Removal of Rocket Sites, Nuclear Factories, Anti-Air Buildings and Radar Buildings

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Version 16.05.22 for Hearts of Iron 4 (v1.11.1 - 1.11.11)

New/Updated Focus Trees

• 1918
  
  • Czechoslovakia (very basic tree)
• 1905
  
  • Germany (Air Tree 1905-1910)

Map Changes

• Added supply depots in GER, POL, LIT
• Various small map fixes

GFX / 3D

• New portraits for GER and FRA
• New GFX for various Techs
• New Nicholas II portrait
• Armored Car 3D model

Miscellaneous

• Various error fixes in 1918
• Unit limiter fixed on startup
• Topbar gui cleaned up

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Version 13.04.22 for Hearts of Iron 4 (v1.11.1 - 1.11.9)

New/Updated Focus Trees

• 1918
  
  • Poland
• 1914
  
  • Germany (Small War Tree)

Map Changes

• States in Baltics get renamed dynamically
• Russian Railways
• Fixed a small river error in Poland
• Italian Railways
• Austrian Railways

New/Updated Events

• German establishment of Poland
• WW1 triggers in all startdates now
• Poland can peace out the Soviets now
• Lenin and Kerensky show up properly during the Russian Revolution

GFX

• Lenin Portrait
• Wilhelm II Portrait
• Kerensky Portrait
• Entente faction icon

Miscellaneous

• Largescale AI tweaks
• Switching back to Ideas for Ministers
• No more random wars by ITA/BUL/OTT
• United Baltic Duchy recommended in 1918 startdate
• Russian parties in 1914 onwards
• CZE leaders now properly show up again
• No more nukes

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Version 28.03.22 for Hearts of Iron 4 (v1.11.1 - 1.11.9)

• Fixes and improvements

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Version 14.02.22 for Hearts of Iron 4 (v1.11.1 - 1.11.6)

New/Updated Focus Trees

• 1918
  
  • Ukraine
  • Poland
• 1905
  
  • Maji Maji Rebellion

Map Changes

• Wadai and Darfur ownership correct in all startdates
• Egypt no longer controls Sudan
• Added Various Railways across the map
• Small state change in the Balkans to reflect the areas taken by BUL better in the 1BW
• Congo Free State added
• German Kamerun map fix

New/Updated Events

• Xinhai Revolution
• Qing abdication
• Balkan War firing in 1910
• Start on the Tangier Crisis event tree
• Lado Enclave transfer event

GFX

• New Autonomy Type Icons
• Redone Ideology Texticons

Miscellaneous

• Fengtian Clique no longer has Russian Manchuria flag
• Italy now actually invades Libya
• Bulgaria capitulates when either certain states are occupied, or if they are above 60% capitulation
• Slight changes to naval invasion tech (might be tweaked later)
• Placeholder foci for Belgium
• Namaqua/Herero Revolt Leader and Flag added
• Slightly redid the officer corp view, looks nicer and more uniform then vanilla now
• Fixed ministers for POL and UKR
• Coal Re-added to production view
• Ideology descriptions
• Army Doctrine Tree in-game
• Horse-Drawn Carriages now function as supply vehicles
• Date & Country Selection Screen updated

Character System Conversions

• NOR fully done
• GER fully done

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Version 02.01.22 for Hearts of Iron 4 (v1.11.1 - 1.11.4)

• Update to game version 1.11.4

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Version 30.11.21 for Hearts of Iron 4 (v1.11.1 - 1.11.2)

• Update to game version 1.11

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Version 31.03.21 for Hearts of Iron 4 (v1.10.1 - 1.10.4)

New/Updated Focus Trees

1918

• Bavaria
• Latvia
• Latvian Socialist Republic
• Poland
• Ireland

1914

• N/A

1910

• Montenegro

1905

• Greece
• Germany
• Russia
• Ethiopia
• Norway
• Qing
• Montenegro
• Italy
• Ottomans
• Persia (Removed due to unholy amount of bugs)
• United Kingdom
• New Zealand

Map Changes

• British Cores Corrected
• Yemen State Rework
• Persia State Rework
• Arabia State Rework
• Afghan State Rework
• Caucasus Borders in 1918 Updated
• Ryukyu is now correctly sized (most important part of the update)

New/Updated Events

• Serbian Incursion into Banat
• Czechoslovak-Hungarian War
• Namaqua Revolt (re-added)
• Crete Event Chain
• Soviet Invasion of Latvia

GFX

• Various redone Portraits
• Various added Portraits
• Icons for Polish Decisions
• Pictures for the Greater Poland Uprising

Miscellaneous

• Rebalancing of Polish Generals
• Piłsudski's missing description after Moraczewskis cabinet fixed
• Greater Poland Uprising news event and Polish Independence news event
• Custom and Historical names for wars in 1918 (No more Polish-German War or Russian-Soviet Russia War)
• No left-over cores for COU and LIV after LAT and EST take them
• No more colony states in LAT and EST
• Agreement with Ober-Ost for POL
• Truce with UPR is fixed now
• Some decisions improvements
• Removed German 1918 OOB
• LIV Party Pops

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Version 08.07.20 for Hearts of Iron 4 (v1.9.3)

General Fixes

• Fixed Montenegrin Flag and Capital
• New State Font
• Updated Texticons for Ideologies
• Libyan States
• New Leader Portraits for HOL and RUS
• Russian State and VP Name Fixes
• Removed Macedonian Struggle decisions
• Added Coal as a resource
• 200~ Idea Files Cleaned
• Some Now Useless Scripts Cleaned
• Sneaky Afgan Portrait and Color
• Removed 28 blank focus files
• Border Dispute States in South America Added
• Various State Fixes
• Chinese State Rework
• Indochina State Rework

1905 Startdate Additions

• British Content 1905-1906
• Added many new ministers to Romania
• Overhauled Transylvanian resources and VPs
• State and province work within Transylvania
• Reworked Swedish Parliament
• French Content 1905-1906
• Generic Tree for 1905 Polish Revolt
• Reworked Dutch Civil War
• Ottoman Decisions re-activated
• German Content 1905-1907
• Japanese OOB
• Hidden Decision for HRE
• OOB Changes for Russia
• Russian Idea Changes and Additions
• New Russian Generals
• New Russian Event and Focus Descriptions
• Minor Russian Focus Tree and Decision Updates
• Updated Bulgarian units/technology
• Reworked Bulgarian Starting Tree
• Reworked certain Bulgarian events
• Bulgaria won't join the war against Yemen anymore!
• Added Historical Content for Greece up to 1915
• Reworked starting parties and popularites for Greece
• Added descs to most focuses for Greece
• Reworked Greek starting tree
• Reworked Mavromichalis tree
• reworked the Goudi coup event chain for greece
• Montenegro Content from 1905-1910
• Italo-Turkish War Added
• New portait for 1905 Polish Revolutionaries
• Added Sultanate of Wadai
• Added Sultanate of Darfur
• Mongolia, Kumul and Tibet Added
• German Economic Tree 1905-1910
• Icons and new Victor Emmanuelle portrait for Italy
• Honduran Semi-Generic Tree Added
• Added OOB to Norway
• Added Norwegian Content 1905-1910
• Generals and Admirals Norway
• State Fixes Norway
• Polish Revolt Improved with OOB and Placement
• Ukrainian Revolt Portrait Added

1910 Startdate Additions

• New Sonnino II Tree for Italy
• New Luzzatti Tree for Italy
• OOB Changes for Russia
• Added Historical Content for Greece up to 1915
• Added Greek 1910 Alt-History Scenario
• Italo-Turkish War Added

1914 Startdate Additions

• OOB Changes for Russia
• Added Historical Content for Greece up to 1915
• Made Greece Playable in the 1914 Startdate

1918 Startdate Additions

• Dynamic State Renaming for POL and UKR
• StanisÅ‚awów State Infra and VP Fixes
• Czech Event Fixes
• Polish Generals Balancing
• State & VP Fixes for Poland and West Ukraine
• Ukraine Anti-Hetmanate's coup content
• Coalitions and oppositions for UKR
• New OOB for WUK
• New partly done OOB for Poland
• West Ukraine Idea Fixes and Changes
• New GFX for Poland
• Improved OOB for Poland
• Polish Tree, Ideas, and Decision Balancing/Omprovements
• Some Bavaria Events
• Volunteer Army Added
• Soviet Invasion of Belarus Added
• Soviet Belarus Starting Tree
• AI Strategy and AI Units for Poland and LIT
• New elections laws adjustment for Poland
• New decisions for Poland
• Updated ministers for Various 1918 Nations
• Reworked nat. spirits for Poland
• Lithuanian divisions namelist
• New field marshal for Lithuania
• Lithuanian names for states and vic. points
• Fixed Lithuanian state bug
• Czech states names
• No more cores for AUS in 1918 CZE
• Generic Tree for Western Ukraine
• Greater Poland Uprising Ideology Change
• Removed Ideas for Austria and Russia
• Ministers for the Greater Poland Uprising
• Versailles Event at the OTL date

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Version 25.03.20 for Hearts of Iron 4 (v1.9.0 - 1.9.1)

• Fixed small research animation
• Topbar GUI properly displays percentage
• Various duplicate loc strings removed
• Bosnia removed as ghost puppet
• POL now has 2 research slots instead of 3
• POL, UKR, WUK Spirits improvements
• Some changes in POL foc. tree
• More unique GFX for POL tree
• POL Loc improvements
• More precisive OOB for UKR
• Portraits for SCS, HUN, CZE starting leaders
• First focuses for WUK tree
• Minor improvements in polish events
• More generals for UKR and WUK
• Various Loc Fixes
• Balkan War Start (balkan_war.1 as BUL to fire debug war)
• Galician Map Fixes
• Bulgarian Map Fixes
• South African States
• Montenegrin OOB added
• Redone Caucasian States
• New German Natspirit Icons
• Italian Loc Fixes
• New Italian GFX
• Populations and Infrastructure for Italian States
• Started work on Crete Content
• 1918 Armenian-Azerbaijan War Added (No Content)
• Fixed Map Related CtD
• Started work on Greek Alt-His
• Added Tags ARA and KUR
• Various Small Bugfixes

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Version 26.02.20 for Hearts of Iron 4 (v1.9.0 - 1.9.1)

• WUK, UKR, BLR, EST, LAT, LIT, now have 2 research slots except 3
• POL stability is fixed now
• POL foc. tree is more dynamic, late 1918 and early 1919 branch is almost done
• POL coalition and opposition mechanics has been added
• Few POL ministers has been fixed/removed
• Some focus GFX for POL tree
• POL Moraczewski cabinet decree decisions has been done
• POL Loc improvements
• Commune of the Working Ppl. of EST now have red flag
• Two new vic. points in Eastern Galicia: Tarnopol, Drohobych
• Greater Poland Upising has been added
• Some vic. points and infrastructure fix for POL
• Białystok colony state bug after "Agreement wit Ober-Ost" event is fixed now
• Nat. Spirits for WUK has been added
• Now POL have a cosmetic tag at start
• Some party fixes for POL
• Starting Splash added
• New Start Screen
• Naval Invasions are now researchable
• GUI Updated (Part of 1.9 Patch)
• Map fixed (Part of 1.9 Patch)
• Over 2k of Unused Flags Removed

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Version 05.12.19 for Hearts of Iron 4 (v1.8.0 - 1.8.1)

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