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7.4.0



[h3]ADDED[/h3]
  • New 'political map' overlay. At the push of a button, you can show/hide it. Combined with the keybind to hide units, you have full control over what's shown/hidden. To toggle the political map, you will need to set up the new keybind for it.
  • New policy category: National Focuses.
  • Few new policies to go under that new category: Industrial overtime, Aggressive Propaganda, Military Scientists, Army Training, Resistance Suppression, Construction Engineering, Commanders development program. Description is available in game :) The goal for this new category was to be more useful late game, to have something where you could have your HQ points spent on a per turn basis automatically. Some of these policies do require a sacrifice of 1 HQ point per turn.
  • New other policies: Bigger command centers, Highlands experts.
  • Possibility to completely hide the in game UI by pressing F10 (+ new keybind).
  • Possibility to assign/change a country's ideology in the map editor.
  • AT infantry to Greece.
  • AA and AT and arty units to Turkey.
  • Basic AA and artillery as well as Engineers to Baltic States.
  • Missing buildings to Baltic States.
  • Vickers M1933 to Lithuania.
  • M4A3 105mm Sherman to the US.


[h3]CHANGED[/h3]
  • Multiplayer compatibility -> 7.4.0.
  • Economy / Occupation policies and income modifiers did not work as intended when a tile was occupied (modifiers applied on wrong value).
  • Made policies lighter (data wise). Will make some late game save files a tad lighter/smaller.
  • Increased Commanders units upkeep by quite a lot when playing with policies ON (15 upkeep vs 1 upkeep).
  • Slightly changed the player slots setup in the map editor settings.
  • Now showing the max cap of HQ points in both the store and the policies menu.
  • Changed the 'map' button action to toggling the political map. I have disabled the old 'strategic' map.
  • I have removed the hardcoded 'Winter fighting bonus' for the Northern countries, and instead, made it free for them to pick the Winter Soldiers military tactics policy.
  • Political unit option no longer add an extra production turn.
  • Mountaineer unit option now adds an extra production turn.
  • Mountaineer option is now available for small AT guns and artillery guns.
  • Several buildings graphics (Coastal batteries, factory, refinery).
  • Supplies amount per tile penalty with complex supplies setting.
  • Estonia country revamp (geography) on Europe scenarios.
  • Latvia country revamp (geography) on Europe scenarios.
  • Lithuania country revamp (geography) on Europe scenarios.
  • Added missing naval convoy routes in Europe scenarios (other than 1939).
  • Reduced a bit the AI's purchase rate of commanders.
  • Flamethrower bonus vs units in urban areas is now scaled with the HP of the unit attacking. It felt odd to get the bonus based on base damage without scaling it with HP. I had a 9HP unit having a +10 damage bonus from flamethrower. Broken AF :)
  • F2A / F4F fighters stats.
  • P-38 fly range stat.
  • Engineers can no longer place down stuff in an uncontrolled manner (as well as destroyers for laying mines). They are both restricted to placing down 1 item max per turn.
  • Graphics of all buildings units icons.
  • Restat of all AT43 infantry.
  • Removed some hard damage to marines and NKVD infantry.
  • Changed some policies effects: Better shovels now give +2 max entrenchment instead of 1, but comes with a dig in speed penalty of 50%. So, instead of gaining +1 entrenchment every turn, it is now every 2 turns. Same with the Organized Defenses policy, it has the same dig in speed penalty. Human wave now has a x2 heal cost penalty for infantry. So it costs double to heal the same amount of HP. Camouflage now increases the purchase cost of all land units by 5%.
  • Changed a bit the rule for retreating. Now, if a unit is attacked and deals back 0 damage, instead of retreating right away, it will only do so if the amount of damage received is superior or equal to 30% of its current HP.
  • Several US tanks graphics.
  • Artillery purchase cost difference has been increased and sorted by 'tier'. The heavier the gun, the higher the cost difference between light arty. This change was needed as the difference in cost between a 105mm and 150mm arty was only 10.


[h3]FIXED[/h3]
  • Tile info displayed with mouse hovering would not display the right amount of income production if the amount was modified in the editor (on a per tile basis).
  • AI buying too many AT infantry even when not needed.
  • Changing faction in the diplomacy menu did not provoke a refresh of the income summary.
  • Units with 0 movement points would not turn 'dark' once they had attacked (indicating they are out of actions). Example: Coastal batteries.
  • Newly deployed units would not be darkened unless selected and unselected (force refresh).
  • Units on small islands could not resupply if a single enemy was nearby.
  • Trench tiles if set as VP when captured would yield a 'no translation' notification.
  • F4F Wildcat could be equipped with torpedoes even though it could not IRL.
  • If a unit had some turns in production left before being upgraded, the upgrade would override the production value. Now, the highest will be kept. So if for example before the upgrade, the unit still needed 3 turns of production, and after the upgrade only 2, it will stay on 3. No more upgrade production time cheesing :)
  • AI will no longer deploy ships in 'closed' bodies of water. It will now check if it can move from its harbour to reach an enemy target. If no enemy target is found, then it will not deploy the ship at the harbour.
  • Missing frozen versions of convoy route tiles (graphics) as well as naval reinforcement tiles.
  • One instance of unit stacking! Yay!
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