V. 0.30

Millennium Dawn: Expanded is an submod for the original Millennium Dawn: Modern Day Mod. In oder to play this mod, download MD first. The Great War does exactly what it says on the tin - Hearts of Iron 4 has been transformed to the world of 1910, where old-fashioned imperialistic powers jockey for supremacy at the dawn of the 20th Century. The game & mechanics have been completely overhauled to fit the period - that means that innovations like Tanks and Planes will take a. Millennium Dawn: Modern Day Mod A collection of mods rather than a single one, Millennium Dawn's most obvious change is that of bringing the modern-day world map into Hearts of Iron IV. Naturally, its set of changes go much deeper than the surface, also introducing new economic and political systems alongside new technologies and focus trees. Dec 01, 2016 Millennium Dawn is a mod for Hearts of Iron IV that aims to change the originally World War 2 setting to be one of the Modern Era. It is mainly developed by a small group of modders, but everybody is welcome to contribute to the project as long as they are sticking to the principle of quality.

'Waking the Modern Tiger'

AI

• Removed several outdated AI scripts.

Decisions

• Removed the Decisions idea slot. Obviously.
• Added new decisions to all nations:
• Expand the Air Force Officer Corps
• Expand the Army Officer Corps
• Expand the Navy Officer Corps
• Palestine Policy
• Seize the Means of Production
• Taiwan Policy
• Added new decisions to specific nations:
• United Kingdom
• Falklands Policy
• United States
• Dodd-Frank Plan
• Select the King of America
• Added new multinational decisions:
• Operation Napoleon (France, Germany, Netherlands)

Diplomacy

• Changed West Sahara's starting ideology.
• Downgraded Argentina's core on the Falklands and South Georgia to a claim.

Events

• Added new events to the following countries:
  Mauritania [12]
• European Union members now get called to war when other EU members are attacked.
• Fixed the bug that caused the Norwegian Royal Marriage Event to be a country event instead of a news event.

Gameplay

• Changed the number of starting research slots. Instead of starting with 4 Research Slots, countries now start with between 2 and 5 slots.
• Changed the starting number of convoys. Instead of 500, countries now start between 1 and 1500 convoys.
• Removed all references to National Unity. Goodbye, National Unity. You will not be missed.
• Removed the Stability system and merged it into the new Stability system offered by WTT.

Graphics

• Fixed generic portraits.
• Fixed the flag of Brunei.

Ideas

• Population Growth moved to hidden ideas.

Interface

• Fixed a bug involving construction flags.
• Fixed a flickering issue when hovering over the national focus selection button.
• Fixed a graphical bug behind the party popularity pie chart.
• Fixed an issue that would cause the artillery tech tree to bug out to users with smaller resolutions.
• Fixed several UI issues.

Localisation

• Localisation fixes to Norway and Ukraine.

Map

Adapted the following borders:

• Chechnya
• Israel/Palestine
• Oman/UAE
• New States in the following regions:
• Comoros
• Israel
• New Victory Points in the following countries:
• Afghanistan
• Egypt
• Iran
• Iraq
• Israel
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Lebanon
• Palestine
• Syria
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• UAE
• Uzbekistan
• Numerous other and minor map changes and border corrections.

National Focus

• Fixed issues with the Norwegian focus tree.

Technologies

• All technologies affecting Mechanized now also affect Light Mechanized.

other Fix

• Disabling factions with cheat.1 will now prevent EU calls to arms.
• Fixed some UI bugs.
• Unlocked all army icons for all nations.
• Fixed the border between India and Bangledesh.
• Fixed Transnistria. It is no longer Cisnistia and sits on the proper side of the river now.
• Fixed the construction menu.
• Fixed a graphical bug that would cause frontline GFX to simulate WW1 military planning by floating away and making intelligent military plans impossible.

V. 0.29

Events

• Event fixes.

Localisation

• Changed more British English localisation string and liberated them.
• Changed the Czech monarchist name because one guy bothered us about it, but we didn't change it like he suggested just to spite him further. Love you, buddy. Be less of a nuisance, please.
• Localisation fixes.

Map

Fixed the border of the following countries:

• Cameroon
• Malawi
• Namibia

National Focuses

• Balance adjustments to several focus trees.
• Further fixes to the Norwegian focus tree.

V. 0.28

Spielen Sie als Clinton, Putin oder Blair! Sei ein vernünftiger Führer oder ein Völkermord-Maniac! Umschreibe moderne Geschichte, wie du willst!

Künstliche Intelligenz

• Komplette AI Überholung. Dank meiner guten Freunde Ducky und Alexia für die harte Arbeit diese beiden gingen durch.

Grafik

• Neue Ladebildschirme. Jetzt hat jedes Land seinem benutzerdefinierten Fokus Baum und Ladebildschirm .

Der Ort

• Lokalisierung Fixes.

Nationale Foki

• Äthiopiens Ideologie-Bäume beeinflussen die Popularität.

V. 0.25

Checksum: 1c06

Hinweis: Diese Version wird noch viele Fehler haben.

• Gesichert 1.4 Kompatibilität.
• Event-Änderungen.
• Mehrere neue Meinungsmodifikatoren.
• Anpassungen an mehreren nationalen Schwerpunkten.

V. 0.24

* Buildings
> Factories (the three basic ones and six specialized ones), Rocket Sites and Nuclear Reactors now benefit from Infrastructure.
> Increased the building time of these buildings to correspond with that.

* Events
> Adapted several events to make use of the new Party Support mechanic.
> You can now use the Political Gathering events to increase a party's public support if you choose to grant them government support. That only will work as long as you are not that ideology, you are not a puppet and the public support for the party is 0 or 1.

* Graphics
> New flags.
> New technology background pictures.

* Ideas
> Added the Party Support system, where parties can gain and lose constant popular support based on their position as well as events and national focuses.
> Doubled the strength of ideological advisors.

* Leaders
> Added new political leaders and commanders to the following countries:
>> Albania
>> Belgium
>> Bosnia and Herzegovina
>> Brazil
>> Bulgaria
>> Colombia
>> Costa Rica
>> Croatia
>> Denmark
>> El Salvador
>> France
>> Greece
>> Guatemala
>> India
>> Netherlands
>> Norway
>> Romania
>> Serbia
>> Slovenia
>> Sweden
>> United States
>> Venezuela

* National Focus
> Adapted the following focus trees to make use of the new mechanic:
>> France
>> Generic
>> Germany
>> Russia
>> United Kingdom
>> United States
> In the British focus tree, School for Strategic Warfare is now optional, connecting Army Doctrine II to Army Doctrine I instead.

* Bugfixes
> Localization fixes, especially for naval equipment.
> Killed a few clones.
> The leader of Iran has suddenly discovered that having a face is something a person can do.

The year was 1870 and things were very much not going well for France. Getting into character as Napoleon III, I had previously embarked on a series of foreign adventures that quickly turned into calamitous humiliations: an uprising in Savoy, a pig headed Mexican adventure, an ill-advised conflict with Belgium over railroads or some such nonsense.

And now the Prussians were pushing into Alsace-Lorraine! Fearing a military coup against my flailing regime, I tacitly accepted Blanquist support for an assassination attempt against General MacMahon, one of my top field commanders. When the assassination failed, the General and his allies fled to Bordeaux to raise a rebellion in the southwest. It was only a matter of time before a flood of Prussians pushed through the fortified border, captured my unlucky emperor, and marched on Paris mere days after a government of national defense could be organized.

That was the high-water mark of my first campaign of End of a New Beginning (or, EoaNB), a mod for Paradox Interactive’s WWII simulator Hearts of Iron IV. It’s a project with an impressively ambitious mandate: extend the timeline in HoI4 to cover the period from 1857 to 2050. Although the mod is still very early in its development, it scratches a very particular itch. It offers the promise of a modern grand strategy experience set (if only partially) in the Victorian era, that age of industrialization and imperialism.

Could this be a substitute for Victoria III, that forbidden fruit Paradox diehards have been clamoring about for years? It certainly has the potential, even if it is still too early to tell. While it might not be the Victoria III we deserve, it could, based on the trajectory of its development, be the one we desperately need right now.

Whether or not it can get to that stage could very well be contingent on if the direction the mod’s development takes in the next few months.

Building a New Beginning

If that claim of a nearly 200-year timeframe gave you misgivings, then you are not alone. Building a mod that can accurately, or even broadly, model military and political conflict ranging from the cabinet wars of European nation-states to the ideological proxy wars of global superpowers seems like a fool’s errand, at best. To do this in a game that was originally designed to support a time-frame of 1936-48 seems an especially egregious affront to reality.

But then, the Hoi4 mod scene is as impressive as it is bustling, producing some excellent (and incredibly ambitious) fan-made mods such as Kaiserreich and Millennium Dawn, mods that push the boundaries of what the base systems were designed to do.

EoaNB is striving not just for length, but also depth. To this end, the mod has totally overhauled the economic, political, and cultural systems from HoI4. The ultimate end goal is to create a sandbox (not that dissimilar to Victoria II) in which players can guide their nations through 200-years of revolutionary change.

The world in 1857 is lovingly detailed, with everything from European microstates to the vast tapestry of uncolonized African nations. An impressive amount of these states already have detailed National Focus Trees and unique decisions. Even in its barebones state, the world is impressively realized.

The economic system has been totally overhauled. The basic six strategic resources of HoI4 have been increased to nineteen in order to fuel the expanded economy. Military and civilian factories, the basic unit of the game’s war machine, have been supplemented with numerous new buildings such as cotton farms, textile mills, coal mines, and rubber refineries.

The political system (or lack thereof) has been replaced with a new comprehensive government panel with the ability to change everything from your economic policy to your level of press freedom. As of right now, the political system is more aspirational than anything but offers the possibility of adding a layer of detailed national management that is entirely absent from the original game.

Hoi4 Millennium Dawn Download

To coincide with the vastly extended timeline, the tech trees are absolutely sprawling and cover a wide array of fields such as biochemistry, socio-cultural advancement, and mechanical engineering that were either absent or abstracted away. The result is a mod that looks like it may somehow turn HoI4, a game narrowly focused on the lead-up and execution of World War II, into a socio-economic simulator capable of capturing some of the nuances of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Ambition: Enemy of Success

Much of these systems are still only in the very early stages of development. Events and Focus Trees – where present – currently only extend into the early 1880s at the latest. Even then, it seems clear that there is serious potential for this mod. The few pivotal nations that are serving as the backbone of the mod and have received the bulk of the dev’s attention look incredibly promising, so long as a similar level of detail can trickle down to secondary and tertiary nations.

But some fault lines are already visible in the project, some of which could present serious issues for the mod's ambitious plans. For example:

• The military system has not been overhauled in the same way as the political and economic systems. At present, warfare in 1857 is no different from warfare in 1945, sans some planes and tanks. It seems unlikely that the mechanics could adequately model warfare in the Franco-Prussian or American Civil War, much less a cyberwar in 2050. Some sort of mobilization mechanic seems necessary to reflect the war-by-timetable reality of armies in the period.
• The in-game clock moves way too slow. Unlike other paradox titles that move by days, HoI4 moves by hours. This makes sense for a game that is operating on a 10-year timescale, less so for one operating on a 200-year one. At the moment, there is a painfully long amount of time between interesting things happening, even when leaving the timer on the highest speed setting.
• Most importantly, the mod is likely sacrificing depth for length. Rather than focus on a narrower timeframe (say the 1850s to 1930s) or a more specific goal, its overly ambitious plans may leave this promising mod flailing. Rather than a carefully curated experience filled with bespoke events and decisions, it could be spread too thin – interesting ideas, poorly executed. The sandbox could become a quagmire.

Victoria 3 or Bust?

EoaNB certainly has the potential to fill the currently unoccupied grand strategy niche of a Victoria successor, but only if it doubles down on that period and that period alone. Many of the mechanics are in place, but the polish is not yet there, and may not be for a long time coming. Many grand strategy fans would jump at the chance to play an ersatz Victoria III. EoaNB should lean on this enthusiasm.

Whether the entirety of its ambitious goals can be achieved is an open question. But as the mod’s wiki states, the “sole goal is to make it work, no matter how difficult it is.” Hopefully, they do. But even if they fall short, this is an excellent mod to keep an eye on as its community grows, and the project comes together. The interested should check out the community Discord server to follow along.

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