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The Road to 56 [Beta]

July 2025 BETA!

**Highlights**
- Revamped the communist path for Honduras.
- [GoE] Both the rt56 and vanilla Indian trees are available via game rule.

**Additions**
- Added a small Niuean economy tree.
- Added new advisors for various countries, mainly the Americas.
- Added new companies for various countries.
- Added an Embargo China branch for the UK.
- Readded the "Expand Katowice Resources" focus for Poland from vanilla.
- Reworked the phosphate trade mechanic for Nauru.
- [LaR] Added the "Institute Price Controls" focus for Spain from vanilla.
- [GoE] A few Iraqi events from the latest War Effort patch have been incorporated into the mod.

**Adjustments**
- Added infrastructure to all Ethiopian states.
- Blocked the VP renaming button in multiplayer so people can't spam it to lag the game.
- Honduras's decision "Take the Spanish Throne" has been reworked to no longer release you as Spain.
- Nuking the Panama or Suez canals now blocks them.
- Added "super-historical" branches (prior only available to the AI) for a few countries.
- Adjusted effects of Soviet focuses "Soviet Artillery" and "Superior War Machines".
- Germany can now use the "Industrial Requisition" decisions if they have Totaler Krieg economy law.
- Rearranged the RT56 British fascist tree.
- Yugoslav focus "Form the Balkan Federation" will now grant certain military commanders from annexed nations.
- Added flavour to a few British industrial focuses.
- Reduced amount of resources in Katowice and replaced part of the steel production with steel mills.
- Soviet focus "Eradicate Western Fascism" now has a bypass in order to not be locked out of "The Iron Curtain" focus in some situations.
- [GD] All German focuses that require 40% ideology support will no longer stop if ideology support falls below 40%.

**Bugfixes**
- Fixed Finland joining the Allies on historical.
- Fixed a missing tooltip in the German focus "Crossing the Atlantic".
- Fixed German fortification focuses assigning to the wrong states.
- Fixed Liberia forming its own faction on historical.
- Fixed Syria annexing France if the latter capitulates with the two at war.
- Fixed the Portuguese focus "Modernize the Rural Regions" downgrading the Guarda state to developed rural (from town).
- Fixed focus tree offsets for Romania and Poland.
- [AAT] "Kungliga Vattenfallstyrelsen" industrial concern correctly upgrades when infrastructure is built in Northern Sweden.
- [GD] German democratic AI should no longer fail to get rid of August von Mackensen as country leader.
- [GoE] Fixed the Saadabad Pact shared branch overlapping with other focuses if branch hiding is disabled.
- [GoE] Fixed Iraqi and Iranian focuses to nationalize their oil not working correctly.
- [GoE] Fixed Afghanistan with the vanilla tree loading in with the RT56 balance of power.

**GFX**
- Added a new small Winter Logistics icon.

**Localization**
- Focus localization is up to date with vanilla (note for submodders: we moved most vanilla localization into a replace file to improve maintenance from our side).
- Fixed many typos.

**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.