Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

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Realistic Air Missions - DEPRECATED
   
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Realistic Air Missions - DEPRECATED

Description
Realistic Air Missions v3.4

The most important features provided with this mod now come baked in the game. As such, it is discontinued.

This mod started out as a very simple and lightweight tool to add historical mission capabilities to existing vanilla aircraft (you can access to that here). However, in time, it has grown into a substantial overhaul of the air tech tree and the way aircraft work.



HOW IT WORKS:

With this mod you will get:

- Added mission capabilities for fighters, heavy fighters, medium bombers and heavy bombers.
- An improved air tech tree that is more historically correct and logical. For example; apart from the Sea Hurricane and the Seafire, all carrier fighters were separate designs and not a variant of the land based versions. The same applies to carrier-borne dive and torpedo bombers as well. Hence, they get their own trees.
- New aircraft variants such as Fighter-Bombers and Maritime Patrol variants for bombers.
- A new tech line for large, long-range, maritime patrol flying boats.
- An overhaul of aircraft stats that turns aircraft research into a cost vs benefit decision. No more mindless research of all aircraft whose year has come. They now have their upsides and downsides, forcing you to make strategic decisions. (You can find the new stats with their comparisons here[docs.google.com].)
- More historical researchable aircraft types, rather than experimentals and prototypes (where possible).
- An expanding library of country specific aircraft models and graphics in future updates.

CONFLICTING MODS

Check the "Mod Compatibility List" for more information.
Do report and contribute with the mods you are using.

If you are having compatibility issues and/or would prefer the previous version with only the mission extensions, go here.


ISSUES

- A couple of plane icons in the airfield selection interface are placed further down then they should be. This became an issue after the 1.4 update and I have not been able to find the cause yet.
- Apparently one cannot assign air wings that can perform naval missions to armies. This seems to be a Paradox sourced issue. Don't yet know if this is modifiable, but I highly doubt it, because mission parameters are hard coded.


PLANNED FUTURE EXPANSIONS

- More real aircraft for minor countries with their names and graphics.

- An overhaul of jet aircraft trees.


OTHER MODS THAT USES THIS MOD
- The Road To '56
- Extended Technology + Industry + Equipment
- Millenium Dawn: Modern Day Mod (future update)
- Vanilla+ (future update)
*Disclaimer: The likelihood of these mods using an obsolete version is high.

Special thanks goes to:
- FoxHound; for making most of the flying boat graphics.
- Louella; for her keen eyes.
- Axe99; for lending me an ear when I needed it.
- Most importantly, Hauptbahnhof Alex; the mod couldn't have existed without his generosity.
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474 Comments
alfieprior605 12 Oct, 2024 @ 7:28am 
yo kinda late
dziadek 21 Oct, 2022 @ 8:23am 
This mod (when played with Barbarossa) - it breaks the research. Can;t access research trees.
TheColbster 30 Jun, 2022 @ 3:27pm 
Does the AI produce all these planes too? Last time I used this mod they didn't produce much aircraft if i remember correctly (over a year ago)
Yumeido 2 Feb, 2022 @ 1:09pm 
Hi,

Yes I still am, apologies. I have been dealing with personal issues which haven't allowed me to do HoI4 stuff in a little bit, but I'll be back to it within the next couple of weeks.
abadon-2 31 Jan, 2022 @ 1:44pm 
any plans on updating
BlueMoonTR 3 Dec, 2021 @ 10:16am 
*need update for 1.11
Yumeido 20 Nov, 2021 @ 5:42pm 
@Jazuken Yeah unfortunately no, most mods aren't compatible with KR due to it being a massive overhaul.

@jaymiemcgregor8 A tree review is in the works as well, might not make it in the next update as that one will involve some bug and cosmetic fixes. But it is in mind.
KosmicRavioli  [author] 20 Nov, 2021 @ 5:00pm 
@Jazuken; I don't think so. It's currently just being maintained. I honestly don't have the time (and more importantly the will) to undertake such a massive redesign.
Jazuken 17 Nov, 2021 @ 1:06pm 
Are there any plans on making this compatible with Kaiserreich?
JamieA 8 Oct, 2021 @ 4:43pm 
@Yumeido with the us plane tree u really need to rework the models the models arnt historical there is a mariner as a avenge and u also need to rework the 1940 fighter model if tht happens it would be great so it looks historically accurate in my opion u should go over all of the trees and compare them to historical models and see if they match up or the trees wont look historically accurate as wht they used to be its a great mod u just have to rework the models and also the soviet tree is also off with fighter 40 because the laag 3 wasnt used it was acctually the yak 1 tht replaced the laag 3 because the laag was a failed design so they started producing the yak 1 which was a carrier fighter 1st but they reworked the yak 1 so it could be better on land