Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

Ride for Ruin Beta Branch
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Update: 10 Aug, 2023 @ 8:13am

1.01.07B:

Features:
-Restructured the entire technology tree. All techs now belong to one of four categories (Metallurgy, Carpentry, Agriculture, Organisation). Each category has a ‘main’ branch that removes hefty research penalties from tech by year.
-Support companies now use unique & upgradeable equipments rather than generic support equipment
Balance:
-Split Engineers into Campaign Engineers (granting defense and movement bonuses on rough ground, especially rivers) and Siege Engineers (granting attack and defense on Urban and Forts)
-Industrial farms now produce mounts instead of cloth
-Added super cheap & weak Improvised Infantry Weapons equipment that requires no research
-Split max factories in state & dockyard output into separate techs from concentrated/dispersed industry. Reduced their research times & gave concentrated an efficiency growth boost to compensate
-Fixed artillery buildings now longer take up shared slots, and have a maximum level of 10
-Reduced the range of fixed artillery buildings
-Reduced the research year for many techs. All techs lose their ahead of time penalty by 3022 at the latest
-White Mountain & Druedain units now start with javelins
-Superior firepower grants a 5% reduction in Bow & Spear cost
Graphics:
-Replaced the icons for all industrial technologies
-Replaced the icons & backgrounds for most tech folders
Localisation:
-Updated the names and descriptions for most civilian techs

Update: 2 Aug, 2023 @ 3:07pm

1.01.06B:

Features:
-Reskinned, rewrote, and rebalanced the entire cavalry designer; this includes chasses, modules, and roles
Balance:
-Rohan starts with a single 100% tech boost for Heavy Cavalry
-Ents are now analogous to heavy tanks rather than modern tanks, just like trolls
Graphics:
-Custom cavalry icons for Orcs (currently only applied to Mordor) & Rohan
-Updated the unit icons for all cavalry (except recon) & artillery brigades
-Updated the cavalry role icons
Bugfixes:
-Isengard cannot take “Skirmish at the Fords” if an ally owns The Gap of Rohan

Update: 9 Jun, 2023 @ 7:53am

1.01.05B:

Bugfixes:
-Accepting the event ‘Sauron Demands Submission’ now correctly puppets you rather than Dagorlad when you don’t have TfV, WTT, or DoD enabled
-Mordor now receives events informing them whether each country submitted or not

Update: 3 Jun, 2023 @ 3:16pm

1.01.04B
Features
-Added the new ‘Heavy Infantry’ & ‘Heavy Pikes’ units. They require the new ‘Infantry Armor’ equipment in addition to their weapons
-Added motorized versions of both Heavy Infantry & Heavy Pikes
-Split infantry weapons into 2 tracks: one handed and two handed. One handed weapons are more
Map
-Fixed a river that did not correctly appear above Linhir, in Belfalas
-Updated the XY coordinates of the various straight crossings to the new map
-Reworked Dorwinion’s victory point & supply setup
-Added naval bases & 2 dockyards to Dorwinion
-Switched a naval province from Mirkwood to Long Lake
-Switched the Haruzan state to the Near Harad strategic region
Balance:
-Made pikes into a more infantry-like unit. Pike units require 100 equipment & 1k manpower just like infantry. They have 60 organization (same as infantry) and 20 HP (5 fewer than infantry). They now have 2 combat width.
-Lowered the costs and anti-cavalry abilities of pike equipment, but increased its small attack, defense, and breakthrough
-Moved spear research into the infantry tab
-Removed armored cars (they might come back later)
-Reduced overall defensive & anti cavalry stats, as well as cost, for both types of infantry equipment
-Reduced the offensive stats of one handed infantry equipment
-Rangers count as infantry class units for the purpose of unit modifiers
-Mordor’s focus “End the Age of Men” now grants wargoals against all of Gondor’s subjects
Graphics
-Added flags for the Goblins of the Windy Mountains
-Updated the unit icons for infantry, motorized, & pikes
-Updated the resource icons
-Updated the generic light cavalry icons
-Updated the icons for infantry equipment, armor, and spears. Gave Gondor a unique set
-Updated the support equipment icon
-Updated Gundabad’s flag & added variants for each ideology
Localisation:
-Renamed several unit stats to reflect that vanilla armor is represented as mounted units:
-‘Armor’ is now ‘Size’
-‘Hardness’ is now ‘Largeness’
-‘Piering’ is now ‘Reach’
-‘Hard Attack’ is now ‘Large Attack’
-‘Soft Attack’ is now ‘Small Attack’

Update: 28 May, 2023 @ 3:33pm

1.01.03B
Bugfixes
-fixed merge conflicts with 2 states

Graphics
-updated minimap to new map

Localisation:
-fixed the localisation of the Steppe Heritage idea

Update: 28 May, 2023 @ 2:14pm

1.01.02B
Features:
-If you accept the event “Sauron Demands Submission”, you automatically annex all of your subjects
Map:
-Expanded the map to the East coast of Middle Earth. The new area includes about 4,500 provinces
-The Sea of Rhun, Celduin, and Long Lake are now navigable naval regions
-Reworked the map of Rhovanion, Rhun, and Khand
-Reworked the naval map, generally reducing the density of naval regions
-Added 5 provinces to Eriador
-Updated the tree map to align with provincial terrain
-All single province lakes now belong to a state
Graphics:
-Updated the resource icons
-Updated the fort, highway, & industrial fort building icons
-Update Dale & Dorwinion’s main flags
Localisation:
-Changed several states & countries to their common, rather than Sindarin, names