Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

Lord of the Rings : Expanded
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Update: 5 Aug, 2024 @ 12:00pm

Version 2.0 : Major update

- Fixed 70+ bugs
- Polished and added new content for Goblin Town, Rhovanion, Free Rhun and Logath
- Huge Rhun focus and overall content polish
- Huge Dorwinion focus and overall content update
- Huge Ered luin overhaul
- Angmar focus tree update
- Fixed Northern Wastes border
- Improved Erebor focus tree
- Improve AI strategies
- Fixed interface cube bugs
- Supply overhaul
- New technologies
- New equipment
- New scripted events
- New city GFX
- Lore accuracy polish

Many more things, but these are the major features.

Delayed :
- new GFX icons
- AI area development

Update: 15 Jun, 2024 @ 10:59pm

Version 1.51a : Bugs and balancing fix

- Fixed defensive doctrine bug
- Fixed building slots bug
- Fixed Rhun and Dorwinion victory points
- Rhun and Mordor cannot join other factions unless through focuses to prevent exploits
- Rhun is now a frontpage bookmark

Update: 14 Jun, 2024 @ 10:44pm

Version 1.51 : Bugs and balancing hotfix

- Fixed a consumer goods bug
- Restructured Erebors industrial base complex
- Ered Luin ideology fixes
- Erebor resources fixed
- Fixed several bugs with Infrastructure department
- Fixed several bugs with Royal Defense Council
- Fixed "Militarism'' loc bug
- Lowered Mordor's manpower
- Fixed issues with Rhun focuses
- Rhun starts out as own faction
- Improved Rhun's AI strategy planning

Update: 14 Jun, 2024 @ 3:47am

Version 1.5 : Major Update

Content :
Complete Erebor Overhaul :
- New Erebor Focus Tree
- New states
- Autonomy changes

General :
- Major Manpower Rework
- Map resources refactor and balance

Bugs and other :
- Fixed 30+ bugs
- Fixed an issue where models and other assets would display as cubes
- Additional AI strategy plans and improvements to AI
- Compatibility with newest game and mod version

Update: 8 Mar, 2024 @ 9:38am

LOTR : Expanded Compatibility patch

Most recents main-mod update broke the submod. I have implemented these fixes and some additional quality of life changes to make the submod compatible and working again..

- Fixed equipment_l_english
- Fixed unit_l_english
- Fixed lotr_technologies_l_english
- Fixed history/countries
- Fixed history/units
- Fixed an issue with overriding GFX files
- Fixed an issue with unitstacks
- Fixed an issue with buildings
- Fixed an issue with states
- Fixed an issue with provinces
- Fixed an issue with GFX/interface

- Added more supply hubs and railways in Rhun area
- Added more requirements for Rhun to do certain focuses
- Fixed an issue where the Easterlings were available to multiple countries from the start

Update: 10 Feb, 2024 @ 11:23am

Version 1.44 : Patch with various bug fixes and new quality of life features

- Fixed mordor revolutionary event issue
- Fixed an issue with focus locs
- Fixed an issue with national spirits loc
- Fixed an issue where you couldn't get Pallando
- Added more railways in logath and rhun
- Removed Erebor core from dale
- Must not have repairing economy spirit for focus rebuild economy
- Fixed an issue where non-dwarven nations join the Dwarven clans and/or Erebor / other members leave/want to assume leadership.
- New Ered Luin ai strategy
- New Wainrider unit for Rhun (unlocked from start)
- New Sauron unit for Mordor (unlocked by doing unleash sauron focus)

Update: 5 Feb, 2024 @ 8:43am

Version 1.43 : Rhun Hotfix for various bugfixing quality of life

- Chief advisors
Pre fix : One chief advisor that wasn't able to be bought
Fix : Brought back Chief Advisors and custom for cooperative
- fix master of war gives heat accl
Pre fix : Broken master of war trait
Fix : Removed and replaced
- Northmen wargoal
Pre fix : wargoal broken
Fix : Fixed
- Dwarven clans faction issue
Pre fix : ered luin would become stronger than erebor after a little while and take over hte faction, causing erebor to leave and making their (soon custom) focus tree irrelevant and making many other nations war goals irrelevant
Fix : Faction members of Erebor's Dwarven Clans can't take over the faction any longer
- Dale wargoal
Pre fix : wargoal broken
Fix : Fixed
- Logath
Pre fix : Logath was very weak
Fix : Made stronger, more manpower and starting divisions
- border war
Pre fix : border wars were completely broken and lackluster
Fix : Many events, working border wars and fun mechanics
- ai strategy plan
Pre fix : some issues with ai unhistorical belligerent
Fix : fixed the issues
- more victory points iron hills and grey mountains
Pre fix : grey mountains and iron hills capped too quick because of close victory points
Fix : added more cities/victory points
- resources SMM
Pre fix : SMM didn't have any resources
Fix : allocated some steel resources accross their mountains

Update: 1 Feb, 2024 @ 3:19pm

Version 1.42

- Various bugfixing and issues fixed
- Custom Rhun focus tree
- Custom Rhun battle plan
- New units (easterlings)

Update: 30 Jan, 2024 @ 8:33pm

Version 1.41 : Hotfix for various bugfixing quality of life

- Rhun start ideology
- Reworked Ered Luin resources (lower)
- World tension buildup for two focuses for ered luin from 5 each to 1.5 each
- Lowered manpower by 3/4 million ered luin
- Infrastructure focuses take 35 days
- Fixed ELU angmar campaign focus coding issue
- Tackle Mordor requires to not be in a faction with mordor and necessary ally requires you to be belligerent or revolutionary
- When you do ''war of the ring'' focus a special template gets created that can't be deleted, trained, or altered, and when recruiting the units through focuses those units will use that template so they can't be cheesed / exploited.

Update: 29 Jan, 2024 @ 2:13pm

Alpha of update 1.4 is live!

New countries :
- Misty Mountains
- Southern Misty Mountains
- Goblin Town
- Logathavuld
- Free Rhun
- Emyn Engrin (Iron Hills)
- Ered Mithrin (Grey Mountains)
- Dunland

Reworked :
- Gundabad
- Rhun
- Dorwinion
- Erebor
- Dale
- Mirkwood
- Entwood (territory and states only)

Alpha stage - No custom mechanics, focus trees, or excessive detail. That's for next patch, it was simply too massive of an update to keep track of everything to squeeze it all in a single one.