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Stalemate: the Frozen War 1.3.4.1 'Iberian Battle Royale'
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Update: 27 Jul @ 9:14am

Bugfixes

-Albanian focuses 'Reclaim Northern Epirus' and 'Attack Bulgaria' now require Greece and Bulgaria to exist respectively, rather than both requiring Montenegro to exist.
-Removed the modded countries from the vanilla civil war events.
-Monarchist Portugal now gains claims on the proper states when completing the 'Claim Western Iberia' focus.

Graphics

-Updated Fernando de Quintanilha's commander and advisor portraits to be age-accurate.

Localization

-The idea 'The red Menace' has been renamed to 'The Red Menace'.
-The description for the 'The Treaty of Zagreb' idea and Italy's initial lore event have been adjusted so they adjust to the lore.
-Fixed minor spelling mistakes in the Croatian and Italian focus trees.
-The tooltip in the Catalan focus 'Escalate Tensions in the Rosselló' now properly mentions the country that owns the Rosselló state.
-Made the tooltip in the Croatian focus 'Eradicate the Rebellion' more clear about the unlocked decision being on-map.

Update: 22 Jul @ 9:38am

Stalemate: the Frozen War 1.3.4 'Iberian Battle Royale'

Balance

-José Antonio more likely to ignore threats in Falangist power struggle.
-Portugal cores Brazil via new focus ‘Consolidate American Lusitania’, not ‘Protectors of the Lusitanian Peoples’.
-Ottoman 'Decline' idea can now be removed gradually via political trees.
-Turkish/Ottoman railway level gain reduced from 2 to 1.
-Increased oil from Ottoman focuses ‘Profit from Azerbaijan Oil’ & ‘Develop Mashriqi Oil Fields’.
-Balkan countries lose some guarantees when turning fascist/communist.
-Turkey always prioritizes withdrawal from Middle East.
-Serbia starts with Interwar Artillery for full support arty use.
-Soviet AI no longer sends volunteers to Spain.
-Turkish AI accepts all events during War of Liberation.
-Austrian navy halved; Ottoman, Portuguese, Catalan navies increased.
-Reduced factories in Russian/Soviet industry branches.
-Tangiers & Suez can't create or join factions.

Bugfixes

-Ottoman decision to core Turkestan includes Esqabad.
-‘March Southwards’ no longer gives Sudan wargoal if Sudan doesn't exist.
-Fevzi Çakmak now included in Ottoman PM restriction.
-Ungern-Sternberg always leads Mongol uprising.
-Soviet focuses/decisions added to influence/conquer Lithuania & Belarus.
-‘Interests in China’ focus gives war goals on more warlords.
-Balkan ‘Expand Mining’ focus requires 8 total civs, not 1 state with 8.
-Serbia now starts with ‘Underdeveloped Industrial Sector’.
-Balkan countries get Balkan SSR tag after completing focus.
-Trotsky arrival events (Mexico/Norway) disabled.
-CSA won’t get 2nd Civil War if puppeted.
-French monarchist focuses can be taken even if non-aligned/puppet.
-‘Rebuild the Empire’ can now be taken if UK is non-aligned.
-Portugal’s peace offer to Congo removed if Congo surrenders.
-Nationalist Spain gets correct spirit with Amadeo II.
-Miguel Ponte keeps portrait after Civil War starts.
-Miguel Cabanellas removed as advisor if he's leader.
-Starting ‘Truck’ tech includes ‘Early Truck’.
-Germany gains cores on German-speaking Benelux/Swiss states.

Game Content

-Ottoman decision to integrate Socotra & Suez added.
-Ottoman/Turkish military trees now give army/navy/air spirits.
-New Ottoman/Turkish focuses for steel/chromium production.
-Turkey can build oil refineries in Azerbaijan if kept.
-Ottoman/Turkish trees compacted; now collapsible.
-Morocco now has starting army & air force.
-Balkan countries can change tag to Yugoslavia.
-Removed some TOA vanilla events (e.g. Bolivian coup).
-Ottoman war goal on Poland includes Galicia-Lodomeria.
-Aryavartia AI surrenders to Britain at 80% surrender.
-‘Form Renovación Española’ properly changes party name.
-Removed unused vanilla national spirits from countries w/o Stalemate trees.
-France no longer becomes Free France upon capitulation.
-Vichy France disabled.
-Fascist/Monarchist Italy can restore Rome via ‘Mediterranean Ambition’.
-Iberian monarchs removed from foreign thrones if annexed/puppeted/etc.
-European American colonies dismantled if annexed/puppeted.
-Catalan Free Territories & Portuguese 5th Empire dismantled under certain conditions.
-Turkey adopts ‘Turkish Emergency Junta’ in Liberation War.
-Turkish satellites renamed to Turkey.
-Russia starts with Light Tank model.
-Vanilla scientists added to major powers incl. Ottomans.
-Catalonia can destroy Eiffel Tower after devastating Paris.
-Spain can devastate Barcelona.
-Devastated cities get new named modifiers with icons.
-Spanish monarchs get Imperial portraits after restoring HRE.
-Spain must restore Empire to restore HRE.
-Portrait tooltips added for Iberian monarchs.
-Spanish monarchist party name changes with claimant (Alfonsist, Carlist, etc.).
-Duarte II gets new portrait when Brazil and Portugal unite.
-Tangiers guarantee revoked at Civil War start; tooltip added.

Graphics

-New Catalan infantry & Mosso skins.
-Updated icon for ‘Crush Republican Conspiracy’.
-New portrait: Krsto Poppvic (Montenegro).
-New GFX: 'Fall of X' events, 'Devastation of X' ideas/modifiers.
-Updated portraits & spirits for: Olga I, Mikhail II, Nikolai II, Jaime I, Alfonso Carlos I, Javier I, José Antonio, Borís I.
-Iberian characters get updated portraits/GFX.
-Spanish king-caudillos get updated portraits when crowned.

Localization:

-Fixed Bulgarian event title: ‘Italy Offers an Alliance’ (was misspelled).
-Fixed a typo in the Ottoman focus 'Develop Mashriqi Oil Fields' (formerly known as 'Develop Masriqi Oil Fields').
-The Ottoman focus 'Referendum In Turkestan' is now called 'Referendum in Kurdistan', as it's a focus related to Kurdistan rather than Turkestan.
-Fixed a typo in the Ottoman focus 'Turkish Foreign Policy' (formerly known as 'Turkis Foreign Policy').
-The Russian 'Leningrad & Minsk Class' ship is now called 'Petrograd'.
-Carlist Spain's non-aligned party is now always called 'Comunión Tradicionalista'.
-Many instances of 'infantry' being spelled as 'infrantry' have been fixed.
-Events of cities being devastated (Madrid, Paris...) are no longer called 'Rape of X', are each have been given their own unique name.
-Localization for the event chain and decisions related to Catalonia relocating the Eiffel Tower now changes depending on if Paris has been devastated or not.
-Updated the texts for some 'Fall of X' events.
-Updated the localization in some shared Balkan, Bulgarian, Greek and Catalan national focuses, national spirits and political parties for lore consistency.
-Corrected the name of Mikhail II from Mihail II.
-The United Kingdom of Portugal and Brazil is now called the Luso-Brazilian Empire.
-Monarchist Spain's fascist party after the Civil War starts is now called UME (Unión Militar Española) rather than PP (Paz y Prosperidad).
-Reduced the amount of text in 'Spanish-British Tensions Escalate Over Gibraltar' and 'Dom Duarte Nuno Coups the Estado Novo'.
-Adjusted the bookmark descriptions and initial lore events for the Iberian countries.

Map Changes

-Bahrain is now connected to Lahsa and Qatar through an adjacency.
-State 992 'Province of Aden' is now called simply 'Aden'.
-State 659 'Aden' is now called 'Hadhramaut'.
-Melilla province no longer has some disconnected pixels.
-France's navy in Beirut has been moved to Algiers.
-Canada now starts with the proper cosmetic tag.
-Reduced the size of the Zadar state, changed its name to Zara and added a Zara VP.

Lore

-Ante Pavelić never reorganized Croatia into Illyria. He also invited Aimone di Savoia to become King Tomislav II (the King can be removed via various focuses in the Croatian focus tree).

Update: 22 May @ 2:09pm

Stalemate: the Frozen War 1.3.3 'Iberian Battle Royale'

Balance

-Russia and the Soviets will always fully annex each other.
-The Portuguese factions are now more aggressive during the Civil War.
-The original Spanish tag will now raise divisions via decision.
-The 'Spanish Civil War' idea (formerly known as 'Death Before Surrender' now has extra supply efficiency. Supply efficiency decreases with each stage of the 'Defeatism' mechanic.
-The losing side of the Portuguese Civil War will now suffer considerable debuffs if the war reaches a Stalemate.
-Removed the 'Full Employment' national spirit from France.
-The French focus 'Encourage Immigration' now gives 100k manpower.
-Readjusted focus time completion and communist popularity gain for Portugal's 'O Mais Novo Dos Estados' branch, making it possible for it to turn communist sooner.

Bugfixes

-The British democratic sub-branch to ally the US no longer requires the UK to be a puppet.
-All Spanish factions that spawn after the start of the Civil War will now have all relevant focuses autocompleted.
-Russia no longer starts with the 'Trade Interdiction' Land Doctrine nor the 'Mobile Warfare' Naval Doctrine.
-The German Tank MIO 'Henschel' is no longer broken.
-The German focus 'Expand Dockyard Facilities' will now properly build the new dockyards.
-Ottoman focuses that give war goals against the Arabian countries now also give a war goal against Bahrain.
-Ottoman decisions to core Albania now require that you own Shkodër and core it when taken.
-The Ottoman focus 'Protect the Balkan Muslims' now also targets whosoever controls Shkodër.
-Anarchist Catalonia can no longer release nations.

Game Content

-Reduced the AI weights for all focuses.
-Balanced AI weights when choosing political paths on startup.
-Added AI path game rules for Spain.
-Germany can no longer ally Russia if they haven't conquered the Soviets.
-Added a 'Defeatism' system for the Spanish Civil War, through which the different Spanish factions lose the will to fight as they lose more territory. If they recapture their lands, these debuffs will be removed.

Localization

-The Stalemate main menu theme now has an appropriate name in the radio.
-The Ottomans will no longer be called 'Populism' if they get a generic leader with the 'Populism' sub-ideology.
-The 'Death Before Surrender' national spirit has been renamed to 'The Spanish Civil War'.
-The Spanish focus 'Dissolve the Cortes' has been changed to 'Crush the Republican Conspiracy', as in the lore, the Cortes were dissolved in 1931. The focus also has a new description.
-Fleshed out the tooltips of the Spanish focuses 'Crush the Republican Conspiracy' and 'La Segunda Gloriosa'.

Update: 11 May @ 8:42am

Stalemate: the Frozen War 1.3.2 'Iberian Battle Royale'

Balance

-Spanish factions can no longer join or create factions during the Spanish Civil War.

Bugfixes

-Literally tens of thousands of initial errors fixed.
-The Soviet Union can now release countries.
-Russian focuses to unite the Slavs will now also affect Belarus and Lithuania.
-Readjusted the states the Ottomans need to control for Britain to be able to take the 'Ultimatum to the Ottomans' and 'Oil Treaties with the Ottomans' focus trees.
-Britain will now cede all their colonial holdings in Arabia if the Ottomans accept the oil treaties.
-The Ottoman focus 'Ally the Young Turks' will now properly display İsmet İnönü as the advisor you unlock, rather than Nâzım Hikmet.
-All Spanish factions of the Civil War should now start with the Spanish focus tree.
-The focus 'Secure Manchuria' in the democratic Japan path will now also give a war goal against Kyokuto.
-When going down the path to form the European Union, France will now be unable to invite countries that they are at war with to the Union.
-Restored vanilla triggers and checks for guarantee rules, ensuring they once again account for ideology and world tension.

Game Content

-The Russian and Soviet focuses to demand Outer Manchuria now generate a war goal against Kyokuto if they are not a Japanese puppet.
-Monarchist Spain now has a more flavorful tooltip in the effects of the 'Dissolve the Cortes' focus.
-Portugal and Catalonia can now send volunteers to the Spanish during the Civil War.
-German cooperation focuses that are acts of good will toward either England or France will be bypassed if they have decided to abandon Europe.
-Germany now goes through a civil war after turning communist.
-French cooperation focuses that are acts of good will toward either England or Germany will be bypassed if they have decided to abandon Europe.
-Changed the order in which collaborationist France can influence Iberia, making it so they can attack Catalonia before attacking Spain.
-When going down the path to form the European Union, France will now gain war goals against non-democratic nations.
-Changed the order in which democratic anti-Europe France can invite countries to the Entente.
-The French focus 'Fascist Coup' will now trigger a civil war.
-Changed the order of the French fascist and monarchist focus trees so France can attack Spain later.
-British cooperation focuses that are acts of good will toward either France or Germany will be bypassed if they have decided to abandon Europe.
-The British focus 'Storm Buckingham Palace' now triggers a Civil War.
-Added checks and reduced ai weight factors on the expansion focus trees for Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. Hopefully, this will reduce the amount of wars and the general chaos of the mod.
-The Soviets now gain temporary buffs against Turkestan and the Cossacks in order to prevent them from getting bogged down in those wars.

Graphics

-George VI idea now has a GFX

Map Changes

-Removed the 'Kurdish Resistance' modifier from Mosul.

Update: 1 May @ 10:43am

Stalemate: the Frozen War 1.3.1 'Iberian Battle Royale'

Bugfixes

-Communist Germany can no longer influence and trigger civil wars in countries that are already communist.
-German focuses to crush the communists will no longer target Catalonia if Catalonia's not communist.
-Turkey now needs to control Tangiers in order to take the 'The Fate of Tangiers' focus tree.
-The event 'Prepare for War' for the Soviets will no longer fire endlessly.
-Turkey's Balkan Pact can no longer target countries they are allied with or are their subjects.
-The Ottomans' focuses to integrate parts of the Empire now will properly integrate all related states.
-France no longer starts with troops in Morocco.

Game Content

-Monarchist Spain's focus 'Invade California' will now transfer the Western US states to Mexico if the states are owned by a puppet of Spain or Spain.
-The Ottomans' focuses to expand into Sinkiang will now also target the Ma Clique if they have a Sinkiang core.

Graphics

-Adolf Hitler no longer has a generic portrait.
-Haiti now starts with its historical flag

Localization

-Fixed some minor spelling mistakes in focuses, events and decisions.

Update: 27 Apr @ 8:38am

Stalemate: the Frozen War 1.3.0.1 'Iberian Battle Royale'

-Test update.

Update: 27 Apr @ 8:18am

INITIAL RE-RELEASE

Stalemate: the Frozen War 1.3 'Iberian Battle Royale'

Game Content

-Added content for Portugal, Catalonia and Spain.
-Reworked monarchist and communist paths for Italy.

Map Changes

-Overhauled map of eastern Europe, China and Africa.

(About 3 or 4 years worth of changes, but those are the big ones, future change notes will be more detailed).