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Historical Poland: Beta Test v3
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-Content:
---Incorporated the 1.6.1 state changes to Lublin & Krakow
---Added stats and traits for Poland's naval leaders
---Added Jan Grudziński as a new Artic Water Expert naval leader within the Naval Officer's School national focus
---Added a new portrait of Ignacy Mościcki courtesy of a collaborative effort with VladimirLemon from the R56 artist team

-Balance:
---Slightly tweaked Poland's starting equipment stockpiles
-----More of Poland's starting infantry equipment is now basic level (1/3rd approximately now)
---Lithuanian Constitutional Crisis Manpower requirements have been increased to 625k soldiers in the field to avoid exploits

-Bug Fixes:
---Vistula-Narew Defense Line is now properly translated in the Polish localization
---Lithuanian Constitutional Crisis now removes the claim/core on the correct Wilno province

Update: 10 Mar, 2019 @ 6:25am

Fixed an issue with duplicate 3D unit sprites.

Update: 10 Mar, 2019 @ 5:55am

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Latest Update - 3/10/2019 - Man the Guns Compatibility Update
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Patch Notes:
-Land OOB changes::
---Added 11 units to the 1936 start: 1 additional motorized artillery unit and 10 artillery groups
-----Each "Grupa artylerii" contains four line artillery
-------We have not increased Poland's starting equipment significantly. That 1000 starting artillery in stockpile seen in prior versions is now on the starting map.
-------Each of these 10 Grupa artylerii units was historically part of an army corps command and would have been committed to important operations for concentrated breakthroughs (use its soft attack in a similar manner, but beware the effect of enemy CAS)
---Poland now starts with military police and maintenance company researched.

-Naval OOB changes::
---Poland's starting naval techs have been changed.
-----Poland now starts with 1936 destroyers researched and 2 destroyer templates--Gryf class and the very modern Grom class.
-----Maritime Defense fund now instantly researches 1936 submarine hull tech and grants a Orzel Class submarine template
---Despite being launched in March 1936, we have decided to go ahead and represent the ORP Gryf at the start of the game.
---Poland now starts with a Light Cruiser, the ORP Bałtyk
-----The ORP Bałtyk is a stripped down hull with only AA guns used as a training school. With proper investment, the player can refit it into a proper warship once again.
-----The Naval Officer's school focus will grant a free cruiser template for this refit. (It will be a capital ship in-game since the D'Entrecasteaux class chose armament over protection)

-Castle and Sanation Right rework::
---Castle's focus tree branch now offers some potential bonuses to naval production
---Devalue the Zloty is now changed to Strengthen/Devalue the Zloty and is available for both Castle and Sanation Right respectively
-----Sanation right can exchange the -20% factory output debuff on great depression for a -20% penalty to infantry equipment only allowing them to immediately build heavy weapons without penalty
---Sanation Right can now sell outdated infantry equipment to Nationalist and Republican Spain during the civil war in exchange for XP and temporary offmap military factories
---Wladyslaw Bortnowski is available as a Chief of the Army for Sanacja Right in 1940 if Zaolzie was annexed

-Focus Tree Changes::
---Several focuses have been changed to 50 days instead of 70 days. In many cases, the bonuses for these have been adjusted accordingly.
---Polish-German Trade Agreement now gives naval experience to Poland.
---"Study Foreign Ships" has been removed. "A Cruiser Navy" now gives tech bonuses to destroyers and cruisers.
---Study Foreign Tanks now applies a research bonus to amphibious tanks if the 7TP is already researched
---The Gundlach Periscope is now a focus that gives a bonus to maximum tank, tank destroyer, and recon company organization
-----Rudolf Gundlach is now available as a theorist giving bonuses to tank production
---"Committee for Defense of the Republic" now gives +0.01 army xp daily and a 10% civ to mil conversion bonus
-----This gives just about 10 army XP over the course of three years
---Berlinka Highway Project now reduces world tension if Germany agrees
---Vistula-Narew defense line now connects Modlin and Brest Fortress with a line of weak forts and then swings north to Bialystok

-Map Changes::
---Modlin Fortress is now a victory point on the map to help the player be aware that exists as a valuable strategic asset
---Re-arranged victory points to include more in the Romanian Bridgehead. You will still need the romanian bridgehead strategy focus to not capitulate.
---The 4 primary depots for the Polish Army are now represented as fuel silos (1 Lodz, 1 Warsaw, 2 in Lublin)
---Danzig is now state id 788

-Equipment Localization
---Poland's 1940 Amphibious Tank is now the PZInż 130
---Poland's 1941 Mechanized Amphibious Transport is now the PZInż 152
---Poland's 1934 Tank Destroyer is now the PZInż 160
-----All three of these vehicles historically used the 4TP chasis

-GFX::
---Implemented national focus icons from Man the Guns and produced several new icons
---Added flavor decisions to Castle and Endecja
---Added the Polish Underground Anthem as a song

-Army in Exile:: (Man the Guns Only)
---As a temporary measure to hold things over until we can make a proper exiled focus tree, we have added a single focus called "Evacuate Poland's Gold Reserves" to give offmap military factories as a government in exile.
-----Note: we recommend that you use the console command to transfer a state if you end up as a government in exile under the UK as you cannot build ships (no ports to place them) and thus will be stuck on the island. (Paradox must fix this oversight.)

Update: 23 Jan, 2019 @ 4:42pm

-Focus Tree Pruning:
-In general, we are happy with the reception to our last round of changes to speed up the focus tree. We've received feedback that some areas of the tree still need tweaks to increase the pacing.
---The following focuses have had their times adjusted:
-----Interventionist Foreign Policy is now 35 days (from 70)
-----Military Aviation Exports is now 20 days (from 35)
-----Medium Bomber development is now 50 days (from 70)
-----Expand the Polish Cipher Bureau is now 50 days (from 70)
-----Baltic Alliance is now 35 days (from 70)
-----Mobilization Plan W is now 35 days (from 70)
---Plan W has been moved to the mobilization branch; in its place, added a new focus Artillery Motorization for 35 days

-Decisions:
---In anticipation of upcoming MtG changes, Sanation Right's artillery motorization decisions have been removed
---Rebalanced Sanation Right's army reform decisions; less penalties to infantry will be applied
---Front Morges can now offer democratic Czechoslovakia temporary protection to become a dominion if they yield during Sudetenland crisis

-Balance:
---Added Polbryt as naval company
---Agrarian Reform now grants +5% stability
---Invest in the Middle Class: Production retention factor reduced by 5%
---Worker's Brigades: Bonuses increased from 20% to 25% for repair
---Draw Closer to France now removes the non-aggression pact with Germany; Cost to buy French tanks now requires less political power
---Land Mine Detectors now grants a minor bonus to reduced army attrition and land fort attack
---Folk High Schools time to complete has been increased to 50 days (from 35)
---Seek Autonomy now grants on completion a +150 autonomy bonus after doing Beck-Molotov Pact
-----The time to independence from dominion status with Gomulka's trait is now effectively 4 years

-Lategame:
-As we prune the focus tree, a concern arises that players might run out of focuses to do during lategame, so we've added industry development beyond 1939
---All five phases of the 15-year plan are now represented as national focuses
---In reality, each phase was supposed to last 3 years, but for gameplay, we've condensed these into two-year phases finally ending in the fifth phase for 1948-1950
---Starting in 1940, every two years, the player can select to do the next phase of the 15-year plan
---The first phase begins with the historical army modernization & rearmament plan for Poland's military to be completed by 1942

-Bug Fixes:
---Fixed a bug with the bypass conditions on Kasprzycki-Gamelin Convention
---Theoretical Medium Tank development decision for Sanation Right now correctly applies to the 20TP instead of the 40TP
---Fixed some errors in the Polish localization for Sanation Right's army reform decisions

-GFX:
---When Poland capitulates, the communist party will become GL (Gwardia Ludowa)
---Added new portraits for the Directorate of Ukraine:

Update: 17 Jan, 2019 @ 1:22pm

Minor Polish translation fixes.

Update: 17 Jan, 2019 @ 12:43pm

Overtime, our focus tree has grown rather large, so we've overhauled the entire design to quicken its pacing:
Special thanks also goes to Vapinus on steam for the inspiration for some of the ideas within this update:

-Focus Tree Overhaul:
---NEW streamlined military focus branch
-----Wz. 35 anti-tank rifle now fully researches the technology instead of providing a percent tech bonus
-----Starachowice and Cegileski focuses now provide a 35% tech bonus instead of 50%
---Separated the National Defense Fund into its own separate war-time economy focus branch
---NEW streamlined industrial focus branch
-----More industry focuses are availble at 35 days, but Central Industrial Region/15-year plan require 1939 to activate
---NEW streamlined naval focus branch
-----Added the maritime defense fund which gives an overstrength marine brigade and a Dutch submarine license
---Foritifcation focuses and ideology selection focuses are now 20 days
---ONR can still create a faction if spain loses the spanish civil war
-----ONR can now invite Hungary
---Decryption bonuses from Polish cipher bureau spirits have been creased to +0.1/+0.3/+0.4/+0.5

-PPS Rework:
---PPS is now democratic by default
-----Tomasz Arciszewski is now the President of Poland when PPS is in power
-----Kazimierz Puzak is the leader for the government in exile under PPS
-----New focus: Align with Japan is now available for Sanacja left and PPS
---If Trotsky is in power in the USSR without a great purge starting, a PPS-radical civil war path is available to flip to communism

-Political Changes:
---the default communist party is now the KPP
-----Julian Leszczynski is now the default communist leader (will be purged by the Soviets)
---The default democratic party is now SL instead of PSL
-----the democratic party is renamed to PSL if poland is puppeted by the soviet union
---ND has been corrected to its Polish translation: SN (Stronnictwo Narodowe)
---Added new ministers for SN and ONR

-Army in Exile:
-In preparation for the upcoming expansion we've added several art assets
---Added several army in exile generals
---ONR becomes KN (Konfederacja Narodu) upon capitulation
---PPS becomes PPS-WRN (Wolnosc, Równosc, Niepodleglosc) upon capitulation
---SN becomes NOW (Narodowa Organizacja Wojskowa) upon capitulation

-Events:
---If the league of nations votes against Poland in Pressure Danzig, Poland can start a border war with Germany
---If Germany refuses Silesia or War, the Czechoslovakian AI will be more willing accept a call to arms against Germany
---Plage i Laskiewicz or Ford Polska & Fiat will be available as a result of options from Castle's Devalue Zloty event
---Renew non-aggression pact decisions with Germany and USSR now require their approval. If they accept, tension decreases.
---Promethean Progam is now available to democratic PPS and Front Morges

-GFX:
---Added several new focus tree icons
---New 3d unit sprites for Polish motorized, marines, and cavalry
---Added a communist leader portrait for Danzig
---Danzig is now a hybrid of Germany and Poland's map colors

-Misc:
---Modlin Fortress is now represented on the map at start
-----If Juliusz Rommel doesn't decide to surrender early, be prepared for a multi-month siege
---Beck-Molotov Pact cannot be selected if the Soviets have agreed to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
---Added 3 music tracks (1 naval, 1 socialist, and 1 for capitulation)
---Added chief of staff ministers for several ideologies

-And tons of tiny changes everywhere that are too extensive to list in this humongous update

Update: 13 Nov, 2018 @ 12:53am

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Latest Update - 11/13/2018 - Polish Generals & Balance Update
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New Generals:
-New generals have been added based on ideology and year of promotion/assignment
-a total of 27 new generals have been added on top of the existing set already in the mod
-Several existing leaders & generals have received minor portrait improvements
-Jozef Unrug is now an admiral at the start
-Added a decision to give the head of the British military mission in Poland, Sir Carton de Wiart, citizenship

GFX:
-A dozen new national focus icons have been added
-New national spirit icons courtesy of the Road to 56 dev team
-added new army group icons for Poland
---1st mechanized army, 2nd Ander's army, the Polish Home Army, and Army in the East are represented

Starting OOB changes:
-Poland now starts with a license for AT guns from sweden
-Polish cavalry now have support AT in their template
-the elite Border Defense Corps are now available on the map at the start of the game
---National Defense fund now raises 14 historical National Defense independent reserve brigades
Poland now starts with a non-aggression pact with Romania as part of their pre-existing alliance

Tank Tech tree Rework
-New tank research tree based on historical theoretical blueprints
-Polish super-heavy tank is now named appropiately based on the science fiction novel source material PDX derived the design from
-based on its speed, the 10TP is now the tier 3 Polish light tank
-Cruiser tank experiments now gives an ahead of time bonus to the 10TP and a lesser bonus for the 14TP
-Study Foreign tanks now gives a 75% research bonus for the 4TP or 7TP
-the 9TP is now available as a variant of the 7TP via cruiser tank experiments focus

Focus tree changes:
-Gdynia Universal seaport, military aviation exports, and ND's research slot are now 35 days
---Gdynia Seaport now gives 1 less dockyard and the variants created by aviation exports have been slightly decreased in power as a result
-The naval branch has been tweaked to allow for ship bonus focuses to be selected uninterrupted
-Research slot focuses have been given unique names
-Reaffirm ties with romania now has a diplomatic option for joint military exercises that gives military experience instead
-KOR committee and Romanian Bridgehead focuses no long army experience
---A historical event now triggers called the "Great Volhynia Maneuvers" which gives 10 military experience
-----usually fires in 1938, but can happen earlier if neighbors undertake aggressive actions
-Atomic Research Institute has been renamed the "Lwow School of Mathematics"
-"Polish Paramilitarism" has been renamed to "Class 'A' Reservists" to better clarify the historical precedent for the manpower bonus

Big Fixes:
-Fixed mixing Polish localization lines
-Fixed potential rare crashes involving deleting generals in certain events
-fixed a bug where Puzak could be the communist leader when a Soviet puppet

Misc:
-Added 7 new music tracks (2 communist, 5 regular)
-And lots of other minor things & changes that have probably been forgotten during documentation