Our git is public so you can actually check all changes we make

@Poisoned Idea I have the feeling the wehraboo devs remove a buff from the USSR every update anyways.

Playing for soviets and don't have buffs for civ industry from decision Dalselmash and from extra civilian fuel.

@Sol Inherent I think the attribute of armored reconnaissance company is low, because in reality, armored reconnaissance vehicles are often more suitable for reconnaissance missions than motorcycles and light tanks.Countries have also equipped armored vehicles for reconnaissance of armored divisions

@gigo123black
depends on the difficulty-level; usualy ITA joins axis soon after fall of Paris [on the easiest level ITA in my games once joined axis even BEFORE western campaign] - be patient!

Playing as germany, Italy refuse to join Axis. I completed the focus alliance with Italy, and this didn't help. Without Italy support, I can't capture France

I'm playing on Black Ice difficulty.

Separate topic: Playing as Germany, cruiser to carrier conversions can only have the tier 1 "Early Hullform". That's sufficient for converting Emden class cruisers, but can't convert other cruisers with a tier 2 "Improved Hullform". Previously the other hullforms were available and all other cruisers could be converted.

What difficulty are you on?

Something's broken with Allied AI land unit experience. Majority of Belgium's divisions are elite before any fighting started. Ditto with France -- majority are max level 21 elite of elite before any fighting starts.
This is probably why everyone's saying it's more difficult.

For some reason the German Focus tree is now the vanilla tree? Is it supposed to be that now or have i screwed something up somehow?

This was on normal difficulty; I doubt I would have succeeded on a harder mode. Maybe its now necessary on harder difficulty to actually research the blitzkrieg tree and build panzer divisions; or wait until later april / may 1940 for the buffs to wear off

Netherlands, Belgium and France early attack is now more difficult; but not impossible. I attacked Poland at end of March 1939; and invaded the West around end of April. Using just massed infantry with only the starting 3 light tank divisions I was able to take out Netherlands and Belgium a bit more slowly than normal, but doable without needing air support which I saved for France.
France ... was much tougher. I guess the attack was end of May 1939 and here I did need to use my air support. I managed to push France back to the outskirts of Paris by July; but here things became something of a grinder. Attacking Paris directly does not work, I had to take the North cities for the supply and break through on either side of Paris which took a long time.
I ending up creating a reasonable encirclement of Paris, Versailles shortly after which France surrendered towards end of October.
Cost was 325k men for just France so a lot more than normal

@LiL*sussy
Bro, I have also encountered the same predicament as you. In the latest update, the Netherlands and Belgium have become more difficult to conquer than before :(

imposible to beat BENELUX what happend? 2nd hardest difficult. Stuck in belge. New mechanics?? and what about airplane losses. Some tips? thx

The troops can only update to level 19 during war

no

can BI work with front-line ai mod?

are you playing on highest difficutly?

Army attack plan preparation does not build anymore. Max is set at zero. Is that intended as a new feature?

They already disabled the logic of irrelevant AI countries to improve performance.

@Sol Inherent

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3438914205

Hello, could this MOD be built-in in BICE to improve the game performance? After all, many countries never participated in World War II, yet they imposed a considerable burden on the CPU

@Sol Inherent
Hello, at the beginning of the game, a large number of production lines were not allocated mio, so we had to add them one by one manually, which was very cumbersome

I agree with Kassad, I improved relations with Russia to +66 and yet when i check why Russia is refusing market access, it says their opinion of me is 7 (which is actually my opinion of them).

Im playing as italy, and during the Spanish Civil war, i noticed how Germany's expeditionary force to help the nationalists, sometimes just sit there and dont do anything. They left for example a strong panzer division just next to an important supply depot, and let the nationalists get crushed by a small republican force and take the supply depot..

I think this last update bugged market access opinion bonuses / maluses. For instance, as Germany, "likely to accept fascist pressure" has a -100 malus to acceptance on Nationalist Spain. Similar things happening with all countries, I think, where country opinion bonuses are not registering properly (+4 from opinion with Japan even though they have +38 opinion). This didn't happen before this update.

I waited longer to attack France (march 1939) and built a ton of fighters and needed them allies had 4600 fighter in Belgium this time, but I had 3200 BF109 E's and some radar , it was enough, but France is no slouch anymore.

Phony war is a concept i get in reality, but what does that mean in game terms? Phony war start with war in Poland?
They weaken (debuff) the longer the war goes on? if so attacking Poland earlier and/ or delaying attack on France after Poland is required, cause man they have like 3500 fighters in Belgium from the start on 3 straight games, Thats hard to overcome even with some debuffs.

France has been heavily buffed. They now got an increasing modifier that weakens them during the phony war

Anyone else been having alot more resistance from France as German attacker. 3 games in a row and France has held like never before. Maybe just coincidence.

@viking any tipps for playing USSR, since it is extremely nerfed to the ground in this mod?

get Man the Guns DLC

Why are there no research opportunity for capital ships? You are stuck wiith 1922 models.....

Is there a way to play with the historical german division counters when choosing NATO counters? Right now the historical icons are only shown when i don't choose the NATO counters which is pretty annoying.

THX for update, good job. :-)

Thanks for the update guys, appreciate it truly.

do i use the test version of the mod if i wish to install an older version of the mod?

@viking, used to be alternative battalion in division template design - is it changed?

Playing USSR and by September 1942 have completed guard formation focuses but can't see how to create guard units. Am I missing something

@jellyjam2 This is because u are loading a save from older BICE versions. I need to manually clone their code from Gitlab to find their older commits.

The GUI for PP, War Support, Stability, Food etc. is not working properly, It's seriously hard to play in the current state.

Spain AI will never join Axis even if Spain get Vichy's Morocco and Algiers in Hendaye meeting events. (Because Spain has select a neutral NF path and has 2 modifier, -1000 AI acceptance to join factions) . Also, if GER choose to accept Spain's extreme demands, the economic aids will never end (30+ civ factories!). I agree this is a historical mod but when player choose alternative options there should be a reasonable awards and effect (like removing the AI modifier and set a time limit to the economic aids)

Just wanna say that the AI doesn't work with the research slots. Exemple, there is a research slots for navy, army, etc. Well, when i was in observe command (not ironman), the AI was doing production research in a navy slot.

Are you going to fix the problem with the capital ship research?
I dont have man the guns and currently there is no research tree for capital ships

yeah what happend with checksum

what is checsum for update today?

@jellyjam2 it happens often.

4 games now and Japan Ai just keep rolling over all of China Ai, full conquest by 1939'.. Just me or are other experiencing this.

Great mod! Thanks for all the effort you guys put in. To contribute a bit: I also had China surrendering completely to Japan in my last game, since the update.

3 games now since the latest BICE update and Japan seems to be defeating China completely all 3 games, coincidence or what may have change to cause this?

My save game was crashed by the Paradox update today, was on open beta.....rolled beta back to 1.16.4.....same save game is good to go!!!

would have a plane designer?