@Danceymetal what chapters did you manually release? The following tag (should...) all get automatically released: BSF MOJ GRD WBH TCA MXC MNC TBH BMW BAP BGF BLS

Oof, a lot to unpack there. What mods were you running? There's a focus in each chapter's tree that tells you chapters will be more likely to send volunteers - had you completed that? Was The Cause still at war with Washington when you triggered NCR War Volunteers?

Foreign council definitely seems off - chapters should be released automatically if you hold their territory, unless you'd already cored it yourself, I suppose. That's the easy one for me to look at lol

2 thing i've noticed, the first is that when I went to war with the NCR I did not recieve any volunteers from surviving chapters, they did get the spirit but like for the sisters of steel it said a gamerule prevented them from sending them, and the cause did not get the spirit at all. second thing is that "A Foreign Council" did not provide a decision to send aid or let me release chapters, I had to manually release them which gives the default BOS puppet tree which also stops stuff like San Franciso chapter giving you stuff in your Focus Tree

Ah, sorry. I don't actually support that. I've put in compatibility patches for the map expansion mods, so if they're on-map you can send them aid. (If there's any issues with it... let me know!)

Which focus allows you to send aid to the off map chapters? I like being able to keep the gulf chapter alive evem if they are off screen haha

Yep! I'll push out an empty update, just to make it clear at a glance.

Still working with all the updates?

Yes. Those are the mapmods I support, but you can play without them.

I list them since I get fewer questions about if they're compatible that way, haha!

does this mod work right now? ECR and its other dependencies are outdated

No problem, I wish you the best! It's definitely not an easy fight hahaha, I still don't win reliably. I wrote up a guide on the original Lost Hills release(in one of the owb communities... discord?), but a lot of that doesn't apply anymore.

Equipment Capture Ratio is very useful, so enhancing that through research/spirits/leader traits is all pretty helpful.

Hey, thanks for the response. I read t before posting and I'm pretty sure I fulfilled more than 2. Maybe there are still mechanics I don't understand and I am doing something wrong here. I'll continue to try, but 7 times in a row is frustrating :)

Hi Dark Sage, please see the FAQ at the end of the description. The BoS-NCR war is not easy after the power armour nerf, but the mod makes the war easier than vanilla.

I just can't win with this.

Easiest difficulty, everything researched, army of setries, best powerarmor an plasma rifles with expanded divisions (like 40 divisions when I tested with debug mode), 7-10 years pass and either Legion or NCR just steamroll me. Best I could do is survive few moths. I just don't know what I do wrong...

Thank you for your kindness! But, Ii such a mashup was to ever happen i'd want it to be between myself and AV's creator directly, not done by someone else. So I am withholding my permission on that - sorry.

Perhaps you can throw a few things in Suggestions that you think would improve LHE? Maybe i'll find out something you want is already in the mod and there's just not enough signalling for you to find it.

Could I try to make a mashup of this mod and ad victoriam? I feel like there are great aspects within both but no balance between the two.

G.O.A.T

Torni is the more "brotherhood" reformer. Llwyd is a more alt-history tack, where you do a lot more to emulate the NCRs structure, hopefully without its systemic corruption.

which si the better reformer , torni or llwyd

If they haven't locked in the NCR choice yet, there is a special operation you can do with your spies to boost the Brotherhood Sympathizers in Shi. If they have, there is nothing you can do. You can still get the Schematics from them through the "Avenging The Fallen" focus.

Is there any way to flip shi state to the brotherhood if they went NCR, or am I locked out of that part of the content?

Keep up the good work brother , Ad Victoriam!

There are Chapter focuses related to Taggerdy's group, yes. Those are vanilla focuses.

the required mods doesnt add any content to appalachia
But in the focus tree there is an appalachian branch is it normal

It's an either or situation, you can't use multiple overhaul submods for the same nation.

question is this compatible with Ad Victoriam or this is an either or situation

Thank you! And happy new year!

@Obsdiangolem You won't get a notification until their chapter conflicts spirit expires. If you yourself are unable to send volunteers for some reason (like being at war, or having not done the focus that lets you send volunteers yet - near the very start of the tree) you won't get one either.

If they become eligible later, the notification should still fire within a week of their chapter conflict spirit expiring, etc.

If you want to aid them during the period where they can't accept volunteers, you can use the Consider Aid decision unlocked by completing the Radio Towers focus, lend-lease them, or take the "Send an Expedition to the Mojave" decision unlocked by completing the New Expeditions focus.

The Mojave was attacked and I got no notifications for being able to send volunteers, is this working as intended? (Also, don't lister to Zoat)

@Incawgnito Try now!

For some reason having Fountain of Dreams in my game is disabling the scribe mechanic for Lost Hills. Might be doing something wrong on my end don't really know much about modding, just checking if this is a known problem, thanks for the help.

But I hate everything about the Lost Hills tree. The old version was better and had more story, which is ridiculous because it barely had any. It's so bad that it makes other focus trees worse just by existing. Fixing it would require reworking Shi, Guardians and the NCR in order to make it work.

To make the universal teleporter make sense they would have to either actually have a teleporter, or they would have to come to terms with the NCR first.

Thank you for the assist SilverHood! Doing that immediately...

Mr Zoat, I like the intention of it. This submod goes to some pains to add the feeling of distance to various aspects of the Brotherhood reaching across the wasteland (Expeditions... Airbases.... Foreign Council decisions... etc) so I understand your feelings.

Even Consider Aid decisions in this take a more reasonable length of time, but it's not possible to do that with Volunteers. I'd love more control, please make some noise with the hoi4 developers!

If you set FOD as a dependency, it will load your focus tree after the FOD tree regardless of load order, and wont affect anything if you don't have FOD installed. I had to do the same thing for San Fran Chapter and For the Little Guys.

Of all the bad mechanics this nation has, why did you leave in the Universal Teleporter? Lost Hills being able to send divisions anywhere and receive refugees from anywhere makes no sense.

@thErgonomic Thank you for the report! I've patched it now - it looks like Compliance was removed from core states under the hood at some point.

The Adopting the Market System focus seems to be broken. All of my states in NCR have compliance 100 and resistance zero and it ain't popping while I am at war with a massive Ceasar's Legion.

Same Lemur, It's baffling to me as well. I might need to make a subforum for people to post their full playset for anyone having the issue.

Feel free to report the issue to FOD! They might know something I don't to fix it, but I have nothing else to try. It's incredibly strange FOD is causing this when all map mods overwrite parts of the BOS. (I've deleted and re-added this comment to clarify)

It's frustrating to see people having an issue with it, I've had no trouble personally with LHE loaded last, and if it is loaded after FOD, FOD should not be able to overwrite it

@Paradox Song the problem is that FOD is required to actually run a full USA map. You can't run most of the East Coast mods that actually add stuff and complete the map without FOD.

Oh well, it woulda been nice to play with a bit more engaging Lost Hills, but unfortunately having that total USA map is a higher priority.

Thank you, you as well! (And I messed up a little below - there's also lhe_easy_ledger_invitte, in case they want a nation to be included even though it doesn't have is_brotherhood_nation. lhe_no_easy_ledger_invite excludes them.)

Ok! That's good to know! This is such a good mod! Also hope you have a amazing day!

As long as they gain the vanilla flag is_brotherhood_nation, or is_brotherhood_nation_proper, they will be an option. If the mapmaker thinks that's weird, they can add the flag lhe_no_easy_ledger_invite to exclude them! If they don't, the mapmaker doesn't think they should be considered a Brotherhood nation, so they won't be.

What about if Mutant Liberation Army does the path to become Brotherhood?

Bah, no worries! You gave me the push to move some extra stuff for submod brotherhoods out of alpha! Because of you, you can invite them to the research group and faction now as well! :D

Oh! My bad! Thanks!

@Meow It is a Brotherhood nation. If you want to add it to the Ledger, there should be a decision to recognize them as a member of the Brotherhood once you have access to planes - completing either the East's Lancers, the Shi mini-tree, or getting vertibird tech will do it like with most other long-range diplomacy options for the BOS.

@Astraeos Unless they remove the BOS focus tree from FOD, there's nothing to do. You can delete it yourself, but it can't be removed by another submod or patch - hoi4 doesn't offer any options to us lowly modders.

So we can't use this mod with FOD? What was the resolution there?

In Rustbelt Update. Iron's Brotherhood isn't treated as a Brotherhood nation