-Removed the border avoidance diplomacy action into a separate mod: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2011643646



AI strategies (will probably need balancing so improving these depends on your feedback):

-AI strategies that should make the AI properly garrison specific important states they control such as Gibraltar, Suez, Malta etc.

-several country specific strategies to help the AI garrison certain critical coastal areas (England, China's coast, Japan)

-strategy to stop the AI from continuing suicidal attacks when low on important equipment for its armies and only resume when it has recovered sufficiently

-strategy to stop the AI from having a border garrison against generally non-threatening countries during war as well as a few other strategies for specific cases

-adjusted some existing strategies to target specific diplomatic actions like alliance instead of general AI behavior to avoid nonsense AI acceptance modifiers on unintended actions

-in situations where the AI is overwhelmed by enemy fighters and doesn't have enough of its own fighters to put up a fight, it should abandon air production and switch to anti-air templates (except the template switching doesn't seem to work - at least the factories will be doing something useful instead of fighting a hopeless air war)

-ENG/ITA commit more troops to north africa

-china commits a lot of troops to guarding the coastal areas (depends on mod settings and whether Japan is AI or not)

GER - SOV war:
-USSR now goes on the defensive (against player) in case of a defensive war instead of wearing itself out by pushing
-added a special construction strategy for GER/SOV that allows them to build a supply line under certain conditions between moscow and berlin along the best available route to the current front and build infrastructure along the front



resources:

-AI tracks the resources it needs and the major shortages it has over time so that it can better decide when to improve infrastructure for resources, take resource extraction decisions (also checks if its allies need resources when considering resource extraction decisions) or use Forced Labor



occupation:

-GER will try to set up collaboration governments in advance in the countries it invades, and uses civilian oversight if it succeeds, also uses Canaris to get them faster and switches in Himmler later when it holds occupied states

-otherwise, the AI highly prefers Forced Labor on states where it has resources it needs, Harsh Quotas on states with a lot of factories

-else it will try to keep resistance target below 25%

-note: I cant change the type of occupation templates the AI uses so I can't make it take advantage of armored cars or anything



agent missions/operations:

-AI generally likes to keep one agent on counterintelligence whenever possible

-additional logic for build intel network mission and decryption target selection to make it focus on more important targets

-a lot of special attention paid having the AI manage collaboration government (just for GER at the moment), boost resistance (for example SOV boosting resistance in GER) and rescue operative operations



agency upgrades:

-rebalanced how the AI majors get agency upgrades: now all majors including SOV/GER should get upgrades from the start of the game. Some probably take less upgrades overall compared to vanilla but they are more focused on upgrades I think are important

-cryptology department and passive defense are very high priority for the AI



config:

-removed planning/entrenchment boost setting (you can do this with custom bonus)

-reworked a lot of outdated script for difficulty settings

-AI military focuses manually set by you wont be changed by the AI later

-added a help page for military focuses

-removed anti-aggression AI setting - it's outdated and could be much better if I get around to reworking it

-added a neutral south america option

-removed reduced resistance effects for the AI

-added a damage to garrisons custom bonus modifier and added it to the difficulty bonus presets

-Sino-Japanese war AI setting (meant for AI vs AI situations, if you try to abuse this in your favor, the AI should generally automatically revert to trying its best):
-Favor Japan: Japan will typically win this war (limits applied to AI China) (default)
-Favor China: China will likely hold off Japan (no AI limits)

-Eastern Front AI setting setting (meant for AI vs AI situations, if you try to abuse this in your favor, the AI should generally automatically revert to trying its best):
-Favor Germany: USSR keeps a major part of its army in reserve somewhere east, only recalling those troops once the situation is dire enough. Also makes USSR a little more dumb at the start with its fronts. This means Germany can make quick progress at the start of the war for a more historical campaign. (default)
-Favor USSR: USSR does its best against Germany.



challenging mode:

-AI navy production: prefers cheap DDs with CLs, no capital ships

-Challenging SOV AI doesn't build CAS/TAC so that it can get more fighters out



normal mode:

-GER uses 27w 9/3 infantry, adjust artillery production so that it shouldnt have issues recruiting a big enough army in time for the war



templates:

-removed field hospitals from 20/26w templates to save support company costs



gameplay:

-removed occupation law nerf

-removed changes to cavalry and military police suppression



misc:

-since Finland can't join Axis for the continuation war anymore due to not having enough fascist support, I added a simple event that allows Germany to secretly ask Finland to join its war after it starts the USSR war focus

-improved priority constructions AI in the mod to allow the ai to manage many priority construction projects at the same time

-improved how GER uses air production focus as it blitzes west europe: after it declares a war on the next country, it uses air production focus for some time which gives it a little extra power as it invades countries and allows it to immediately start the next war focus after taking out the current target

-reworked AI strategy script blocks that tell the AI to do various things in this mod and cause lag and some mod compatibility issues to instead use the new tag aliases