The Road to 56 [Beta]

September 2026 Update!

Highlights

• Reworked the political branch of the RoC's focus tree, along with several other minor adjustments to the nation.

Additions

• Added two missing Japanese commanders
• Added a Ainu themed focus to the Siberian Unification mini tree
• Added unique traits to MIOs in Poland and removed duplicated MIOs
• Added a focus for Liberia
• Slight defensive improvements for Luxembourg
• A new formable: Melanesia
• [AAT] Added unique MIOs and traits in multiple places
• [NCNS] Adding the missing Maphilindo formable, state-adjusted to the newer patches
• [TAOG] Adding a Naval HQ to Surabaya in both sides of the military branches

Adjustments

• Chinese decisions to purchase weapons have been made slightly more expensive.
• The German focus "Weaken the President's Power" can now be taken as a constitutional monarchy.
• The German focus to restore Brest Litovsk can no longer be taken by leftist governments.
• Prevented an involuntarily subjugated Germany from starting wars.
• Prevented Germany from inviting nations to its faction that are in a civil war.
• Overall increased the time it takes for the CVU to collapse.
• Made Finland much more willing to do the Moscow Armistice at high capitulation progress so they don't get capitulated on historical.
• Improved some Yugoslav military focuses
• Added fortification tech boosts to many fortification focuses (wild, I know)
• Generic advisors for Green Ukraine
• Replaced the icon of the Manchu administration
• Updating the "unlikely to be released by AI" tag list
• States, buildings, and railways adjustment across the Nusantaran Archipelago
• [BBA] non communist Mongolia and "spirit of Genghis" leaders will have access to Genghis Khan medal (in addition to Mengukuo)
• [BBA] replacing r56 CZE medals with new CZE ones
• [AAT] the White Death will only strike if you neighbor Finland, in one way or another
• [TAOG] Gerardus Berenschot is now moved to the Netherlands if the DLC's content is activated

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where "the fight against antisemitism" national spirit would disappear one day after being added.
• Fixed a bug where Goerdeler would not lose "Desperate Gambit" after the civil war.
• Fixed a bug where "Institute Price Controls" could be taken after MEFO was cancelled, making the focus only hurt you.
• Fixed a bug where "Beckist Opposition" was not removable.
• Fixed a bug where the CVU would collapse too fast for you to complete Hugenberg's CVU related focuses.
• Fixed a bug where historical AI Japan is capitulating 1-2 years too early
• Fixed a bug where Dr. Sutomo's death event for Dutch East Indies did not actually retire him
• Fixed France continuing diplomatic focuses while a puppet.
• Fixed two offsets in the warlord tree
• Fixed r56 Austro-Hungarian minitree not being available in Austria
• Fixed gfx of the Tuvan Bank
• Fixed a dynamic picture in Manchuria
• Fixed some generic admirals portraits not showing up
• [AAT & GoE] Fixed condition problems with naval Iraqi MIOs
• [AAT] Removed many duplicated generic MIOs
• [AAT] Light aircraft MIO will work with all light aircraft and not just light fighters.
• [BBA] Fixed gfx of Japanese medals
• [NCNS] Fixed the states considered "Nordic" for faction membership purposes

GFX

• [TaoG] Added different colored generic uniforms for HQ. Countries will start with variants close to their IRL uniforms
• Changed picture for the Soviet capitulation of Lithuania

Credits

• Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project, as well as for opportunities to learn about the related history.