Generals and Admirals

Generals and Admirals is an update and replacement for the old Generals and Traits mod. Army and Navy leaders and traits have been overhauled to improve gameplay, historical accuracy, and advancement. Existing leaders have been updated, and new characters included thanks to great portraits from the Steam community, listed below.

Field Marshals and generals are now set more correctly at the 1936 start. The starting level corresponds with their rank, and most starting traits are limited to personality traits. Thus, old guard generals and field marshals will be level 3 and 4, but limited in their ability to acquire new traits or level up quickly. Future star generals like Guderian, Monty, or Patton will start at 1 to 3, and will more rapidly accumulate earned traits due to their lower levels. Many of the best field marshal traits require earned traits, and so it helps to have your future sky marshals advance at the army level before putting them in command of army groups.

The second part of the mod is the traits themselves. Infantry, mobile, and armor leader traits require only a 25% participation, allowing a broader scope of these abilities. All traits in general have lower thresholds, which combined with the average lower starting levels means that the generals can earn a greater base of abilities through combat. This is meant to offset the problem of level 5 generals who can't earn Panzer Leader or Mountaineer even after five years of hard fighting. The traits have been tweaked since the first Generals and Traits mod, and are now more balanced.

The mod also adds admirals into the mix with a similar system. Since they start with mostly personality traits, make sure to match up the right man for the job if you want to specialize in submarines, carriers, battleships, or convoy defense.

Since the character files were edited, there are also some light changes to military advisors. No changes are made to focus trees, so this mod can be more compatible, but some of the advisor abilities have been altered, while some generals have been added as advisors at the start.

Nations currently included:

Australia Austria Canada China and Warlords Czechoslovakia Britain France Germany Hungary Italy Japan and Manchukuo Netherlands Poland PRC Romania South Africa Soviet Union Spain Sweden Turkey U.S.A. Yugoslavia

There may be more in the future but I don't have all the DLCs.

Huge thanks to the following creators, whose artwork is featured. Please check out their work.

South Africa Reworked - Sarge More Admirals for Japan - DAT Noob Kaiserreich - Kaiserreich dev team Black Ice - Black Ice Dev Team RT56 - Dev Team Total War Mod - Total War team Expanded Hungary - Vitéz Add USA Generals AI REWORK - IAMTHETABLE Add German Generals AI REWORK - IAMTHETABLE Add Soviet Generals AI REWORK - IAMTHETABLE Additional Portraits - Karlefeldt Chinese faction character supplement pack - XY French Generals Overhaul: Redux - ZenFlakes56 and Alrendaxe

Compatibility: This mod is not compatible with overhaul mods such as Expert AI or Road to 56 due to conflicting character files. This mod will conflict with any mod that also changes character files or the traits file.

If you are using my (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3418233355) mod also, that mod needs to have precedence over this mod in order to work. The load order in the HOI4 launcher doesn't always work, so if there is still a conflict, you can rename or delete the common\characters\USA.txt file in this mod to let the TRM file work.