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The Road to 56 [Beta]

May 23025 Update!

Warning: This update brings savegame-breaking mapchanges

Tip: You can switch between the Beta and Main release during the beta week to ensure you won't lose your saves. Map changes on the beta but you have a savegame going? Finish your save on the release version then go to the beta. And vice versa.

**Highlights**
* The Emporium has cancelled their plan for world domination and retracted their services. Use the Game Rules to go back in time!

**Additions**
* Added a few historical characters to Sinkiang and other cliques.
* Added a character trait to the commander version of Yan Xishan.
* Added a new state in Xibei San Ma.
* Added Easter Island and the Channel Islands to the map.
* Removed Canadian, Australian and New Zealander TfV trees.
* Added the Italian and German invasions of Monaco. Also added the death of Louis II.
* Beersheba is now controlled by the Arab forces upon the collapse of the mandate.
* Jordan can now rename itself from the Emirate of Transjordan to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan if it controls the west bank (Doing so will also core any controlled states west of the Jordan river).
* Added a new ruler for communist Germany.
* Tooltip changes for communist and democratic Germany to make the focus effects more easy to understand.
* [AI] - The AI has been updated, see the full list bellow
* The AI has been told how to design proper tanks. This is an ongoing process though and it is currently primarily the Major Nations that do these new designs.
* The AI has been told how to design proper planes, this ranges from Fighters and CAS to Medium Bombers.
* The AI will now field better Tank Divisions, making those who field tanks a larger threat, Anti-Tank research is recommended.
* The AI will now devote some research slots at appropriate timings to for Tank, Air and Artillery Research
* The Italian AI will no longer send hundreds of thousands to die in Eastern Africa after beating up the Ethiopians
* Added a new Formable Nation for Ukraine and Ruthenia, the Republic of Greater Ukraine


**Fixes**
* Fixed releasing Ukraine forcing you to play as Ukraine.
* Fixed Argentina starting with the wrong leader.
* Fixed multiple small issues in the R56 Lithuania tree.
* Nerfed the Turkish Red Army idea from the R56 Turkey tree to 2% conscription from 10%.
* Fixed the capitulation pictures which had been wrongly implemented last time.
* Fixed a democratic Venezuelan advisor having a missing requirement for recruitment.
* The 1936 Arab Revolt will now trigger at the historical date (19th of April 1936)
* Iraq will no longer get the Israeli ceasefire event if they didn't join the war in the first place.
* Ending Finnish civil wars will return your capital to Helsinki.
* Fixed typos in an event describing an assassination of Hitler.
* Found and buried the evil clone of Jakob Labart (unless it was the other one? What could possibly go wrong?)
* [MtG] Fixed a Mexican event granting tank licenses but not taking into account the NSB system
* [NSB] Added a missing Ethiopian scripted trigger regarding military academies.
* [NSB] Fixed an oversight in the r56 Ethiopian focus tree caused by a condition originally in the BBA Ethiopian tree.
* Added National Spirit that prevents Vichy France from instantly rejoining the Axis upon the completion of the German Focus Case Anton.
* Issue with the Soviet Non-Communist Civil War has been fixed, countries should now rebel when appropriate once more.
* Removed Volkswagen and Deutsche Arbeitsfront ideas and merged into Volksgemeinschaft to reduce Idea Icon Bloat on Germany

* Removed lines regarding the now integrated DLCs (it will probably takes some time to remove all of them)

**Balancing**
* [BBA] - IC cost has been increased across the board
* [BBA] - Medium Airframe 1 and 2 have had their Speed increased
* [BBA] - Medium Airframe 1, 2 and 3 have had their Air Defense increased
* [NSB] - Light Tank 1936 has been moved to 1937
* Improved and Advanced Equipment conversion Technologies have been removed and had their bonuses transferred over into Machine Tool tech line at a reduced bonus.


**GFX**
* Added new unique capitulation pictures
* Iran will have the Romanian R1 (actually a Czech tankette)
* Peruvian tank textures (based on Czech tanks)

**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.