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Historical Flavor Expansion

This mod is being merged into VFM (Victorian Flavor Mod), and all future development will be happening as part of that project. You can find it here:

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2880089689


The Historical Flavor Expansion, or HFE is a mod that takes inspiration from the HPM, HFM and GFM mods for Victoria 2.
Our aim is to bring historical accuracy and additional flavor to a broad range of nations and make the world of victoria more fun to play in.

Credits:

Thanks to calvinsoul for allowing us to use Norton's Flavor Mod as part of this mod, and the VFM team for making Nortons mod possible. https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2882805006

Thanks to Timur for allowing us to use parts of his Southern Africa Rework, helping us flesh out the borders of many african nations. https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2892080578

Thanks to vlax for helping us with the Russian Localization

New Religions

• Reformed (Calvinist), cultures affected: Dutch, Boer, Swiss, Yankee, Dixie, Scottish
  
• Anglican, cultures affected: English, Australian, Anglo-Canadian, Anglo-Indian (New).
  
• Ibadi, affects Oman.
• Taiping Christianity, affects Heavenly Kingdom event chain and tag.
  
• Mormon (Early development)

Centralization laws
Countries can now enact centralization laws, and most have historical starting laws related to centralization. (Thanks to calvinsoul of Norton's Flavor Mod for this)

• Ainu starts as a tributary of Japan to prevent foreign colonization
  
• Ryukyu starts as a tributary of Japan
• Ending Sakoku triggers the Iwakura Mission event
  
• Journal Entry: Line of Advantage (Conquer Korea)
  
• Journal Entry: Hokkaido Development Comission (Colonize Hokkaido)

• Boer republics do not exist at game start, and spawn in randomly over time, weighted according to historical foundation date.
  
• All Boer republics are playable through event for Cape Colony, and Transvaal is playable through an event for Zoutpansberg (New Tag).
  
• Formable Tag: Union of South Africa
• Journal Entry: Responsible Government (Become a Dominon)
  
• Decisions to unite with other british african puppets for Cape Colony and Britain
  
• New Tags: Klein Vrystaat, Stellaland, Xhosa, Swazi, Zoutpansberg, Rozwi, Maravi, Boina, Antankarana
  
• New Culture: Voortrekker, Griqua

• Mormon minority exists is various historical states
  
• Journal Entry: The State of Deseret

• Baltic nations appear as governorates at game start.
  
• Circassia and Caucasian Imamate begins with the Caucasian war against russia.
  
• Caucasia now split between Caucasian Viceroyalty and minor russian protectorates
  
• Journal Entry: January Uprising (Historical Polish revolt)
  
• Journal Entry: Kisleyov's Reforms (End Serfdom)
  
• Journal Entry: The Great Game (Approach india, form Russian Turkestan)
  
• Minor Journal entries for absorbing puppets.
  
• New Tags: Caucasia, Estonia, Livonia, Latvia, Russian Turkestan, Mingrelia, Svaneti, Abkhazia

• Starts with Isolationism. Hermit Kingdom government (Flavor only).

• Ethiopia now allows for unification plays.
  
• Age of Princes now requires 3/4 ethiopian states.
  
• Ethiopia is called "Abyssinia" while unrecognized.

• Starts with a Carlist revolt.

• Starts with Reformist revolt.

• Peru is split into North Peru and South Peru upon puppeting.
  
• Creating the union triggers the War of the Confederation, where North peru will revolt and likely bring in Chile and/or Argentina.

• Historical Flag
  
• New Tags: Entre Ríos, Corrientes

• India formation now allows for unification play, but only for recognized nations that are not the British East India Company.
  
• New Culture: Anglo-Indian (Mainly used to involve BIC in the unification play)

• Added countless kurdish tags as protectorates at start
  
• Journal Entry: Tanzimat: Kurdish Autonomy (Reform the tribes into a unified administrative unit)

• Begins as Qajar Empire
• Autonomous regions represtented

• Historical leaders and generals
  
• New ideologies for interest groups
  
• Unique religion

• Persia Flavor, subject interactions, Baha'i, Great Game
  
• More ottoman journal entries and events, follow up on kurdish Journal Entry.
  
• Argentina flavor, country name, platine war, federationists vs unitarians
  
• Mormon events for the US, fruit obsession leading into banana republics
  
• Ezo revolt for Japan
  
• More Ehtiopia flavor
  
• Cleanup of existing features and more journals for other countries per user suggestions

• The mod only supports English localization at the moment

Victoria 3 Modding Discord:

https://discord.gg/kYKhGzc72w