# Welcome to Kaiserreich! This version of Kaiserreich is operating at the ALPHA stage. Thank you to the Darkest Hour team for giving me the inspiration to make this in Victoria II. We take no credit for the idea and recommend you check out the Kaiserreich mod for Darkest Hour - it's great fun alt-history, something we aspire this to be while trying to retain the freedom of play we all (Probably) love in Victoria II.

# V 0.1 - Pre-Alpha (Development 27/12/13 - 03/01/2014)

GENERAL:

- Map estimated at 85%+ done
- Basic new factory code implemented, but no new factories in the game yet ;(
- 'Total Annexation' casus belli added for war whores. Annex a country of any size but go over the infamy limit (30 badboy) for balance!
- Increased world oil production as Kaiserreich is more dependent on oil than vanilla (Alaska and Libya)
- Great Powers lose infamy alot faster to allow for a more action packed game
- Secondary Powers lose infamy slightly faster to allow for a more action packed game
- Some loading screens implemented, main menu 'placeholder' implemented.
- New soundtrack added. More songs in the next release!

MILITARY FEATURES:

- Jet Planes, Rocket Artillery and Mechanised Infantry added                                         (However, will be unbalanced - and the method of implementation is temporary and crude-ish)
- Rebalanced some armies                                                                             (Due to the way I set armies up many uncivs will spawn with jet fighters QQ , this will be fixed in short order though)
- Submarines added, but in a poor format

EVENTS:

- Introductions for most major powers
- Added 'Irish Home Rule' for the United Kingdom
- Added 'Collapse of the British Empire Event' for the United Kingdom                                (Not totally finished, I have to create more countries first. However, it WILL fire if the conditions are met currently).
- Added 'General Strike of 1926' event for the United Kingdom
- Added 'Roaring Twenties' event for USA
- Added 'Empire State Building Completed' for USA
- Added Italian Civil War and communist/fascist agitation
- Added Russian Civil war victory events
- Added Italian Civil war victory events
- Added 'Roaring Twenties' event for USA
- Added 'Roaring Twenties' event for Japan
- Added 'Wall Street Crash' event                                                                     (Only affects USA currently. Will affect entire world in later release)
- Added 'Adolf the Artist' event for Germany

DECISIONS:

- 'Anschluss' with Austria decision added for Germany
- Added 'War Plan Red' decision for the USA
- Added 'Boom Time Policies' decision for the USA                                                    (Will be modified for next release)
- Implemented 'Execute Ringleaders' decision                                                         (Broken - will be fixed in next version)
- Added 'Invade Manchuria?' decision for Japan

COUNTRY ADDITIONS:

- Russian Whites (WHI)
- Mussolini's Blackshirts (FIT)
- The Raj (BRJ)
- Mittel Afrika (MIT)

TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTIONS:

- Very basic technology tree implemented, only covers army - does not yet have proper naming or descriptions
- No inventions implemented

BUG FIXES:

- Fixed simple spawning issue where German units spanwed inside the Soviet Union and France

GAME RUINING ISSUES, NEED HELP TO FIX:

- UK is for some unknown reason 100% blockaded on game start and is stuck this way

FINAL NOTES:

- Please bear in mind alot of the above is probably broken at this stage. Post on the thread with suggestions, bug reports or ideas and remember this is pre-alpha. We have a LONG way to go with this.



# V 0.2 - Alpha (03/01/2014 - 19/01/2014)

GENERAL:

- Soundtrack should now work playing as a country
- More music added (Montgomery's March (Hoi2), The Yellow Rose of Texas, The USMC Hymn, It's a Long way to Tipperary (Das Boot V.), UK A&A Theme, USA A&A Theme)
- Unique music implemented, though I don't know if it's only partially working due to my computer being buggy - please check my code and help if it isn't working! (music/songs.txt)
- More loading screens implemented
- Added 'Install Fascist Puppet' CB type. 'Install Communism' CB and 'Fascist Puppet' CB now both add puppets to any countries they are enacted against (Form your own warsaw pact!)

FACTORIES/GOODS:

- Added 'Electricity' good (Everyday need and required by some factories)
- Added 'Computer' good (Luxury need)
- Added 'Financial Stock' good (Upper/Middle Class Luxury need)
- Added 'Television' good (Luxury need)
- Added Coal Fired Power Station
- Added International Stock Exchange
- Added Computer Factory
- Added Television Factory
- Added Coal Fired Power Station to ENG, GER, USA and JAP to help world supply for electricity
- Rebalanced some aspects of the economy

# I don't know how to add GFX for factories yet, so they are a bit bland and buggy. Sorry!

MILITARY FEATURES:

- Added Attack Helicopters to replace Cuirissars
- Submarine removed, replaced with 'Transport Flottila'
- Submarine will be reincluded later

EVENTS:

- Added 'Form Italy' decision for Mussolini's Blackshirts
- Added 'Restore Order in Rome' decision for Italy
- Added 'Ghandi' event for The Raj
- Added 'Become India' event for The Raj
- Added 'Release Pakistan' event for India
- Removed all invalid/non applicable vanilla events                                            (Or so I thought, some events have reappeared mysteriously... will be fixed later QQ)
- Made United Kingdom alot more likely to fall to communism in 'General Strike 1926'
- Added 'Great Depression' event that affects all countries                                    (Still needs proper testing - might not work)
- Added 'Death of Field Marshal Haig' for the United Kingdom
- Added 'The Empire of Mugabe', 'Southern Rhodesia', 'The East African Union' and 'The West African Union' to the 'The Lion is dead event for the United Kingdom
- Added 'The Falklands War - Britain' event for the United Kingdom
- Added 'The Death of the Kaiser' event for The German Empire
- Added 'Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin' event for The Soviet Union
- Added 'Hirohito is Crowned' event for Japan
- Added 'The Assassination of Olof Palme' event for Sweden
- Added 'The Norwegian Merchant Fleet' event for Norway

DECISIONS:

- Added 'Establish the Indian National Congress' decision for India
- Added 'The Great Patriotic War' decision for Russia
- Added 'Form the Commonwealth Union' decision for the United Kingdom
- Added 'The Danube is Part of us' formation decision for Serbia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria
- Removed all invalid/non applicable vanilla decisions
- Added 'The Falklands War' decision for Argentina
- Added 'Restore the Roman Empire' decision to Italy
- Added 'Form Iberia!' deiciosn for Spain and Portugal
- Added 'The Iberian Manifesto!' decision for Iberia
- Added 'Nationalise the Suez Canal!' decision for Egypt

COUNTRY ADDITIONS/CHANGES:

- Poland is now owned by Germany
- Germany owns Bohemia-Moravia
- Gave Yugoslavia to Hungary
- 'Chinese Empire' is now 'The Republic of China'
- Added 'The Commonwealth Union' (UOC)                 (Formable Nation)
- Added 'The East African Union' (EAU)                 (Releasable Nation)
- Added 'The West African Union' (WAU)                 (Releasable Nation)
- Added 'The Empire of Mugabe'(EOM)                    (Releasable Nation)
- Added 'Pakistan' (PAK)                               (Releasable Nation)
- Added 'The Confederacy of the Danube' (ROD)          (Formable Nation)
- Added 'Iberia' (IBE)                                 (Formable Nation)
- Added 'The Roman Empire' (REI)                       (Formable Nation)
- Added 'The Terran Empire' (TTE)                      (In the future it will be formable, just implemented for now)

TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTIONS:

- Alot of research done into era-authentic tech and more
- Basic tech and inventions implemented
- Names will be fixed in the next version, and pictures will be added in a later release aswell!

BUG FIXES:

- Fixed Italian civil war event wargoals
- Stopped Japanese events firing monthly
- 'The Lion is Dead' event now removes puppet status from all dominions and new colonial nations and breaks the alliance, still have to sort out spheres (You might be able to form the UOC straight away atm :P)
- Fixed 'Collapse of the Empire' event for the United Kingdom, still needs additional fixes but this event is quite big. It will take me time, sorry!
- Corrected some spelling mistakes
- 'Execute Rebels!' decision now works correctly
- Fixed some event code for militancy etc, still alot needs fixing though. Please report any events that to not subtract/give militancy/conciousness.

FINAL NOTES:

# Any knowledge regarding adding new GFX to the new factories would be much appreciated.
# In a future update the formable nations will give you free cores on alot of territory, much like when you form Arabia in vanilla Vic II.
# Again, any help regarding changing unit sprites would be much appreciated so we can finally make significant changes to units without making the game crash.
# Population statistics will probably be updated to historical levels in a later patch, however this is not a priority.
# Changing the style of the map is also in discussion but again currently is very low priority.
# Help required in editing the fascist puppet cb. It adds a puppet, but I do not know how to make it install a fascist government. Help would be appreciated!

# V 0.3 - Alpha (19/01/2014 --- 26/01/2014)

GENERAL:

- Japan starts allied to the United Kingdom now
- Begun the process of removing uneccesary files from the Kaiserreich directory to optimise the mod
- Three new sound tracks implemented - the11thhour (Formerly hymnsforthoselostatsea), hoi2-theraf, alliesdoinggood as general peace-time background music
- Added 'War.mp3' sountrack from Hearts of Iron II to start forming a new album of 'battle' tracks for Kaiserreich
- Added 'La Victorie est a Nous' unique track and 'La Marseille' for The French Empire and France
- Added 'The Sacred War' unique track, 'The Russian Revolution' track and 'Red Alert 3: Sovet OST' for The Soviet Union
- Revolt risk for all rebels reduced significantly
- Added 'Theocracy' as a type of government (Elections every ten years)
- End date is now extended to 2000.1.1 (Remember you can increase this manually in defines.lua!)

FACTORIES/GOODS:

- Added Fuel Refinerys to The United Kingdom, The USA and The Soviet Union to supplement world demand for fuel at game start

# I don't know how to add GFX for factories yet, so they are a bit bland and buggy. Sorry!

MILITARY FEATURES:

- Added 'Destroyer' to replace Frigate
- Added 'Submarine' to replace Commerce Raiders (Borrowed sprite from PDM as Iam still figuring out how sprites work - this is NOT a permament sprite, but it hasn't been textured yet)
- All commerce raiders replaced with cruisers globally
- Completely redesigned some nations initial military forces
- Rebalanced some units

# Units are still unbalanced I think, make sure you stay up to scratch with military tech - the difference is huge!

EVENTS:

- Added 'Kraftfahrstraße Constructed' event for Germany
- Added 'The 1921 Imperial Conference - Renewal?' event for The United Kingdom
- Added 'The Republic of China Today' event for The Republic of China
- Added 'The Blockade Takes Effect!' event and modifier for any country that is above 80% blockaded
- Added 'The Blockade is Over!' event for any country that reduces its blockade to below 30% or makes peace (Upon receving 'The Blockade Takes Effect!' event)
- Added 'The Grand Battle Fleet!' event for any country that builds over 350 ships and grants 50 prestige
- Added 'Rumors of Lost Glory?' event for France
- Added 'The March on Paris' event for France
- Added 'Total Disarray' event for France
- Added 'Margaret Thatcher' event for The United Kingdom and The Union of the Commonwealth
- Added 'Bonaparte Takes Command' event for The French Empire
- Added 'Fascist Victory' event for France upon winning The French Civil War
- Added 'Bonapartist Victory' event for The French Empire upon winning The French Civil War
- Added 'The Wall Street Blues' event for all countries when the Great Depression strikes the American economy (This was broken in Version 0.2, so I started from scratch to create a working event)
- Added 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt' event for the United States of America
- Added 'The Arab Nations Unite' event for Nejd
- Added 'Arabia is Crushed' event for The Ottoman Empire
- Added 'The Turkish Pigs are Repulsed' event for Arabia
- Added 'Intervention?' event for Persia
- Added 'The Great Depression is Over' event for the USA
- Added 'The Great Depression is Over' event for all civilized nations
- Added 'Allow New Bonds' event for any country that had issued bonds during a war, causing it to reset and allow new bonds to be issued when the country returns to peace
- Added 'The 1979 Iranian Revolution' event for Persia
- Added 'The Åland Islands Crisis' for Finland
- Added 'The Åland Islands - Finland Refuses!' event for Sweden
- Added 'The Åland Islands - Finland Accepts!' event for Sweden
- Added 'Mao Zedong' event for The Republic of China, making 45% of the country support communism (This will eventually cause a civil war event, in a later release)
- Added 'Oil in The North Sea!' event for any country that owns Aberdeen or Bregen, and upon discovering renewable energy causes the trade goods of those provinces to become oil
- Updated 'France Today' event for France, to give the player a more rich background to the current geo-political  situation
- Updated 'Sun Finally Sets' event for The United Kingdom to include more countries and other minor things, but development of this massive event continues - so it is not completely functional yet, but is about 80% functional

DECISIONS:

- Added 'The 1921 Imperial Conference' decision for The United Kingdom
- Added 'Launch Propaganda Campaign!' decision for any Great Power at war with £400k and WE above 20%, for a reduction of 10% WE
- Added 'Issue War Bonds!' decision for any Great Power at war with less than 1M pounds to give £1M, for a cost of 10% WE
- Added 'The Five Year Plan' decision for The Soviet Union. Spend £700k and receive 3 militancy to gain a modifier for 10 years providing benefits
- Added 'The New Deal' decision for The United States upon having FDR as president, and having £2.5 M you can spend to receive a reduction in militancy and a new deal modifier
- Added 'The First Gulf War' decision to Turkey
- Added 'Demand the Åland Islands!' decision for Sweden
- Added 'Design: Yamato-Class Battleships' decision for Japan
- Added 'Design: Supermarine Spitfire' decision for The United Kingdom
- The 'Form Commonwealth Union' decision now requires The United Kingdom to either be a democracy or constitutional monarchy (HMS Government)

COUNTRY ADDITIONS/CHANGES:

- Added 'The French Empire' (FRE)
- Kashmir and Sikkim is now annexed by The Raj
- Nepal and Bhutan are now puppeted by The United Kingdom
- The British Empire is no longer in The United Kingdom's sphere for gameplay reasons should the 'Sun Finally Sets' event fire
- The Heavenly Kingdom is now annexed by The Republic of China
- The Netherlands, Bulgaria and Belgium now start in Germany's sphere of influence (Not Austria or Mittel Afrika to avoid instant cultural annexation)
- Removed Romania from USSR sphere, and The Papal States from France's sphere, as these countries do not exist on game start
- Russian capital is now Moscow
- Removed Dutch cores from Belgium
- Changed starting reforms and governments for several countries
- Added 'The Islamic Revolutionary Party' as a Persian political party, and updated the Persian flag
- Updated Burma's flags, and made it partially westernised
- Updated Johore so it is now called 'Malaysia' and has the Malaysian flag
- Upaded Japan's monarchy flag to be the rising sun flag

TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTIONS:

- Army tech tree completely finished, however, it still requires inventions
- Small amounts of work conducted around the tech tree, to make it more 'believable', and to fix some names and add pictures elsewhere

BUG FIXES:

- The 'Restore Order in Rome' decision will no longer make Italy GP #1 and now transfers the capital to Rome
- Massive overhaul of most decisions to eliminate any chance of the AI spamming them, or being able to enact them multiple times when you shouldnt.
- The UK now changes to the correct political reforms, meaning it will not become a democracy after falling to communist in the 'General Strike 1926' event
- 'Coal Fired Power Station' no longer builds instantly, it now takes 700 days
- Television Factory, Computer Factory, Coal Power Plant and International Stock Exchange can no longer be built on game start without the correct tech

FINAL NOTES:

- HELP REQUIRED : Major problem with the UK economy, I will be eternally grateful to anyone who can point out why the UK's economy is allegedly 100% blockaded but no one else's is. If the UK becomes the Union of the Commonwealth, the blockade is removed. So I think it is something to do with the country file? Again, any help is much appreciated - the UK is virtually unplayable for a player (But the game works for the AI for some reason).
- HELP REQUIED: Any knowledge regarding adding new sprites to the game would be much appreciated.
- KNOWN ISSUE: Sweden and Finland will instantly make peace if Sweden choses to delcare war on Finland in the Aland crisis event
- KNOWN ISSUE: The United Kingdom's initial economy is broken

# V 0.4 - Beta (26/01/2014 --- ???)