Moereich V0.32.1 patch notes

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*****MOEREICH 0.32.1*****
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Merry Christmas! The apology tour for neglecting this mod for a while continues. Here you go, another huge update with hundreds of updated pieces of graphics as a Christmas present.
If anyone likes TFR, we've started work on a submod for that. Anyone interested in applying to help can do so on our Discord.
It actually feels great to have fun with this again. I think the time away from modding in general and TNO in particular did a lot of good and helped me seeing things in a more positive light. Thanks again to all the people that put up with me being a tad slow while figuring things out, I'll be better about all of that moving forward. Hopefully, two big back-to-back updates proves it!

##ITALY REWORK##

So this kinda just happened? I was sorting out the generics and realized that the old Italy content after KR's last rework was a bit rushed on top of a lot of the old portraits being extremely old. So I decided to do it properly now! Entire region had an overhaul, give it a whirl if you haven't played any of the Italian states in a while!

I'll spruce up some of the more ordinary politicians for the Italian Republic and Socialist Republic of Italy in a bit. I need a refresher on them first I think but didn't have time for it.

*ITALIAN REPUBLIC
This is now the Azur Lane tag. Characters have been consolidated from across various tag. Some leaders were reorganized based on ideology or otherwise updated. generals/admirals have also been slotted in a bit better to fit their traits.

ITA - Alessandro Sardi - New portrait.
ITA - Annibale Bergonzoli - Relocated portrait.
ITA - Alberto da Zara - Couldn't resist the name joke.
ITA - Arturo Michelini - Relocated portrait.
ITA - Carlo Bergamini - New portrait.
ITA - Costanzo Ciano - New portrait.
ITA - Ettore Bastico - New portrait.
ITA - Fedele de Giorgis - New portrait.
ITA - Gabriele Nasci - New portrait.
ITA - Giacomo Matteotti - Duplicate demolished.
ITA - Gian Galeazzo Ciano - New portrait.
ITA - Gino Pavesi - Relocated portrait.
ITA - Italo Gariboldi - Relocated portrait.
ITA - Marcello Soleri - New portrait.
ITA - Raffaele de Courten - New portrait.
ITA - Rodolfo Graziani - Relocated portrait.
ITA - Ugo Cavallero - New portrait.
ITA - Venanzio Gabrotti - Relocated portrait.

* TWO SICILIES
This ended up being more of a "just regular Italian militaria + green" tag. Again, art and uniform styles made mostly consistent across the army and navy. New art for the leader to fit in with the general style of the uniforms in the tag.

SIC - Antonino Toscano - Relocated portrait.
SIC - Ferdinando Borbone - Updated portrait.
SIC - Giulio Ingianni - Relocated portrait.
SIC - Mario Arisio - Relocated portrait.
SIC - Pietro Ago - Relocated portrait.
SIC - Romeo Oliva - New portrait.
SIC - Salvatore Todaro - New portrait, old mmoved to gen pile.
SIC - Ubaldo Soddu - Demolished a duplicate.

* SARDINIA
Minor overhaul. Just made everything look nicer and threw out some ancient stuff.

SRD - Amedeo I - Updated portrait.
SRD - Bruno Malaguti - New portrait.
SRD - Giovanni Messe - Relocated portrait.
SRD - Mario Roatta - New portrait.
SRD - Umberto Carignano - New portrait. There's going to be at least 2 people that recognize that it's the same artist that designed and drew both the new artwork for this one and Amedeo.

* SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF ITALY
This tag's now the GuP tag after fully updating it to fit in with the rework. Matched Socialist and Fash officers better too.

SRI - Achille Starace - New portrait.
SRI - Alceste de Ambris - Relocated portrait, made to fit in better with the new...
SRI - Arnaldo Azzi - New portrait.
SRI - Benito Mussolini - 2 new Ducepilled portraits. Does anyone even remember that he used to have an absolutely amazing top hat and that this was originally the reason why he had the old portrait? Anyway, old portrait has been touched up and is now a Britisih spy working in Canada, a role more apt for the original character.
SRI - Carlo Rosselli - New portrait.
SRI - Dardano Fenulli - New portrait.
SRI - Edmondo Rossoni - New portrait.
SRI - Emilio Lussu - Relocated portrait.
SRI - Ettore Troilo - Updated portrait.
SRI - Ines Donati - New portrait.
SRI - Italo Balbo - New portrait, now more aviation themed.
SRI - Leonilde Iotti - Relocated portrait.
SRI - Luigi Biancheri - New portrait.
SRI - Luigi Rizzo - Relocated portrait/dupe demolished.
SRI - Piera Gatteschi Fondelli - New portrait.
SRI - Pietro Nenni - New portrait.

Overall, I'm happy with these updates, and I hope you will be too! Let me know if anything's off!

#CHINA REWORK NO.58#
So this dropped while I was finishing up this stuff. Oh well, guess you're getting part of a China pack too. Merry Christmas!
I've officially run out of portraits of characters in Chinese garbs and anything else I'll need. Will fix later.

CHI - Peng Xuefeng - New portrait.
CHI - W ang Lingyun - New portrait. These names look weird because Pastebin has the worst word filter in the world, sorry.

FNG - Ruan Zhenduo - New portrait.
FNG - W ang Yitang - New portrait.
FNG - Zhang Zongxiang - New portrait.

QIE - W ang Tan - New portrait.
QIE - Yu Xuezhong - Alt portrait covered.

NOT DONE: GXC, SHZ, YUN.
They added 100+ portrits and with the GXC tag practically being bloatware at this point so I couldn't get them done by Christmas.
Will be fixed later but some critical stuff was repaired like - of course - Long Yun being renamed for the billionth time.

##GENERIC PORTRAIT OVERHAUL##

So the KR devs changed a bunch of stuff up around here while I was gone so it's about time we fixed it! Repaired everything, added new stuff, threw out some old garbage and added prettier things in their place.

##NEW PORTRAITS##

AFRICAN - A handful of old portraits were replaced with newer ones.
ARABIAN - Folder fully repaired. It used to be "Arab", but now it's apparently "Arabian" (wow thanks) and "Middle Eastern". At least the distinction allows fore more accurate details for the sub-region
ASIAN - 2 repaired, 2 new.
BRITAIN - A dozen or so new ones WHY DO THEY NEED SO MANY AAAA
ETHIOPIAN - 3 updated portraits using old generals that were replaced with fresher portraits. Don't know why there's an Ethiopian folder, but the more the merrier!
EUROPEAN - 5 new civilian and 3 new navy portraits, filling in all the blank spots. One old Italian OC portrait was also moved here.
FRENCH - Ten new portraits WHY ARE THERE FIFTEEN GENERIC GENERALS FOR FRANCE?
GERMAN - 9 new portraits. That's a whole lotta generics!
GERMAN AFRICAN - 1 new portrait.
ITALIAN - Every portrait was renamed and they removed the navy ones + the old colored structure is gone. All fixed now + 6 new portraits.
MIDDLE EASTERN - New folder, reinstated some old Arabian ones here, added in a bunch of new ones too.
RUSSIAN - 6 new portraits.
SOUTH AMERICAN - Handful of new ones, simple as.
UNITED STATES - 3 new generic generals.

##NEW PORTRAITS##

Some mini reworks.
Several tags have had some sprucing up as a result of the generic overhaul. A lot of old cruddy things went to the generic pile, and new portraits were added. In the process, a long overdue thematic change was made to a few of the Italian tags, helping them be more consistent after their reworks a while back.

ALG - Messali Hadj - Repaired portrait.
CAN - Charles Foulkes - New portrait.
CAN - George Kitching - New portrait.
CAN - George Stewart Henry - Recycled a portrait they deleted in the latest update.
CAN - Harry Leonard Nowell Salmon - New portrait.
CAN - Hugh Guthrie - New portrait.
CAN - Joseph Farr - New portrait.
CAN - Percy Nelles - New portrait.
CAN - Thomas Crerar - Recycled another deleted portrait from the recent KR mini rework.
CAN - Wilfred Dunderdale - Classic portrait in a new form.
COG - Pedro VII Afonso - Used to be Pedro VIII. Thanks I hate it.
DAH - Louis Hunkanrin - Delete one re-add one.
EGY - Hamza Pasha II - Relocated portrait.
EGY - Mahmoud Hamza - New portrait.
EGY - Shuhdi Atiya Shafi - New portrait.
EGY - Suleiman Ezzat - New portrait.
ETH - Desta Damtew - New portrait. You're getting an Ethiopian mini-rework! I should spruce up more African tags, they're so old.
ETH - Hailu Tekle Haymanot - New portrait.
ETH - Kassa Haile Darge - New portrait.
ETH - Mulugeta Yeggazu - Neat new portrait, old one moved to generic pile.
ETH - Nasibu Zeamanuel - New portrait.
GAB - Jean Baptiste Ndende Dibantsa - New portrait.
GBR - Ernest Makins - New portrait. These apparently appear in Canada btw.
GBR - John Buchan - New portrait.
GEO - Aleksandre Tsereteli - They replaced the old political leader in this pie chart slot so I moved the old one here.
SRI - Achille Starace - Relocated portrait.
JAP - Hasegawa Kiyoshi - I accidentally gave him the wrong background when I did scientists en masse the other week. Fixed it now. Sorry!
JAP - Miyazaki Ryusuke - New portrait. SocDem AND NatPop slots, you say?
JBS - Saud bin Abd al Aziz - New portrait.
MAL - Leong Yew Koh - They deleted a portrait and added a new guy, so I just moved the old one here. Many such cases.
NEP - Giri Pprasad Burathoki - New portrait, Nepal rework before Hungary focus tree.
NEP - Kiran Shumsher Rana - New portrait.
NEP - Mahabir Shumsher Rana - New portrait.
NEP - Ram Prasad Rai - New portrait.
NEP - Samrajya Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana - New portrait.
NFA - Alphonse Georges - New portrait.
NFA - Jean de Lattre de Tassigny - New portrait.
RAJ - Francis Tuker - New portrait.
RAJ - Mohammad Siddiq Choudri - New portrait.
SAU - Saad bin Abdulaziz al Saud - Updated portrait.
SIE - Wallace Johnson - New portrait. Thanks to Tempes on the server for reporting a bunch of these btw.

##SCIENTISTS##
Corrections + a folder that I missed.

ACC - Andrew Irwin McKee - New portrait.
ACC - Edward Curtis Wells - New portrait.
ACC - Edwin Mattison McMillan - New portrait.
ACC - Ernest Orlando Lawrence - New portrait.
ACC - Paul Pigott - New portrait.
QIE - Wu Dayou - Replaced the old generic-ish portrait with an actual Chinese scientist character.

##MISC##

China opening screen is back + one new loading screen was added.
Voice lines, the China reworks and other essentials dropping later.
I'm gonna go back to doing Christmas things now, hope this holds you guys over for a while.