Hoi4 Historical MP Rules

Banned Exploits and Glitches (Applies to All Game Types):
1 – 1-Division Training
2 – Tension Boosting
3 – Deleting, or changing the template of, encircled divisions
4 – Civil War Template Name Exploit
5 – The Total Mobilization Exploit
6 – Releasing nations
7 – Deleting Factories
Any other glitches or exploits meant to create an unfair advantage.


Historical Game Rules
GENERAL:
1 – No Exploits or Glitches
2 – No Wars until 1939*, exception against A.I. if through Focus
3 – All historic treaties, pacts, and agreements, must be respected and accepted**
4 – Nations must follow their historical ideologies
5 – Only historic factions are allowed***
6 – No border gore. Contiguous and/or logical territorial annexation only
7 – No volunteers except for Spain****
8 – Nationalist Spain cannot join the Axis until “Recovering from Civil War” has passed or until Germany does the “Align Spain” focus
9 – Republican Spain cannot join the Comintern until 1943
10 – Either side may only send a maximum of 2 tank divisions to the Spanish Civil War
11 – As a puppet or minor ally, do not sabotage your team or be a poor sport. Must cooperate

*Exception for Japan vs. China. Also, if a player-controlled nation starts the game guaranteeing a nation, other players cannot attack that nation until the guaranteeing player at any point revokes the guarantee or until it is 1939.
**For example: Treaty of London, Molotov-Ribbentrop, Vienna Awards, all German demands with the exception of Danzig, etc.
***These are: The Allies, Axis, Comintern, Chinese United Front, Co-Prosperity Sphere
****Exception for Air Volunteers to China, Spain can send volunteers itself, volunteers can be sent to Ethiopia if Italy has not annexed them by June 1936


NATION SPECIFIC:
- AXIS -
1 – Germany must go to war with Poland by 1940
2 – Japan must attack China by 1938
3 – Japan must attack the US and/or Allies no later than March 1942
4 – Germany cannot attack the USSR earlier than May 1941, but must attack them by the end of 1941
5 – Germany must do Molotov-Ribbentrop by June 1939
6 – Romania cannot join the war until Germany goes to war with the Soviets
7 – Romania must allow Poland military access until 1941
8 – Soviet-Japanese non-aggression pact must be followed until the fall of China or 1945
9 – Only Germany/Italy may support the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War

- ALLIES/COMINTERN/CHINA -
1 – The US must stay neutral until 1942 or until it is attacked by Japan
2 – Commonwealth nations must stay loyal to the UK
3 – UK must not decolonize
4 – UK must let Poland into the Allies once Germany goes to war with them
5 – China must form the United Front
6 – Only Mexico/USSR may support the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War
7 – Soviets must take “The Great Purge” by July 1938
8 – Soviets must justify on Finland by September 1939
9 – Soviets must respect non-aggression pact with Japan until the fall of China, capitulation of Germany, or 1945
10 – Soviets must agree to Molotov-Ribbentrop and German Tank Treaty