What is WIF ?
WIF is the acronym for World in Flames.
This is a mod that I developed for Hearts of Iron II and its expansions since 2007. Its main goals are to improve historical realism while giving the players a challenging game.
The mod basically reworks every aspect of the game from the combat system to the AI.
Where can I download it ?
You will find download locations and instructions to follow to install the mod here.
Are there surrender event for Soviet Union ?
First you have to take Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Baku and Kuybyshev and the soviets will have an event "Red Army totally disorganized" which will give them 30% additional dissent and -30% max. organization for their troops.
Then when you will reach Severo-Yenisejsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Yakutsk, Irkutsk, the japanese will dow USSR. As the Japanese AI will be already entered in the Pacific War, in Burma and South-East Asia, may be they will not have any troops near the soviet border. If they have some troops there (if not you have to do it yourself) and they occupy Tynda and Vladivostok will trigger the end of soviet union event which will give in a second time a slice of the cake to Japan and create some puppets:TRA, SIB, KAZ,KYG, TAJ, TRK, UZB.
Are there events for end of war in Europe ?
These have been deleted in WIF Platinum Edition because they didn't work as well as I wanted and often led to bugs and inconsistencies. However, new events dealing with surrenders in Europe and post-war setup will soon be reintroduced in further versions of the mod.
How do I upgrade CAGs models ?
CAGs models are upgraded via events. Such events fire when you have researched appropriate interceptor/fighter and tactical bombers technologies.
What are the main differences between Gold and Platinum ?
Gold version was released soon after V1.0 for DD1.3a. It is a patch that was supposed to fix a couple of bugs while making the mod ARM-compatible.
Platinum Edition was released six months later and introduced a major rework of the mod while following its basic principles. Many new gameplay events have been implemented with Platinum Edition such as tech teams losses and recovers or war material seizure.
Here is a complete changelog of Platinum Edition :
WIF is the acronym for World in Flames.
This is a mod that I developed for Hearts of Iron II and its expansions since 2007. Its main goals are to improve historical realism while giving the players a challenging game.
The mod basically reworks every aspect of the game from the combat system to the AI.
Where can I download it ?
You will find download locations and instructions to follow to install the mod here.
Are there surrender event for Soviet Union ?
First you have to take Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Baku and Kuybyshev and the soviets will have an event "Red Army totally disorganized" which will give them 30% additional dissent and -30% max. organization for their troops.
Then when you will reach Severo-Yenisejsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Yakutsk, Irkutsk, the japanese will dow USSR. As the Japanese AI will be already entered in the Pacific War, in Burma and South-East Asia, may be they will not have any troops near the soviet border. If they have some troops there (if not you have to do it yourself) and they occupy Tynda and Vladivostok will trigger the end of soviet union event which will give in a second time a slice of the cake to Japan and create some puppets:TRA, SIB, KAZ,KYG, TAJ, TRK, UZB.
Are there events for end of war in Europe ?
These have been deleted in WIF Platinum Edition because they didn't work as well as I wanted and often led to bugs and inconsistencies. However, new events dealing with surrenders in Europe and post-war setup will soon be reintroduced in further versions of the mod.
How do I upgrade CAGs models ?
CAGs models are upgraded via events. Such events fire when you have researched appropriate interceptor/fighter and tactical bombers technologies.
What are the main differences between Gold and Platinum ?
Gold version was released soon after V1.0 for DD1.3a. It is a patch that was supposed to fix a couple of bugs while making the mod ARM-compatible.
Platinum Edition was released six months later and introduced a major rework of the mod while following its basic principles. Many new gameplay events have been implemented with Platinum Edition such as tech teams losses and recovers or war material seizure.
Here is a complete changelog of Platinum Edition :
AI :
- Trading with Holland as Japan is now harder
- Bulgaria will now garrison the Balkans if Axis
- Japan will now get locked garrisons to protect its homeland
- Chinese AI will now have less free units
- Fixed GER_Air_Strategic
- Ireland should no longer claim North Ireland (really annoying when you are playing as UK in MP...)
- ENG and GER AIs will now build more AA guns
- ENG, GER, USA, SOV and ITA AIs are now supposed to make a proper use of their paratroopers
- Deleted Fall Bifrost possibility
- French AI should now base its Mediterranean fleet at Toulon
- A lot of countries should now build more factories until 1939
- Revised POL and austrian AIs
- Revised Barbarossa AI vs AI balance (Germany will now have a little probability to win)
- Revised US AI production
- New CHC AI
- ENG AI should now be more aggressive in the early years of war
- AI spies should now be more active
Config :
- Added Arma 1.2 translation in Boostertext.csv
- Fixed some models
- Corrected some event texts
- The mod is now properly translated in french, english (by skolehaven), german (by Frank+Frei) and spanish (by Ferrim)
DB :
- You can no longer release Nationalist China nor Communist China
- Fixed some finnish ministers
- Fixed some brigades statistics (AC, ART, ENG, SP ART, Nav Radar)
- Fixed some units statistics (BC, BB, DD, CA, LC, MIL, PAR, TAC, TP, TRA)
- Fixed some English leaders
- Fixed some misc values
- Changed the provinces infrastructures values
- Fixed the airdrop bug
- Changed some tech dates
- Fixed some events
- Modified some GER events (more flexibility, no more dissent when you choose not to invade the Soviet Union for example)
- Modified ITA human GDE events : your GDE can now recover if you seize some key points in Mediterranea
- Infantry speed has been slightly decreased
- Reco planes will now be given at the beginning of the game
- France and China have now recon airplanes too
- New Peace economy/Mobilization events for multiplayer games
- The dissent hit when certain cities fall is now applied in MP
- Added a fake infantry model for the Allied players in MP (Fortitude operation)
- Added new german leaders
- Corrected some cabinets
- Decreased V1 capacities and increased their cost
- Added an event concerning the second Wall Street crash
- Reworked US Gears up for war
- Reworked difficulty levels
- Decreased Submarines organization
- Set MP cost for factories at 0.5
- Reduced number of invention events occuring per year to 2
- Reworked Recon Airplanes stats
- Rep/Nat now gets a peace time penality when the SCW is over
- Vichy now gets a peace time penality
- Pearl Harbor has now 30 infras instead of 10
- Eilat now has a port
- US Admiral Benson has been deleted (dead in 1931)
- US Air General Foulois has been deleted (retired on 31 Dec 1935)
- US Philippine Division is not unlocked
- Increased transport airplanes range
- Reworked/Added some techs teams
- Revised Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
- Revised build/diplo costs
- Reworked MP/Resources/Terrain/Map overall (MP is now counted as K soldiers)
- Revised SOV/CHI surrender events
- Added tech requirements for SAS/Brandenburger events
- Revised Engineers brigades
- Added resources increasement events from COMPENDIUM MOD (by Luxor)
- Resources back from 1.0.0.2 version (there were too many resources in 1.0.0.3)
- Revised Chinese industry transfer events
- Added resources conversion events
- Added naval fuel requirements events
- Added stockpile limitation events
- Reworked oil refining techs
- Added events to sleep tech teams when you loose the province where they were working (you can get them back)
- Added random revolt events in China for the JAP player
- New event concerning the Sudenten forts
- The mobile units/airforces will now consumpt more oil
- Revised naval leaders command limits
- Added fall/capture or key provinces events (gives/deletes dissent and supplies to simulate the equipment lost/capture)
- New events concerning Narvik (As long as Norway is no longer neutral, Germany can't trade with Sweden when the Baltic sea is frozen or under soviet control if Narvik isn't under control. That means Narvik's control is now really important, as IRL.)
- Increased AA brigades airattack
- Decreased max air stack to 6
- Air units are now a little bit more expansive
- Logistical brigades have been deleted
- Dora/Anzio Annie are now units instead of brigades
- Revised FRA/ENG/GER/SOV tech teams
- New events concerning Norway invasion
- Added naval mines units
- New land doctrines tech tree
- Added Manhattan Project events (you will get a better tech team)
- Germany now receives austrian units by event
- New unitnames (by F+F)
- New naval tree
- New naval units, some are nation specifics (Eginhard 38)
- New naval combat system (Eginhard 38 and Sitzkrieg)
- Added national modifiers (for example, the USA has higher RS efficiency, Germany has cheaper CAS etc)
- Reworked soviet events related to Barbarossa
- New Furious JAP AI option for the US player
- New events for ships conversions
- New special units consept
- UK surrenders to Italy event by Majoor de Wit
- Major powers now get specific naval modifiers
- As Germany, you can now take control of a few hun/rom units when Barbarossa begins # deleted
- And a lot of other details
MAP :
- Included Quintelosky's HoI2-Map mod (changes some province's names)
- Fixed map symbols (by skolehaven)
- Gibraltar, Scapa Flow, Sicily, Berlin and some other areas now look different (by 49h) # doesn't work
- You will now be able to target some key provinces for air missions (for example, bomb Berlin itself, not Brandenburg)
GFX :
- New load screen and menu screen
- New counters
- New counter strip
- New map colors
- Fixed/Added many pics (leaders and ministers)
- New flags set
- New interface
- Fixed some models
- Included Zimon's resources mod
Scenario :
- Fixed some units names
- Fixed some tech apps
- Fixed some starting manpower values
- Added "WiF MP" scenario dedicated to multiplayer games
- Added 3 dissent points in '36 for the USA
- Fixed Yorktown end production date
- Some small map fixes
- Cuba is now an american puppet
- Added convoys in the start buildqueues for UK, US and JAP (by froglegs)
- Guam is no longer JAP's core
- Reworked OOBs
Music :
- New music playlists (Axis, Allied, Comintern, Classical, Experience of Music, General)
- You can now choice your playlist by an in game event
- Added music switches when certain events fire...for example you will listen to a special track when Pearl Harbor is bombed
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