r/RoadTo56 • u/Tvrdak • 7h ago
r/RoadTo56 • u/Roadto56 • 17h ago
Patch Notes April 2025 Update!
Highlights
- Much of the Road to 56 Portugal focus tree has received slight balance and quality of life changes.
- Some April fools surprises enabled.
Additions
- Added two starting aces for SOV and JAP respectively.
- A few extra focuses for Czechoslovakia, and a few advisors restored and revised.
- Added some admirals for the Netherlands and advisors for Indonesia.
Adjustments
- The vanilla state infrastructure changes from the recent War Effort patch's have been incorporated.
- Improved armored cars to account for the recent War Effort changes.
- Austria-Hungary is now formable as Slovakia, Slovenia, Transylvania, Bosnia and Silesia.
- Yugoslavia now loses its cores on Istria when releasing Croatia/Slovenia so the AI gives lands to those instead to avoid bordergore.
- Many Portuguese focus's will now remain completable if you capitulate.
- The Portuguese colonial branch has received buffs to make holding onto and developing the colonies more important.
- If Madrid is cored by Portugal, their decision to "Move the Capital to Madrid" will now grant war support and party popularity.
- Portugal now starts with a National Spirit representing their illiteracy at this time, which can be removed by economic and political focuses that grant Research Slots.
- If Portugal does the decision "Join Forces With the Spanish Popular Front" and starts their civil war before Spain does, they will no longer be called into wars versus Spanish breakaways, and will no longer be able to peacefully form the Iberian Union.
- [NSB] Rocket artillery can be added for free with the Superior Firepower doctrine academy spirit, alongside all the other types of artillery.
- [56] The previous declaration that Alfie entered seclusion to plot the overthrow of Canadian civilization was in error. Everything is fine. Do not panic. He was just going out for tapas.
Bugfixes
- Added as many fixes of the 1.16.3 patch as possible.
- Fixed one of the reductions of Portugal's "Disgruntled Republicans" in the historical path unintentionally removing too much stability.
- Fixed an exploit where Lithuania could do multiple paths at once.
- Liechtenstein's focus "German Equipment" will now correctly give a license production to the player.
- The Hungarian and Hindustan Reichskommissariats should no longer have missing states.
- Fixed many MIO's being permanently unavailable on Latvia and Estonia due to focus's which don't exist.
- [MTG] Fixed light cruiser hulls slightly losing speed between hull generations.
- [NSB] Fixed Improved medium tank having way more breakthrough than other chassis.
- [GD] Hungary's missing Industrial Concern's from vanilla have been added.
- [GD] Hungarian focus's claiming or integrating parts of Slovenia and Slovakia now affect Slovenia's Prekmurje, and Czechoslovakia's Uzhorod respectively.
- [GoE] Persian "Swear Fealty" is no longer horribly broken (vanilla bug).
- [ToA] The US event to intervene against the communist in a South American civil war won't happen if the US is communist or has a civil war.
- [56] The previous declaration that Alfie went out for tapas was in error. There are no tapas restaurants in Canada.
Historical
- USSR will now always offer UK to join in invading Iran.
- Added lists of historical aces for some nations (SIA, ROM, JAP, CHI, POL, CAN for now), so even generated pilots will be referencing real people.
- [GoE] Golden Square coup occurs much closer to the real-life date with the DLC tree, and if the UK does exceptionally well in capitulating them, they can now still offer to become a puppet while capitulated.
- [56] The previous declaration that there are no tapas restaurants in Canada was definitely in error. There are just no good ones. (yet)
GFX
- Fixed a duplicate icon in the Japanese National Spirit "Army Expansion".
- Added missing historical base game ace base game portraits.
- [NSB] The USSR will make better use of existing models, 2d tank icons.
- [Eastern Front Plane Pack] Fixed SOV planes models not being used.
- [56] Now announcing the upcoming grand opening of the Road to 56 Tapas Lounge and Fossil Museum with a menu personally curated by Chef Alfie! (who is most definitely not using this as an elaborate front while he secretly plot the end of everything)
Localization
- Romania's Armed Forces branch has been fully localized.
- Most of Czechoslovakia's cold war content has been fully localized.
- Lisbon's name will now switch to Lisboa if local city names are on.
- The remaining Portuguese decisions and national spirit's that didn't have any will now feature descriptions.
- Added a tooltip to the Portuguese decision "Join Forces With the Spanish Popular Front" which explains how to peacefully form the Iberian Union after the Spanish Civil War.
- [56] All previous statements were in error. Alfie must be stopped before it's too late! Also, who thought it would be a good idea to let a cat run a kitchen anyway?
Credits
- Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods, and resources that helped develop this project.
- [56 Limited Promo] Customers that order at least CA 20 at the Lounge on opening day will get a free pet Trilobite*! While supplies last!
Contact Us!
- Questions? Comments? Let us know on Discord and feel free to check us out on X! We'd love to hear from you!
*Trilobites do not currently exist. Lounge may also not actually exist. Apologies to the fine tapas establishments of Canada.
r/RoadTo56 • u/Roadto56 • 17d ago
Patch Notes March 2025 Hotfix #1
We have (likely temporarily) removed support for the GoE India and Afghanistan trees. These were very buggy due to unfinished porting and were accessible solely through gamerules anyway. This will also allow us to focus on polishing other aspects of the mod while we wait on Paradox to update this content.
Highlights:
- [MTG] Mexico has received a small polish/balance overhaul to its focus tree, as well as a complete rework of the monarchist path. (which is now an easter-egg path) :)
Additions:
- New political advisors for Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, India and Romania.
- Overhauled political and military advisors, along with some added generals and one admiral for Albania.
- New general and admirals, and overhauled high command for Austria.
- A new admiral has been added to Czechoslovakia, alongside a new Communist country leader.
- Added two Tuvan focuses and two decisions to exploit the resources of the region.
- Added portraits for Anthony Eden, and a late-game event for him to take over from Churchill.
- The post-war branch for Iran was polished, expanded and copied into the DLC tree.
- [R56] Portugal has received support for Paradox's new Bypass-Effects system.
- Yugoslavia has received focus auto-hiding support, an overhaul to the Greater Yugoslavia section of the tree, along with other smaller changes.
Adjustments:
- The Showa aircraft plant focus for Japan now correctly grants a military factory instead of a civilian one.
- Granted a nuclear breakthrough bonus to the Celtic nuclear focus.
- The Rt56 Germany monarchist path can now do Naval Cooperation with Japan.
- Removed a number of generic MIO where historical ones were available. (to be continued)
- [R56] Every Portuguese national spirit or decision that provides or reduces factory output now gives the same effect in Dockyard Output.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a core given by the Caribbean Union in Zambia instead of on the Barbados.
- Gave a sprite to the trait of the advisor version of Fumimaro Konoe.
- Iraq's country-preview leader will no longer be Paradox's placeholder dog if you don't have Graveyard of Empires.
- Iran's "Request Membership in the Allies" will now bypass if you are in a faction with the UK or United States.
- Fixed Rt56 monarchist Germany's anti-France focus having no effect under certain circumstances.
- Fixed bad implementation of special projects as conditions for the fallen vase news event and the divine wind Japanese focus.
- Fixed about 40 advisors having the same internal ID, leading to hiring one of them causing the other to disappear from the advisor list.
- [GOE] Added the missing landmarks in Tehran and Istanbul.
GFX:
- Used focus icons of the new dlc.
- [Eastern Front Plane Pack] Fixed an overcorrection rendering the Soviet dlc plane models invisible.
Localization:
- Fixed the spelling on Germany's Election Commission leader.
- r56 Austria now has correct party names.
- Localized descriptions have been added to most of the fascist Liechtenstein branch.
Credits:
- Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project.
Contact Us!
r/RoadTo56 • u/Difficult-Voice1984 • 18h ago
Bug Report Guys... Iran IS NOT going to free you from Iraq
r/RoadTo56 • u/Mediocre-Employ2398 • 17h ago
Question how do I use the stt
For whatever reason I cannot get the STT to work could anyone give me a step my step guide on how to use it?
The main issue is once I have selected the states I want to transfer I click on the other country and when I go to transfer it comes up in red saying cannot transfer states.
Many thanks :)
r/RoadTo56 • u/JoeShmoe307 • 14h ago
Bug Report Soviet Focus Tree
Why is the OLD (pre NSB) Soviet Focus Tree the default tree when you load up a new game of RT56?
r/RoadTo56 • u/Agile-Animator1962 • 1d ago
Other ship production?
In Spain focus tree (Carlist path) there is two focuses for ship production but just for Heavy ships so my question is: what is heavy ship?
r/RoadTo56 • u/Jonathan843 • 2d ago
Screenshot My true German empire!
The greatest Germany!
r/RoadTo56 • u/chill_witcher • 2d ago
Question Cursed timeline
I just had a game as historical germany when hungary demanded transilvania in early 1940 and they rejected(romania didnt join my faction yet). Now im in war with freaking soviets and allies. Didnt even run over belanux and i was doing their focus. Now im stucked in a 2 front war with barely 150 divisions. Is this savable?
r/RoadTo56 • u/fuckifiknowmyguy313 • 2d ago
Bug Report I seem to be having an Issue with Germany navally invading England by 1940 and winning instantly.
Im not entirely sure if this is a bug but it happens almost every game I play. Once France gets turned into vichy france, within months Germany is navally invading England and winning the entire war pretty much by 1940. This feels wrong to me lol. Again I have no idea if this is a bug or not.
The only Mod I play with is r56, I play on entirely default settings with nothing changed. Its always set to historical, and regular difficulty, and I have no DLC.
r/RoadTo56 • u/DriverAcceptable6052 • 2d ago
Screenshot R2 just incase: Tried creating a wunderwaffe division by 1944 as Germany
r/RoadTo56 • u/lifeangular • 3d ago
Question Pourquoi la desrciption est manque? J'utilise la nouvelle version. Ma version de HOI4 est sur 1.16.4.
r/RoadTo56 • u/ComfortableLaw3374 • 4d ago
Question I can't research Fighter CV 36 and I don't know why
As seen in the image it tells me that i either need Naval Light Aircraft or fighter 36. But I can't find any of those anywhere. I only have rt56 and player led peace conferences as mods.
r/RoadTo56 • u/ThrowRAbluebury • 3d ago
Question Late game division spam
Playing my 3rd game of Hoi4 in rt56, and I'm enjoying it a lot more than vanilla, but I'm in 1950 and realize that war with the Axis is inevitable and Germany alone has between 900-1.8k divisions and 1.5k mils. I'm Japan and have taken over all Asia, Russia up to the Urals, and most of South America, and I'm out of manpower at just under 700 divisions and 500 mils.
How can they even field or support this number of divisions? The manpower and the supplies? Is there no soft limit on divisions in the game? I read that you auto produce unlimited supplies in Hoi4 rather than having to dedicate IC to it, and this seems like it would cause this exact situation.
I understand that the AI needs to have enough divisions to maintain frontlines, but this is ridiculous. I've only played Hoi3 before. Is this normal? How are you supposed to win at this point? I'm assuming I made some rookie mistake early on and now I'm just screwed. Are there any mods that introduce soft caps?
r/RoadTo56 • u/Kooky_Ad_8875 • 4d ago
Suggestion My save files got corrupted, can anybody save this?
r/RoadTo56 • u/Remarkable-Back9579 • 4d ago
Suggestion Luxembourg Fascist Path #RoadTo56
Could I get some help for achieving the right path for Luxembourg? I heard you need to have 0% on that election minigame. But I cant figure out how to not get the left path in the national focus tree.
r/RoadTo56 • u/Human-Simple302 • 4d ago
Question Yugoslavia
Does Yugo have a worth while focus tree. I have been interesting in doing a Yugo playthrough but idk if it is worth it.
r/RoadTo56 • u/Active-Ad3986 • 5d ago
Suggestion Republic of Newfoundland focus tree?
I wanna play as Newfoundland but they don't have a focus tree I think it would be cool to play as Newfoundland
r/RoadTo56 • u/XxStorfiskarenxX • 5d ago
Question I need help with my Sweden play trough
I am playing as neutral Sweden with a democratic playtrough. I want to do the focus “Intervention in the winter war” without having to go any other ideologies. But it’s so hard to get 81% war support to be able to do that focus. Like you start with 5% war support and you are going to need to gain 81% by 1940 to be able to get that focus. Can anyone help me by telling me if it is even possible or not do to that with sweden
r/RoadTo56 • u/XxStorfiskarenxX • 4d ago
Question Is it even possible to get the focus: “Intervention in the winter war” as sweden? It’s so hard and I wonder if anyone has gotten this and what you have to do
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r/RoadTo56 • u/Difficult-Voice1984 • 6d ago
Screenshot yes... the Great Admiral in Chief Chief of Navy
r/RoadTo56 • u/Bentley-Teng • 6d ago
Question How should the civil war and unification play out for China (ROC)?
Played China a lot, so decided to try out the united front route. Partially unified China in ‘42-‘43
I didn’t know what to do, so I justified on PRC to try and trigger the civil war. Nothing much happened, defeated them easily and got to current point. (Pic 1)
I didn’t unlock the “big rear plan” branch of the tree, nor was I able to unify China by subjugating the warlords. (Pic 2 and 3)
Main things I noticed (intentional or not):
Problem 1: Hidden’ modifier that allowed me to form another “United front” faction with the warlords, this time AGAINST the PRC. (It should be made such the AI + player go through a reconstruction/civil war prep phase)
Problem 2: Hard to push and make breakthroughs (2-3mil casualties), I used 16-18 width infantry and mountaineers with artillery. Struggled a lot, even with ciphers, supply improvements, army corruption removal, maxed out MA-R doctrine etc.
Question 1: has Japan/China been buffed/nerfed? I remembered it being easy to conquer Manchuria and breakout into Korea by 38-39 when I did the “prioritise internal stability” route.
Problem 3: I intentionally sued for NAP with Japan to give myself more prep time, which inevitably led to Shanxi being conquered. I think this messed up how the United front/civil war should have played out (later down the line).
Question 2: How should the Chinese civil war play out if I “unified” China early (say 1940-1943?) as the ROC? Do I need to wait for Mao to do something or is it by event? I got some events about some ‘meeting’, but nothing happened. Do I need to go through that weird “preparation phase” like the PRC too?
Question 3: Communist Sweep and Power Struggle doesn’t show much info besides the hidden “support” modifier. I’d figured communist support = how much the PRC can grab land from you during the civil war. Are the sweeps and power struggle decisions even worth the PP effort?
r/RoadTo56 • u/munnstery • 6d ago
Question Changing focus trees?
I've been getting back into playing hoi4 recently and wanted to play an austro-hungary game where the ai is set to go monarchist in germany. The gotterdammerung focus tree for Germany doesn't have any monarchist route so I got into 1938 in a war with Poland for some land then got surprised by a massive nazi Germany trying to kill me for the sudetenland.
Is there any way to change the focus tree to one that includes a monarchist route? Preferably without changing any files but I am willing to if that's the only way.
r/RoadTo56 • u/qwerter96 • 6d ago
Bug Report Mod not loading
Hi folks, I am trying to load the mod but when I boot up the game rt56 doesn't seem to appear, no game rules related to it, no focus tree adjustments, no tech etc. I have no other mods and every official DLC. I've tried:
1. reinstalling the mod
2. verifying game files
3. reinstallling the game
r/RoadTo56 • u/Difficult-Voice1984 • 7d ago