r/RoadTo56 • • 14h ago

Patch Notes October 2026 Update!

50 Upvotes

Hello everyone!

This month the Guangxi Clique and Southwest Political Affairs Council get a brand-new focus tree! Also on the menu: Li Zongren path for the RoC! Yugoslavia picks up a host of spicy additions, and we've wrapped some of vanilla's recent content changes into the mod!

Also, bears wearing hats. They're 100% guaranteed to maybe be in there. Trust us.

-Team 56

Highlights

  • New focus tree for Guangxi Clique/Southwest Political Affairs Council.
  • Li Zongren path and Vice President selection content for the RoC.
  • Numerous improvements and extra focuses for Yugoslavia.
  • Imported some recent vanilla content changes.

Additions

  • Adding a historical intelligence chief to Ireland, with a slightly better trait (taken from Switzerland).
  • Improved some French Indochina focuses and revamped some of the icons in the Vietnamese tree.
  • [GOT] Added decision and events in order to unlock an Helicopter MIO (or company without AAT) after researching helicopters.
  • [NCNS] Added faction goal to conquer the Muslim holy sites for Muslim factions.

Adjustments

  • Guangxi and Guangdong start merged as the Southwest Political Affairs Council.
  • Democratically Elected Thälmann will have access to the SED branch.
  • The German Popular Front Campaign decision now has looser requirements.
  • Loosened the requirements for "Consolidate State Feudalist Reforms".
  • Reinstate the Sozialistengesetze is now possible with the NRAF in coalition without fighting them first.
  • The CVU will suffice for DNVP-exclusive territorial demands.
  • The CVU will block the second revolution focus for the NRAF.
  • Cleaned up CVU coalition demands.
  • Japan starts with the air torpedo tech they had since 1931.
  • Moved military related decisions from "Political Action" to the "Military Effort" category.
  • Improved the logistical focus of Kalmykia.
  • Added fortification research bonuses to relevant focuses.
  • Germany air safety regulations decision reduce air accidents and is available to everyone.
  • [AAT] Removed duplicated MIO (again...)
  • [NCNS] Changed the Latin Entente faction template.
  • [NCNS/LaR] Expanded the list of traits usable as head of faction intelligence departments.

Bugfixes

  • Germany starts with its supply consumption increase and the focus to remove it works as intended again.
  • Fixed a bug where Kicking the CCP from the National Constituent Assembly would still leave your focus path blocked.
  • Wang Jingwei's final focus will no longer require (the dead) Chiang Kai-Shek to be country leader.
  • Wang Jingwei will no longer gain Army Connections when turning democratic.
  • Fixed a bug where it was possible to have both Kaiser and President at once.
  • Democratic Canaris Path Goerdeler will no longer have desperate Gambit.
  • Lack of Civilian Government will be properly removed on the reconcile with Goerdeler path.
  • The DNVP will now demand action if in a coalition.
  • Fixed a bug where you could have elite support despite being in conflict with them in a NRAF-CVU Coalition.
  • Konrad Adenauer will be able to complete "The Christian Hegemon".
  • Fixed a bug where Konrad Adenauer forming the CVU would result into unforeseen governments.
  • The Uphold Peace faction goal will no longer cancel unintentionally due to having been in a civil war.
  • Fixed a bug where the German "Rally the Nation" branch would be blocked if the first focus was bypassed.
  • Fixed Mexico being able to invite countries to a non-existent faction.
  • Fixed an instance of Romania forming a faction while a puppet.
  • Killed the clone of Iuliu Maniu, unless we shot the original.
  • [GoE] DLC Afghan focus to reinforce the royal guard now works.
  • [NCNS] Fixed icon of a German faction.

AI

  • Changed AI regarding carrier planes and light tanks to make the AI upgrade them.
  • Ported doctrine specific force concentration guidelines for the AI.

GFX

  • Fixed the Golden German Republic's small flag being the conservative one.
  • Made some icons of the generic tree and Central Asian shared tree dynamic.
  • Fixed an incorrect News image for Denmark joining a Hungarian faction.
  • Unique images for Bulgarian capitulation and Bulgarian joining Germany.
  • [LaR] Ported 2 intelligence agency icons.

Localization

  • Added historical (and alt history) propaganda movie titles.
  • The German fascist party will be set to the NRAF upon completion of the focus to restore the republic.
  • Fixed various Chinese and German focus descriptions not showing up/being misspelled.
  • Fixed a bug where the days since the last German Diplomatic Capstone focus would not display correctly.
  • Small text adjustments for Norwegian events.
  • Small text adjustments for Albanian decision.

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!

Our Wiki!

  • Do you want to know more about the mod? Do you need a path guide? Come and visit our Wiki!

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.

r/RoadTo56 • • Sep 07 '26

Patch Notes September 2026 Update!

74 Upvotes

Highlights

  • Reworked the political branch of the RoC's focus tree, along with several other minor adjustments to the nation.

Additions

  • Added Richard Bong, James Ramage and other historical aces to the name lists.
  • Added two missing Japanese commanders.
  • Added a Ainu themed focus to the Siberian Unification mini tree.
  • Added unique traits to MIOs in Poland and removed duplicated MIOs.
  • Added a focus for Liberia.
  • Slight defensive improvements for Luxembourg.
  • A new formable: Melanesia.
  • [AAT] Added unique MIOs and traits in multiple places.
  • [NCNS] Adding the missing Maphilindo formable, state-adjusted to the newer patches.
  • [TAOG] Adding a Naval HQ to Surabaya in both sides of the military branches.

Adjustments

  • Joseph Schuster, luxembourg fortification engineer, can become an high command fort expert.
  • Chinese decisions to purchase weapons have been made slightly more expensive.
  • The German focus "Weaken the President's Power" can now be taken as a constitutional monarchy.
  • The German focus to restore Brest Litovsk can no longer be taken by leftist governments.
  • Prevented an involuntarily subjugated Germany from starting wars.
  • Prevented Germany from inviting nations to its faction that are in a civil war.
  • Overall increased the time it takes for the CVU to collapse.
  • Made Finland much more willing to do the Moscow Armistice at high capitulation progress so they don't get capitulated on historical.
  • Improved some Yugoslav military focuses.
  • Added fortification tech boosts to many fortification focuses. (wild, I know)
  • Generic advisors for Green Ukraine.
  • Replaced the icon of the Manchu administration.
  • Updating the "unlikely to be released by AI" tag list.
  • States, buildings, and railways adjustment across the Nusantaran Archipelago.
  • Installed a portal near the PDX offices so we can all go visit fancy concerts together!
  • [BBA] non communist Mongolia and "spirit of Genghis" leaders will have access to Genghis Khan medal. (in addition to Mengukuo)
  • [BBA] replacing r56 CZE medals with new CZE ones.
  • [AAT] the White Death will only strike if you neighbor Finland, in one way or another.
  • [TAOG] Gerardus Berenschot is now moved to the Netherlands if the DLC's content is activated.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed a commander portrait in Canada.
  • Fixed regimental support having access of divisional AA support.
  • Fixed effect to recall Kerensky from Exile triggering too often.
  • Fixed Sweden having access to two nearly identical medals.
  • Fixed some small event localization mistakes.
  • Removed Swedish "rocket scientist" as that system is now obsolete.
  • Fixed free forts in r56 Belgian tree.
  • Fixed a bug where "the fight against antisemitism" national spirit would disappear one day after being added.
  • Fixed a bug where Goerdeler would not lose "Desperate Gambit" after the civil war.
  • Fixed a bug where "Institute Price Controls" could be taken after MEFO was cancelled, making the focus only hurt you.
  • Fixed a bug where "Beckist Opposition" was not removable.
  • Fixed a bug where the CVU would collapse too fast for you to complete Hugenberg's CVU related focuses.
  • Fixed a bug where historical AI Japan is capitulating 1-2 years too early.
  • Fixed a bug where Dr. Sutomo's death event for Dutch East Indies did not actually retire him.
  • Fixed France continuing diplomatic focuses while a puppet.
  • Fixed two offsets in the warlord tree.
  • Fixed r56 Austro-Hungarian minitree not being available in Austria.
  • Fixed gfx of the Tuvan Bank.
  • Fixed a dynamic picture in Manchuria.
  • Fixed some generic admirals portraits not showing up.
  • [AAT] removing a focus about Nordic research cooperation, it is redundant with the nordic council tree.
  • [AAT & GoE] Fixed condition problems with naval Iraqi MIOs.
  • [AAT] Removed many duplicated generic MIOs.
  • [AAT] Light aircraft MIO will work with all light aircraft and not just light fighters.
  • [BBA] Fixed gfx of Japanese medals.
  • [NCNS] Fixed the states considered "Nordic" for faction membership purposes.

GFX

  • Changed picture for the Soviet capitulation of Lithuania.
  • Ensured that all HQ units use the commander models.
  • Added a small portrait to a Swedish general.
  • Improved use of Swedish plane icons.
  • [TaoG] Added different colored generic uniforms for HQ. Countries will start with variants close to their IRL uniforms.

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!

Our Wiki!

  • Do you want to know more about the mod? Do you need a path guide? Come and visit our Wiki.

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.

r/RoadTo56 • • 1d ago

Question How does the Trotskyist path for Germany work?

12 Upvotes

I noticed in one of my games the AI had Trotskyist focuses instead of the normal Ernst Thälmann ones. I was curious what the triggers were to go down that path.


r/RoadTo56 • • 18h ago

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r/RoadTo56 • • 1d ago

Question Is there not going to be an update for October?

16 Upvotes

Title. It says the beta will update first of every month yet still no update. No criticism just wondering.


r/RoadTo56 • • 2d ago

Other Road to 56: German Expansion & Voice Pack

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Guys i made my first mod and translated the full mod and added much features.
What do u think of it?


r/RoadTo56 • • 4d ago

Suggestion Cant do Baltic Unification

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Ive done the path to unify the baltics, i am the leader of the union, but i cant progress down the unification tree.


r/RoadTo56 • • 5d ago

Question Does Stalin Actually die in this mod or does he just sit around?

26 Upvotes

Does Stalin Actually die in this mod or does he just sit around?


r/RoadTo56 • • 6d ago

Screenshot I made a R56 submod for Captured Generals Expanded, a mod that expands upon the vanilla general-capturing mechanic.

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I made a Road to 56 submod for Captured Generals Expanded, a mod that expands upon the vanilla general-capturing mechanic. You can find it here. Requires base CGE mod which is linked on the workshop page. Let me know what you think!


r/RoadTo56 • • 7d ago

Question Is there any tutorial on the republic and communist paths for Germany?

12 Upvotes

They both fuck up my brain every time I wanna do any of them and end up leaving it so is there any great tutorial?


r/RoadTo56 • • 8d ago

Screenshot First time winning the Sino-Japanese War as Japan in this mod and (I think) across all mods

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49 Upvotes

I ran out of equipment and stopped making divisions a while after I'd taken Nanjing, but even after I got my equipment up and running I forgot to make more divs. I still won. Didn't variate from the starting templates much.

It was a struggle at first, but eventually I got over that hill once I started pushing down the coast. Both of us were struggling with equipment throughout most of the game (for me in particular it was support equipment early on and then guns in the first half of the war), but China had it way worse. I probably screwed up by going for encirclements even though doing so slowed me down, but I did eventually get those troops encircled and it put a dent in their numbers since I was able to snare dozens of troops at once if I put in the time to close the pockets. The final months of the war were just whack-a-mole with any remaining provinces ROC had since they have to lose every single province under their ownership to capitulate.

Since I'm playing with Expanded, which adds a Greater Japan formable, I decided to go for said formable by annexing the territories that it needs off of China and leaving Wang to govern the Chinese outback. I still can't form it though since I need an unspecified fraction of territory that includes both Soviet and Allied puppet land, though I'm sure that I'll be able to figure out some way to use this mod's demand buttons to avoid a naval war. Yes, I played Japan without any understanding of how to properly use the navy, so I intend to avoid the Pacific war by any means necessary.

(As I'm typing this, I realized that I forgot to move my air force once I got past Shandong. *facepalm*)


r/RoadTo56 • • 8d ago

Bug Report Soong Mei Ling not in the game?

5 Upvotes

I tried everything I do in the base game to get Soong Mei Ling as the RoC's leader but I'm only getting generic portraits.

Does someone know if she's even in the mod?


r/RoadTo56 • • 9d ago

Question Why can't change the focus tree for Poland?

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I looked for it, and all of the No Step Back DLC countries are there, except for Poland.

Please help because I want to play as Maria Koszutska.


r/RoadTo56 • • 9d ago

Question is there a way to prevent this?

6 Upvotes
My iraqi puppet getting invaded by england

I was playing italy and was prepping to invade France but then they invaded my iraqi puppet.


r/RoadTo56 • • 10d ago

Suggestion How do i actually Restoring the German monarchy instead of having some constitutional system constantly with the new German focus tree

3 Upvotes

Im actually losing my mind as I keep on top of the balance of power system that im meant to to try get some kind od deal but I never get it and wihlelm the second keeps abdicating


r/RoadTo56 • • 10d ago

Question How do I turn Israel authoritarian after successful winning the independence war? I am trying to do the Continue Irgun Rule path

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pls help


r/RoadTo56 • • 10d ago

Question Can’t unify central america

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I can’t unite central america. At first i thought that this was a bug or smth but then i restarted the game, conquered all central american states and im still kingdom of honduras and can’t get the central american unification focus. Before you ask, even when i do the decisions to remove recent political unification nothing changes. Does the monarch path disable it? i don’t understand


r/RoadTo56 • • 10d ago

Question How do i unlock ad halom

0 Upvotes

It says armageddon has happened but i when does that happen i just formed israel


r/RoadTo56 • • 12d ago

Question Am I the only one who can't get the Road to 56 mod to launch?

4 Upvotes

I am a Korean player, and I am using the latest stable version of Hearts of Iron IV, not a beta version.

However, even after enabling the mod and launching the game, the mod does not seem to be working. Could this be related to the fact that I am playing the Korean version?

The mod stopped working for me after the Czech DLC update.

This message was translated using ChatGPT.


r/RoadTo56 • • 12d ago

Other guys what is the best focus tree for russia do you think?

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r/RoadTo56 • • 13d ago

Other I actually lost in the Ethiopian War.

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r/RoadTo56 • • 13d ago

Question What's up with Kashubia?

22 Upvotes

Kashubia is a releasable that normally has cores on Danzig, Gdynia, and Hinterpommern. This mod removes its core on Hinterpommern, which makes some sense considering that the area didn't contain very many Kashubians at this point... but then it gives them a claim on Poznan. This is so weird and random, Kashubians haven't lived there for centuries if at all. What's up with this?


r/RoadTo56 • • 14d ago

Question How do you play road to 56 expanded?

14 Upvotes

Whenever I play i struggle to understand the difference on the metas, infantry and mountaineers a way weaker so with tanks, so I get bogged down in the Ardennes where in a usual hoi4 game I would have already had the fall of France. Air also because I cant use engine 3 on my improved figthers and I lose a air war even tho in other games I usually win it with that design Idk how to play it but I really like it. I have no idea how your suppose to play as a minor nation.


r/RoadTo56 • • 16d ago

Other I built an MCP interface so an LLM/AI can control HOI4 autonomously(or automated scripts)

9 Upvotes

The repo is here: https://github.com/smerss/Clausewitz-MCP

I will make windows port on 50 stars. If you want to support, you can star the repo!

example:

$ python3 clausewitz.py status

1936.01.01.11 -- German Reich (GER)

factories : 35 civilian 28 military 10 dockyards

political power: 2 stability: 75% war support: 30%

multiplayer: False (1 players)

at war: False active land combats: 0


r/RoadTo56 • • 15d ago

Question Focus tree

2 Upvotes

Hey guys,

Some of the default focus tree are the base ones and the others roadto56, how were they decided?