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Developer Diary | Graveyard of Empires

Generals, Long time no see..


Today we’re really excited to introduce you all to our latest country pack, Graveyard of Empires. Over the coming weeks, we will have a number of developer diaries showcasing the latest countries receiving new or updated focus trees. We will also have a number of streams so you can really get to grips with what to expect of all the latest content and we shall also be doing an AMA with the developer team.


Have a look at what’s coming:
(If you subscribe to the idea of linear time; opinions vary and changes may occur)

Graveyard of Empires DD Calendar

To give you a quick overview of what to expect in this country pack, let’s start by taking a high-level view of each country.

India
The Raj is the jewel of the British Empire, rich and strategically vital. However, a growing independence movement threatens to disrupt the war effort and dissolve the empire. A large focus tree emphasising the struggle of Indian Independence offers many alternate historical paths, including not just the revival of the East India Company as a corporate nation, but also the possibility of freedom for the Princely States, and the formation of Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Iran
Iran is a potential great power, hemmed in by the imperial pressure of the Soviet Union and the British Empire. A significant new focus tree will allow you to resist the imperial incursions that historically weakened Iran, as well as offering potential for a new and modern Persian Empire.

Iraq
Take control of this British client state and try to chart your own path, choosing to side against your overlord. Manage the many competing ethnic and religious factions in Iraq and develop the strategically important oil fields.

Afghanistan
Historically known as the Graveyard of Empires, isolated from the wider war, Afghanistan offers many alternate paths. Continue the historical path of neutrality and isolation, or choose the road of rapid industrialization and building a new power in the mountains of Central Asia.

Art & Achievements
While, at this point, some of this Diary is still in draft mode and has images like this…
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I do want to quote marblemadness, one of our marvelous artists: “…we’ve greased our elbows and dug deep into the sand to excavate the best art we could find, so I really hope you enjoy what we have to show!”
And leave you with a nice teaser..
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Expansion Pass - A Reminder

With this Expansion Pass we’re trying something a bit new. They are our way of both giving you a roadmap for the content that’ll be arriving over the next few releases, and letting you sign up to get that content at a 20% discount.

Expansion Pass 1 includes:
  • Instant unlock of three new 3D tank models and a music track
  • The Götterdämmerung expansion (Released Nov 14th 2024) - $24.99/£21.99/€24.99
  • The Graveyard of Empires country pack (March 4 2025) - $14.99/£12.79/€14.99
  • Prototype Vehicles unit pack (Q3 2025) - $6.99/£5.89/€6.99

 

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With this DLC, will Assyria become a releasable? even into the 1920s there were revolts in Turkey for an independent Assyria following the treaty of severes.
Also, with the Iraq contnet, will Britain get the ability to recruit the Iraq/Assyrian levies? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Levies they fought in the Anglo-Iraqi War and the Syria-Lebanon campaign, numbering 40,000. thats about 4 divisions in terms of hoi4 units!
 
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How many new mandate/protectorate countires will we get at the start of the game? Only middle eastern states are going to be puppets or everything starting from French Morocco up to Kuwait will be playalbe from the beggining? BTW. Dlc looks promising!
 
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I played Iran a few times in the past, conquering the free real estate in the Middle East before joining the big wars. I have the Expansion pass from last time, so I'll be returning there soon :)
 
Historically known as the Graveyard of Empires
Like surface level googling is all you need to know this isn't very old in reference to Afghanistan and in the sense that is being implied.

"The phrase, in reference to Afghanistan, does not seem to predate a 2001 article by Milton Bearden in the magazine Foreign Affairs."

And it wouldn't really make sense either seeing as Afghanistan was successfully conquered and held several times.

It's still a cool meme, but yeah, kind of in pop culture territory or in the realm of the made up promo post for CK3 with "we don't know much about Murchad's reign".
 
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A new East India Company? 1874 was not so long ago. A change in management might be just what is needed.

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Found here.
 
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And when will the huge number of bugs be fixed?
A lot of things in Götterdämmerung are still unplayable (especially the AI).
It's sad that DLCs are being released one after the other, but no one cares about them afterwards. After "Graveyard of Empires" come the two obligatory hotfixes, and then you don't hear anything from you devs for a few months until the next DLC is announced.
Finally take care of the content that's already in the game before new content is added!
 
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I was wondering if anything will be added to Syria, Lebanon and Israel/Palestine??? And if y’all are gonna add Davud Monshizadeh (SUMKA leader and SS soldier) as an advisor for Iran????
too early, SUMKA was formed after ww2, smt original abt restoring zoroastrinism would be better for iran's fascism path
 
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It's just a country pack done by one guy. Unbunch your panties.
Excuse me but I go commando, to respect my special forces that I keep getting killed in naval invasions.
 
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With this DLC, will Assyria become a releasable? even into the 1920s there were revolts in Turkey for an independent Assyria following the treaty of severes.
Also, with the Iraq contnet, will Britain get the ability to recruit the Iraq/Assyrian levies? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Levies they fought in the Anglo-Iraqi War and the Syria-Lebanon campaign, numbering 40,000. thats about 4 divisions in terms of hoi4 units!
That would be really cool ! I also hope we get the Arab Legion for Jordan, the Jewish brigade for Palestine, and Circassian/Cherkess cavalry for Syria
 
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Will there be a path to keep the Monarchy as the Raj historically? I assume obviously there's a path to have a Republic, and for the alternate history paths obviously fascism, communism, and the East India Company, but are there paths for keeping the monarchy (as democratic), an alternate path for staying with Britain, a One-Nation Solution (thus no India, Pakistan, or Bangladesh, but one nation on the subcontinent), and other fun things?

For Iraq, is there any events for the Hashemites in British Jordan and French Syria, a Levantine Kingdom of sorts?
 
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