I Need Some Help Making a Country

[BeardedHoplite]

Some of you may remember waaaay back when that I started an AAR for a custom-made country called the Dictatorship of Lower Chicago. The AAr only went for a few updates before computer trouble killed it.
Well for Darkest Hour I want to revive it, but I made it using the editor that came with HoI Anthology. So any tutorials for ministers, tech teams and generals would be appreciated, but I also need the directions for actually putting the country in the game, getting it to appear, etc.

 

[Lyrecryer]

here is the guide to make a new nation from Hearts of Iron 2. it is the same thing so it doesn't really matter much. if you want to, you can choose to give it a skin.

Q: What do I need to edit to make a new Country?
A: Making a new country from scratch is alot of work. First you would need to Hearts of Iron 2\config\world_names.csv and make change the entry for one of the userdefined countries (U00 - U19) to what you want your new country to be called. Now you take the tag for the country you just named and place it in the list of selectable nations in the Scenario File you wish to use it in. Now you must make a .inc File for that nation. You must also place an entry for that nation Hearts of Iron 2\db\revolt.txt that lists core provinces and the nations Capital. Finally you must place a sheild in Hearts of Iron 2\GFX\map\shields and a flag in Hearts of Iron 2\GFX\map\flags

 

[Tigey]

I have a related question. Are there any free country ID slots (ie: userdefined countries, like U12, etc)? I am looking in World_names.csv, and they all appear to be taken. Well, maybe not all, but the overwhelming bulk do (used up by the new European puppets). Were any new ID slots created, like in AOD?

 

[MartinBG]

There are still many available TAGs even in DH full.
We didn't added new TAGs to the engine as this is not really needed (Darkest Hour engine has full moddir support) and adding new TAGs just for the idea to have more will only hit the game performance.