Modding Austria

[Justinian_A]

So, I decided to return to HoI2 and play a game as Austria. I have never attempted modding in HoI2, though...and I would like to make a couple changes that I saw recommended.

First, to give Austria cores on all land they lost in WWI.
Second, to give Austria "natural ownership" of Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

If anyone has some advice, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks

 

[Limith]

You can do it one of two ways.

Modding .incs

Or via events.

Personally, I like events, but it's up to you. (Making sure starting incs are working is annoying, can't have overlaps, etc. I wish there was a central ownership file where it was provid owner = <tag> controller = <tag> and I could just go through and edit that, and countries only included their core)

You can find a list of province id's online, by copying and pasting the ones from the Hungary .inc, by downloading a mod like Kaiserreich and copying the list of cores from that (they have Austria Hungary), etc. etc.

 

[unmerged(174159)]

The quickest way to get the relevant cores (and include them) is to run the game in windowed mode, have the .inc open, and use f12 and then the showid cheat. Just add all the cores for the area's to be 'National' provinces. Walaah, You now have your cores sorted.

By natural Ownership, I think there has to be a state of war at the start - so it would be best just to use cores.