Poland: OVERHAUL Mod

[wisztom]

Poland: OVERHAUL is mod centred around Second Polish Republic. In mod I've used jamiroquai000's ALL-IN-ONE Mod events and tech teams.

Poland: OVERHAUL is mod centred around Second Polish Republic. It features hundreds of historical events, meaningful decisions and balanced tech teams. Players bored by factory macro management may want to try new mechanism of Free Market economy automatizing industrial growth to focus on planning and building unstoppable army. New Manoeuvre Doctrine is interesting alternative to Blitzkrieg for less industrialized countries. Improved map adds more depth to gameplay and allows for daring manoeuvres and encirclements.

Mod is available only in English.

DOWNLOADS:

Version 1.0 for Darkest Hour 1.05
GOOGLE DRIVE (Latest Version)

Version: Beta 2 for Darkest Hour 1.05
GOOGLE DRIVE

Version: Beta 1 for Darkest Hour 1.04
GOOGLE DRIVE
FILEHOSTING.ORG (requires email address)

DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTION:
1. Unzip file into your Mods file.

SCREENSHOTS:
https://imgur.com/a/QMCk6

Poland features:

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- Map with 11 more provinces
- New unit: Armored Train (currently available only for Poland)
- Choice between Free Market and Central Planning economy in the beginning of scenario
- Several new tech teams depending on choosen economic doctrine
-- In CP teams can be upgraded for cash
-- In FM teams upgrade over time
- Doctrine choice similar to Kaisereich's majors
- New mechanism for building factories in FM Poland
- More events (over 100) featuring Polish inventions, fortifications and war
- Preventive war with Germany, Poland joining Anti-Komintern Pact
- Leaders skill rebalanced

Other features:

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- New doctrine based on General T. Kutrzeba plan based on cheap units like CAV, AC, etc. Doctrine can evolve either in Modern Blitzkrieg or NATO Doctrine.
- Torpedo tech no longer come with new brigade, instead add attack to SUBs, DD, CL and CA
- Armament minister traits rebalanced
- Tech team number rebalanced (3 at start + 1 every 25 IC up to 7)

Beta 2 changes:

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- Mod is now working with Patch 1.05. Several improvements from Patch were included in mod.
- Ported Invasion of Poland battle scenario on the new map and with A.Trains.
- Tech team changes.
- Added 3 more leaders.
- Naval School tech team in Free Market adapts to researched techs.
- Allies of Poland get bonus to armoured units within Gundlach’s Periscope events.
- Adjusted Airborne and Antigas Defence League event to give 30 single engine warplanes and 10 double engine warplanes.
- Liberating Gdansk (Danzig) activates tech team specializing in submarine, torpedo and early battleship techs.
- Fortress events are now more flexible.
- September ’39 victory events, fate of Germany, Klaipeda.
- Persistent event allowing moving up to 67% divisions strength to manpower pool.
- Added experience indicator based on Virtuti Militari military order.
- Flying bombs tech evolve into cruise missiles.
- Increased armor role by reducing softness value for tank brigades and divisions.
- Changed Warsaw capital icon
- Minor events, changes and fixes

Version 1.0 changes:

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- New scenario, allowing to play as Polish government in exile.
- In Central Planning economy, remade Central Industrial Region events. Now you have to manually build IC in specific provinces in order to unlock powerful tech teams.
- Rebalance and new sprite for Armored Trains
- Brigade rebalance
- In Free Market economy, naval shipyard tech team now gains experience from naval techs researched and improves accordingly.
- Additional events in Polish-German alliance, backstabbing included
- Option to build Intermarinum Pact after Germany is defeated. Soviets should be more agressive as well.
- Improved tech team balance, new rocketry specialist, more events, including flavour ones like having to research Faculty of Atomic Research in order to unlock nuclear specialist.

 

[Aniknk]

Whish you good luck, as it look interesting.

 

[Khor]

This looks promising. A few things:
- shouldn't only France join in a war against Germany with Poland?
- Hungary related events could be added (if they are already there, than disregard this.)
- Lend equipment should be Lend Lease or not?
- Foreign Volunteers event should not be available for Poland in my opinion
- Poland could claim lands based on the conquests of Boleslaw: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Polska_992_-_1025.png
(It would be interesting if Poland would take the place of the Reich as the nemesis in ww2.) In my opinion DH should have various alternate history events, but almost always a ww2, since if a country gets too large, sooner or later others would find it a problem.)
- French could take the place of Italy in this case. A Polish-French alliance against a British-Italian one would be interesting.
- If the Reich does not exist in 1940 or '41, than the Soviet Union could declare war, as they wanted otl. (source: https://archive.org/stream/ViktorSu...vorovIcebreakerWhoStartedWorldWarTwo_djvu.txt)

 

[wisztom]

This looks promising. A few things:
- shouldn't only France join in a war against Germany with Poland?

They sometimes join war when Reich is mostly beaten. Let's not forget anti-war lobby in France after WW1 which would scare any democratic government from starting another war.

- Hungary related events could be added (if they are already there, than disregard this.)

Hungary played big role during Polish-Bolshevik War but I can't find any major events in years 1933-39. In 1939 Hungary refused to attack Poland with Hitler. I think I can prohibit HUN joining Axis as long as POL is in game and increase chances for alliance between POL and HUN when GER is defeated.

- Lend equipment should be Lend Lease or not?

Not really. It would be nearly impossible to maintain secure connection between UK and Poland, so simple adding free IC is unrealistic. Instead, player must meet some conditions every week to get help.

- Foreign Volunteers event should not be available for Poland in my opinion

It is available to Luxembourg so why not Poland? ¯\_ツ_/¯ I'm sure that some Hungarians would enlist

- Poland could claim lands based on the conquests of Boleslaw: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Polska_992_-_1025.png
(It would be interesting if Poland would take the place of the Reich as the nemesis in ww2.) In my opinion DH should have various alternate history events, but almost always a ww2, since if a country gets too large, sooner or later others would find it a problem.)
- French could take the place of Italy in this case. A Polish-French alliance against a British-Italian one would be interesting.

Now during Preventive War relations with UK decrease if Poland is too belligerent, however Soviet Union would still be considered as much bigger threat. I will think of events to fire would Poland get too belligerent and start attacking Balkans, etc.

- If the Reich does not exist in 1940 or '41, than the Soviet Union could declare war, as they wanted otl. (source: https://archive.org/stream/ViktorSu...vorovIcebreakerWhoStartedWorldWarTwo_djvu.txt)

Good idea. Successful Preventive War leaves player with not much more to do.

 

[Khor]

Well the government of Teleki supported the Polish nation diplomatically in every way, even tried to ease tensions between the Reich and Poland (which couldn't have worked, since the Reich already planned the war.)
In 1939 refugees crossed the Hungarian border numbering in 100k. Soldiers and civilians alike. Thousands stayed there temporarily while others moved onwards to try to reach the Polish government in exile. Every single Reich request and order to give them up was denied, even when they were threatened with war.
All of the Polish units who crossed the border gave up their weapons, but only for safekeeping. They immediately got new papers and even payment from the Hungarian government, the same amount as a Hungarian soldier would get.
Thanks to the titanic efforts of the government and the Interior Minister ( dr. József Antall) around 70k soldiers reached the new Polish units in France and the Middle-East.
Thousands of civilians remained in Hungarian towns and villages. They got the same amount of salary from the Hungarian state each month, as a working Hungarian citizen would get.
Schools were created and opened for them and even a Polish military hospital was opened.
After the 1944 German invasion, things got worse, but before sent to the Armia Krajowa. In the Warsaw uprising two Hungarian divisions were stationed there. (It was a pretty stupid Reich decision by the way.) The two divisions sent volunteers to the Polish rebels, ammunition, weapons, supplies and protected every unit that crossed their territory. In numerous occasions there was firefight between Reich and Hungarian units, because the Hungarians protected retreating Polish squads.
After the failure of the uprising the Polish soldiers once again got Hungarian uniform, false papers and made-up Hungarian names so the Gestapo and other offices would not find them.
Hitler was furious. They invaded Hungary easily (because some of the generals were German friendly and they did not carry out a defence order) and did not think this would happen.
It was a real possibility that if they tried to disarm the two divisions, than they would join the Polish Home Army and Hungary would also rebel entirely. There were many meetings between Armia Krajowa and the Hungarian military and an alliance have only been narrowly voted down.

the subtitle is in English

audio in Polish, subtitle in Hungarian

These are only a few things from which happened. Translating them to valid events are a bit more problematic, but some of these could work.

 

[Rangergxi]

Mod looks pretty well made. Poland isn't comically overpowered.

Do you have it set so that Poland can still be an active player after it falls?

 

[wisztom]

Mod looks pretty well made. Poland isn't comically overpowered.

Do you have it set so that Poland can still be an active player after it falls?

In mod I've focused on giving player tools not to be defeated. I'm open to criticism concerning balance, For example I'm not sure, what exact price should be for lending equipment from UK or maybe cooldown of 7 days is sufficient and money and supply cost is unnecessary as it's in UK's interest to preserve second front as long as possible. Maybe I'll experiment with France AI so it actually start fighting after few months if dissent in GER is high enough.

Implementing Poland as gov-in-exile in DH is technically possible, however in that case I'd rater restart or continue as a major power to have actual influence over history. I'm afraid playing as country without territory, with handful of subs, destroyers, fighters and few land divisions, dependent on not-so-bright AI, would not be very exciting. There are mods that already implement Polish Armed Forces in the East and West and IMHO that's the way to go.

 

[Rangergxi]

Dunno, having an Island with a bunch of IC could be done to represent an exiled government. It'd be nice to play as Sikorski's Poland, maybe pull a Charles De Gaulle with Warsaw before the commies arrive.

 

[jamiroquai000]

Wow! Very good work!!! Maybe add some of your work in ALL-IN-ONE.

 

[Rangergxi]

In mod I've focused on giving player tools not to be defeated.

Dunno.. I'm in 36 and the IC disparity is pretty massive. I don't think these ahistorical forts will save the situation.

 

[wisztom]

Wow! Very good work!!! Maybe add some of your work in ALL-IN-ONE.

Great! However you might want to wait till I fix some bugs I've found (currently testing Gundlach Periscope triggering in allies of Poland) and balance things properly (trains, minister traits, etc.)

Dunno.. I'm in 36 and the IC disparity is pretty massive. I don't think these ahistorical forts will save the situation.

They are not unhistorical:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modlin_Fortress#Post_World_War_I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osowiec_Fortress#After_World_War_I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_Fortified_Area
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortified_Area_of_Silesia
Building fortifications in Poznan was proposed in "Studium planu strategicznego Polski przeciw Niemcom Kutrzeby i Mossora" (eng. Study of Poland's strategic plan against the Germans) ISBN 83-211-0863-6.
IC disparity historically didn't have reliable workaround, but it can be mitigated with smart plan. In this setup:
https://i.imgur.com/Ek2wuLi.png
I was able to launch an offensive in Slovakia and Silesia, but failed to take East Prussia and port on Baltic to secure British convoys and north front.
Germans are handicapped by the fact that they have to keep units on France border and shores, and over time they will be getting bigger and bigger dissent spikes, especially if you succeed to sunk their battleships.

 

[wisztom]

Beta 2 is now available for Darkest Hour 1.05.
Link: Google Drive
If there is demand for 1.04 version, let me know
Patch Notes are in opening post.

 

[der Kriegsherr]

@wisztom

Looks interesting.
Earlier this year, I actually fleshed out the Polish People's Republic minister .csv file for @Bizon for NWO2
If you think you could get some use out of it, I could send the files your way if you want.

 

[wisztom]

@wisztom
If you think you could get some use out of it, I could send the files your way if you want.

Interesting, are those ones included in ALL-IN-ONE mod - ministers_poland.csv and ministers_U32.csv or others?

 

[Khor]

Just something you could include in an event, or event-chain: http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/mag...olish-exiles/434746-3417142-j1carr/index.html

 

[Soul of Darknes]

I think Rhineland remilitarization is a better choice for the invasion of Germany because Poland would have a better reason to invade Germany and probably UK and France support as they won't want to start a war and they would use Poland to end German threat and it will be better for gameplay, Germany would have a decent army to match the Polish army so they could win, in '33 Germany has no chance to win. The results could be very interesting like nazi party disbanded and democracy restored in Germany, some polish territory for Poland, Italian less courage to invade Ethiopia as they saw what happened to Germans or Germany victory giving the Germans the collidor and war payments to rearm themself etc.

Anyway, nice mod and good luck with it.

 

[der Kriegsherr]

@wisztom

U32.csv
I got most of the historical commie ministers up until the late 80's.

 

[wisztom]

I think Rhineland remilitarization is a better choice for the invasion of Germany because Poland would have a better reason to invade Germany and probably UK and France support as they won't want to start a war and they would use Poland to end German threat and it will be better for gameplay, Germany would have a decent army to match the Polish army so they could win, in '33 Germany has no chance to win. The results could be very interesting like nazi party disbanded and democracy restored in Germany, some polish territory for Poland, Italian less courage to invade Ethiopia as they saw what happened to Germans or Germany victory giving the Germans the corridor and war payments to rearm themselves etc.

Historically, Poland would actually attack Germany if France did it first. Without French initiative there was no good casus belli IMHO. Voting against the Remilitarization would make no difference. I think that establishing Wehrmacht and annexing Sudetenland might be better reasons for war and make interesting difficulty scaling:
Preventive War as tutorial or easy mode;
Wehrmacht '36 as medium;
Czechoslovakia '38 as hard;
and September '39 as very hard.

U32.csv
I got most of the historical commie ministers up until the late 80's.

Hmm, maybe I will add another alternative scenario that would be caused by losing Polish-Soviet War. In that case I'd be happy to use your work .

Just something you could include in an event, or event-chain: http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/mag...olish-exiles/434746-3417142-j1carr/index.html

Nice, didn't know about it.

 

[wisztom]

To all people interested in including my mod I've prepared simple way to add Poland:OVERHAUL tech teams.
Mod supports years 1918-2000. Mod includes espionage and heli design specialties. Mod supports both republican and Sanacja teams.
Some events overlap with Poland:OVERHAUL ones.

Just unpack polishtechteams.rar to your mod and:
Add: event = "db\events\teams_pol.txt" to db\events.txt
Delete: teams_pol.csv from db\teams.txt
Add: teams_pol1.csv to db\teams.txt
Add: teams_pol2.csv to db\teams.txt

 

[Quinto Fabio Massimo]

To all people interested in including my mod I've prepared simple way to add Poland:OVERHAUL tech teams.
Mod supports years 1918-2000. Mod includes espionage and heli design specialties. Mod supports both republican and Sanacja teams.
Some events overlap with Poland:OVERHAUL ones.

Just unpack polishtechteams.rar to your mod and:
Add: event = "db\events\teams_pol.txt" to db\events.txt
Delete: teams_pol.csv from db\teams.txt
Add: teams_pol1.csv to db\teams.txt
Add: teams_pol2.csv to db\teams.txt

Thank you very much.