WORLD ABLAZE

Update 8.0
Map

• Complete rework of naval zones in the pacific with new ones added
• Map rework of New Zealand, Iraq and Saudi Arabia
• Karjala split into 3
• Rework of terrain in Eastern Romania, Western Ukraine and Central Russia
• Split a dozen naval zones in the pacific into smaller ones.
• Pacific islands now have a uniform naval zone surrounding them
• Split Barents Sea + reworked Murmansk states
• Reworked Taiwan
• Moved mountain tiles from Eastern Desert to Cairo

Iraq Focus tree

• Created a New Industry Focus tree

• Created a New Military Focus tree
• Created a New Historical Focus tree
• Added Iraqi Generals

New Zealand tree

• Created a New Industry Focus tree

• Created a New Military Focus tree
• Created a New Historical Focus tree

Australia Focus tree

• Added a small focus tree for the defence of Australia

France Focus tree

• Create a new Monarchist Alt History tree

USA Focus tree

• Cash and Carry mechanic redone, now equipment is produced and sold on the market
• Old cash and carry decisions mechanic removed
• AI USA sells equipment, AI allies buy equipment

Balance

• Added a new Underdeveloped state modifiers on Eastern Russia and Caucasus

• Quadrupled Train requirements for supply in terms of distance. Stockpiles adjusted
historically
• Soviet reserve divisions + rebuild army spawn in both south and centre and at an
appropriate distance
• Rebuild the army focus is available earlier
• Rebuild the army unlocks emergency troops which spawns divisions every 7 days
instead of 14
• Rebuild the army decision now decreases training time
• Reworked total war speech requirements and total war speech unlocks the replacement
army decision
• Removed GER barb supply bonus
• War Austerity trains moved to 1942, added Simplified train tech to 1939
• Reworked train build and resource costs
• Drastically increased speed and combat penalties from low supply
• It takes 4 days to reach max supply penalty instead of 7
• USA starts with 40 mills
• USA educational orders now cost 10 civs instead of 15
• USA educational orders now give MIO funds and small production efficiency gain during
the timer
• USA reserves starting equipment % can be added to the stockpile via decision
• USA reserves start with more equipment but can be added to the stockpile instead
• USA base war support additions nerfed throughout the game
• USA selective service act extensions get removed/bypassed when selective service is
swapped off of
• USA selective service cost to change to other conscription laws now same as limited
conscription
• USA revitalize American air power focus now gives 10 mils
• USA 50 dockyards have been added to various naval focuses
• USA +20% dockyard construction speed to FY42 plan, +10% to FY40 plan, +10% to
emergency shipbuilding
• All tanks use 1 rubber
• New tank module, rubber tracks
• Base Synth rubber production increased to 4
• SOV A secure industrial base adds 4 more synths
• Moved 5% amphibious bonus from tank sealants and 10% from tank snorkels to tank
float tech
• Added Amphibious assault ship tech to 1942, moved floating harbours to 1944
• Atlantic wall fortification decision time based on number of coastal tiles and has been
reworked to be faster
• Moved out of supply bonus from Unyielding Defender to Aggressive Assaulter
• Moved low org bonus from Aggressive Assaulter to Unyielding Defender
• Panzer III N gets 10 of its Armor from its turret rather than Armor module
• Certain Soviet GPW focuses can be taken early if the capital falls
• Doubled Ship heavy gun efficiency on light ships
• Moved 18 starting UK dockyards to focus and mission
• Doubled Ship heavy gun efficiency on light ships
• Reduced logi-striking damage by 15%
• Buffed hardness for 10-25 Armor tanks by 20%
• Heavy Armor has received a supply reduction
• Nerfed Heavy AA piercing by 20%
• Frontline support doctrine gives a 2 CW reduction on Heavy AA
• Core population now gives a substantial amount of supply
• Removed CHI out of supply bonus
• Floating harbours now last longer and give more supply
• National Socialism and JAP militarism receives less WS penalty from casualties and
bombing
• Hungarian trade deal focuses give trade cost reduction between Germany and Italy
• Schact plan gives less trade cost reductions between Germany
• Rebalanced starting aluminium for all countries
• Aluminium mills now give 15 aluminium instead of 25
• Reduced convoy usage for units drastically
• Added bauxite decisions for Italy, SU, Hungary and USA
• Buffs to tier 2/3 battleship doctrine + tier 3 carrier doctrine
• Italian expand dockyards focus does not require naval reforms
• Nerfed USS Ranger deck space
• To see all enemy ports requires 100% naval intel
• Ships idle in water use fuel
• JAP tank Radio improvements
• Added more Soviet synths at the start of the game and through focuses
• Complete rebalance of infantry and heavy infantry soft attack and defence stats
• Reduced the cost of some soviet infantry equipment
• Submarine doctrine cost has been tripled
• Reworked/Lowered focus times for Germany
• Soviets losing the winter war is more impactful on Soviet stab and WS
• Buffed generic anti tank and AA equipment
• Nerfed Soviet and German stab through focuses to prevent going over 100%
• Service by requirement gives 1% more recruitable pop
• Intel gain through agents has been halved
• Every new agent assigned to intel gain gets there intel gain reduced by 10% not 50%
• German reform the Air industry requires 7k deployed planes
• German celebration of the Olympics gives 5% stab
• Protect the Suez focus now spawns buildings on the Suez not Alexandria and Cairo
• UK Mediterranean bastion does not add naval bases
• JAP militarism gives 5% operative capture chance
• FRA Quasi Legitimate state NS gives negative resistance growth

• Moved 10% pp cost from trotsky plot to cavalry army clique

• Italy can spend pp to increase air, tank and ship output
• Reduced railway and port lvl by 1 in Egypt
• Added supply hubs in Marsa Matruh
• War to end all wars gives another -10% Factory output
• Nerfed UK fatigue reductions + added historical 1938 fatigue event
• Developing to commonwealth uses fatigue
• Removed UK pp from chiefs of staff committee
 • Developing commonwealth uses fatigue
• ITA Naval focus tree has been reworked
• Italian BBs and Carriers are available earlier
• Corrected British radios + tetrarch moved to 1939
• GER reform the air industry requires being at war and 5k planes
• Plan the second generation focus reworked
• Removed Panzer III A & IV A
• Commonwealth starts with K guns
• Cruiser MKi & ii can be CS
• Buffed breakthrough from Autocannons and MGs
• Schwerpunkt gives 5% coordination
• Maneuver warfare gives org recovery instead of coordination

Other

• Soviet peace treaty can be triggered at kazan line

• Added historical 5in/38 refits to US standard class battleships
• Added 14in/50 to American New Mexico class battleships
• Speed 2 is now 20% slower than speed 3
• More division icons + reorganized WA division icons
• Added 15cm refit option to Admiral Hipper
• Fixed Mogami Layout
• Default occupation laws changed for Germany, USA, UK
• Fixed Scout car suppression stat to be above cav
• Lowered Recon, Naval Patrol fuel consumption modifiers
• Added Siberian Coal prospecting
• Fixed Shandong bauxite to historical amount
• Italy Armistice mission can fail if Allies are pushed out
• Owen SMG retains efficiency
• JAP get resource rights on North Sakhalin
• Added Heavy Bicycles
• BUL negotiate for rearmament should be alot easier to accomplish
• BUL civil war does not take away from the player's army but creates its own
• Added tooltips for Bulgarian neutrality focus and German Bulgarian focus
• Moved trade cost reductions to National Spirits for easier viewing
• Cheaper Carthinia bauxite excavation
• AVS-36 + PPD-34 starts in production for the Soviets
• Reworked Australian air purchases
• Crusader tank now retains some eff from the Covenanter tank
• Removed Agrarian state railway penalty
• Fixed hardness on Valentine and Hetzer
• Added Support Heavy tanks
• Various AI improvements
• Optimizations
• Ai Improvements
• Reported (and other) bugs fixed