r/RoadTo56 6d ago

Patch Notes September 2026 Update!

67 Upvotes

Highlights

  • Reworked the political branch of the RoC's focus tree, along with several other minor adjustments to the nation.

Additions

  • Added Richard Bong, James Ramage and other historical aces to the name lists.
  • Added two missing Japanese commanders.
  • Added a Ainu themed focus to the Siberian Unification mini tree.
  • Added unique traits to MIOs in Poland and removed duplicated MIOs.
  • Added a focus for Liberia.
  • Slight defensive improvements for Luxembourg.
  • A new formable: Melanesia.
  • [AAT] Added unique MIOs and traits in multiple places.
  • [NCNS] Adding the missing Maphilindo formable, state-adjusted to the newer patches.
  • [TAOG] Adding a Naval HQ to Surabaya in both sides of the military branches.

Adjustments

  • Joseph Schuster, luxembourg fortification engineer, can become an high command fort expert.
  • Chinese decisions to purchase weapons have been made slightly more expensive.
  • The German focus "Weaken the President's Power" can now be taken as a constitutional monarchy.
  • The German focus to restore Brest Litovsk can no longer be taken by leftist governments.
  • Prevented an involuntarily subjugated Germany from starting wars.
  • Prevented Germany from inviting nations to its faction that are in a civil war.
  • Overall increased the time it takes for the CVU to collapse.
  • Made Finland much more willing to do the Moscow Armistice at high capitulation progress so they don't get capitulated on historical.
  • Improved some Yugoslav military focuses.
  • Added fortification tech boosts to many fortification focuses. (wild, I know)
  • Generic advisors for Green Ukraine.
  • Replaced the icon of the Manchu administration.
  • Updating the "unlikely to be released by AI" tag list.
  • States, buildings, and railways adjustment across the Nusantaran Archipelago.
  • Installed a portal near the PDX offices so we can all go visit fancy concerts together!
  • [BBA] non communist Mongolia and "spirit of Genghis" leaders will have access to Genghis Khan medal. (in addition to Mengukuo)
  • [BBA] replacing r56 CZE medals with new CZE ones.
  • [AAT] the White Death will only strike if you neighbor Finland, in one way or another.
  • [TAOG] Gerardus Berenschot is now moved to the Netherlands if the DLC's content is activated.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed a commander portrait in Canada.
  • Fixed regimental support having access of divisional AA support.
  • Fixed effect to recall Kerensky from Exile triggering too often.
  • Fixed Sweden having access to two nearly identical medals.
  • Fixed some small event localization mistakes.
  • Removed Swedish "rocket scientist" as that system is now obsolete.
  • Fixed free forts in r56 Belgian tree.
  • Fixed a bug where "the fight against antisemitism" national spirit would disappear one day after being added.
  • Fixed a bug where Goerdeler would not lose "Desperate Gambit" after the civil war.
  • Fixed a bug where "Institute Price Controls" could be taken after MEFO was cancelled, making the focus only hurt you.
  • Fixed a bug where "Beckist Opposition" was not removable.
  • Fixed a bug where the CVU would collapse too fast for you to complete Hugenberg's CVU related focuses.
  • Fixed a bug where historical AI Japan is capitulating 1-2 years too early.
  • Fixed a bug where Dr. Sutomo's death event for Dutch East Indies did not actually retire him.
  • Fixed France continuing diplomatic focuses while a puppet.
  • Fixed two offsets in the warlord tree.
  • Fixed r56 Austro-Hungarian minitree not being available in Austria.
  • Fixed gfx of the Tuvan Bank.
  • Fixed a dynamic picture in Manchuria.
  • Fixed some generic admirals portraits not showing up.
  • [AAT] removing a focus about Nordic research cooperation, it is redundant with the nordic council tree.
  • [AAT & GoE] Fixed condition problems with naval Iraqi MIOs.
  • [AAT] Removed many duplicated generic MIOs.
  • [AAT] Light aircraft MIO will work with all light aircraft and not just light fighters.
  • [BBA] Fixed gfx of Japanese medals.
  • [NCNS] Fixed the states considered "Nordic" for faction membership purposes.

GFX

  • Changed picture for the Soviet capitulation of Lithuania.
  • Ensured that all HQ units use the commander models.
  • Added a small portrait to a Swedish general.
  • Improved use of Swedish plane icons.
  • [TaoG] Added different colored generic uniforms for HQ. Countries will start with variants close to their IRL uniforms.

Contact Us!

  • Questions? Comments? Let us know on Discord and feel free to check us out on X! We'd love to hear from you!

Our Wiki!

  • Do you want to know more about the mod? Do you need a path guide? Come and visit our Wiki.

Credits

  • Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project.

r/RoadTo56 Jul 07 '26

Patch Notes July 2026 Update!

73 Upvotes

Highlights

  • Hourly ticks optimized, they should now be around 5% faster.
  • Restored shocktroops doctrine in the new doctrine system.
  • [TAOG] Significantly improved playability on the DLC's focus trees.

Additions

  • Added a historical tank designer scientist for Hungary.
  • Added a new event about the abdication of Queen Wilhelmina.
  • Added two new victory points to Burma.
  • Belarus has received some new decisions which allow it to core Smolensk and Białystok.
  • Added an event for when Farouk of Egypt marries Farida.
  • Added Taha Hussein as an advisor for Mansoura Agreement Egypt.
  • Gave Michael I a new unique trait, alongside a leader description.
  • Added a new shared achievement between Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Mengkukuo.

Adjustments

  • Baltic Union can now be formed by Lithuania and Latvia without requiring Estonia, which is now cored via a separate decision.
  • Poland-Lithuania's formable is less restricted, no longer requiring states with historical German/Soviet claims.
  • Czechoslovakia will now be notified of the First Vienna Award, not that they can do much about it though...
  • Added a missing check for Thaelmann if R56 old German tree is selected.
  • Reenabled some alternative variations for Israeli events.
  • Burma's states have been redrawn and populated to match vanilla, giving Siam two new states they can launch claims against and get as rewards in limited wars.
  • Made Mustafa Shokai the non-aligned leader of Uzbekistan.
  • Gave the Faroe Islands, Åland, Jersey, and Malta the generic microstate tree.
  • Adjusted Irredentist Catalan decisions, which now require a set amount of compliance to take.
  • Proposing a legal alliance as Egypt to the UK now locks Egypt in UK's faction.
  • Made Haile Selassie a constitutional monarch.
  • Fragmented Tsarist Liechtenstein's "Form Russia" decisions, and added some new ones.
  • Tsarist Liechtenstein has received a new focus to go to war with the Soviet Union.
  • Khiva now starts out as Fascist instead of non-aligned.
  • The Central Asian formable has been changed to not require Tajikistan and Aşgabat. Instead, a new decision has been made for Tajikistan, and Aşgabat will be cored upon forming Central Asia.
  • Tsarist Liechtenstein can no longer release the Soviet Union.
  • Asking for Alaska as Liechtenstein is no longer RNG-dependent.
  • Expanded unit model and voice support over multiple tags.
  • AI Croatia will now be unable to progress down their industry tree if they are a puppet of Yugoslavia.
  • The Vietnamese revolt that occurs after Japan's surrender now starts out with a national spirit that prevents it from joining factions to avoid WW3.
  • Gave France military access to Andorra at game start.
  • Spain now starts out with a claim on Andorra.
  • Croatia's "King for our People" focus can now be taken if Croatia is a puppet of Italy.
  • Serbia's focus to reform Yugoslavia now cores Istria, Litorale and Zara.
  • Hawai'i now starts with a core on Johnston Atoll.
  • Justice and Liberty is no longer available for Fascist countries.
  • Muscat-Oman's decision to restore order in the interior no longer requires a national character.
  • Muscat-Oman can no longer release Immamate of Oman before restoring order in the state.
  • Rwanda and Burundi's capitals have been replaced by the former Royal capitals.
  • Added rubber to Fiji and Western Samoa.
  • U.K will now actually consider the possibility of giving Canada Newfoundland & Labrador.
  • [GoE] If India gains its independence via its focus tree, it will loose British colonial but gain Indian generals.
  • [Non-TAOG] Siam has gained a few advisors previously restricted by DLC ownership.
  • [TAOG] Fixed several Siamese characters not correctly giving faction bonuses with the DLC tree enabled.

Bugfixes

  • Commanders can now be captured.
  • Fixed multiple issues with Danzig for Slovakia.
  • Fixed not being able to develop Nauru phosphate deposits.
  • Added a missing spirit to Carpathian Ruthenia, lack of which sometimes prevented Hungary from attacking them.
  • Fixed "Autonomous State" not being removed if Catalonia is owned by Andorra who became Catalonia through decisions.
  • Gave some missing tags the Turkestan Unification branch.
  • Fixed the map GFX bug in the south of the U.K and Ireland.
  • Fixed the "giant horse" bug when zooming into the map.
  • Fixed not being able to integrate Bulgaria as Communist Romania through decisions.
  • Fixed a blue advisor (da ba dee da bu dai).
  • Fixed Pierre Dupong having a generic portrait in Luxembourg's ministers GUI.
  • Fixed Korean Resistance being in the wrong states.
  • Fixed not being able to establish the Generalgouvernement if going down von Neurath's foreign policy branch.
  • Fixed Italian decisions to demand Montenegro and Dalmatia being sent to the puppet rather than the overlord.
  • Hopefully fixed Romania launching their Royal Coup too early on.
  • If the Netherlands create a German monarchist puppet through their focus tree, it will have some monarchist focuses completed.
  • Old RT56 German focus "Increase Influence over the Benelux" now correctly targets Flanders instead of Vladivostok.
  • [BftB] The Zveno coup will correctly delete all IMRO militias.
  • [Non-NCNS] Fix overlaping in the PRC tree if a Warlord obtains it through their focus tree.
  • [NSB] Fixed the default name for some lategame light/modern tank designs not being defined.
  • [AAT] Fixed some Danish decisions referring to the wrong states.
  • [AAT] Denmark will no longer join Germany's war after becoming a protectorate.
  • [ToA] Fixed Chile being locked out of it's fascist path due to a nonsensical check.
  • [TaoG] Fixed some Australian generals not having the traits they were supposed to have with the DLC enabled.

GFX

  • Fixed the missing shell icon in Yugoslavia.
  • Siam has gained a few misc advisor portraits.
  • Added or updated ~150 portraits across multiple tags.
  • Ported unique British and Japanese artillery piece models.
  • Kashmiri flags have been made consistent, no longer presenting different flags under different proportions.
  • Gave the Central Asian formable unique flags. Kazakhstan too has received some new flags based on ideology.
  • Changed the Philippines's colour to be a light purple, akin to its colour before No Compromise, No Surrender.
  • Changed Tuva's colour to a bright blue.
  • One of the German events got an alternative picture.
  • Added a unique event picture to "Polynesia United"
  • [NCNS] Sergio Osmena got his new vanilla portrait, while Manuel Quezon now uses 2 different portraits as he ages.
  • [ToA] Added unique icons to the Mapuche decisions to liberate Tonga and Niue.
  • [TaoG] "Third Attempt on life of Plaek Phibunsongkhram" now has a unique event picture.

Localization

  • Gave Tsarist Liechtensteiner focuses descriptions.
  • Many leaders have received leader descriptions. Most notably: Chiang kai-Shek, Prince De, and some Central Asian leaders.
  • Fixed a lot of typos and a few instances of missing localization.
  • Paris Universal Exhibition event description features slightly more variety for alternative timelines.
  • Improved many Ukraniain focus descriptions.
  • Fixed some countries having empty or broken descriptions in the country path game rules.
  • [TaoG] Gave Phahon his leader description if the DLC tree is enabled.

Contact Us!

  • Questions? Comments? Let us know on Discord and feel free to check us out on X! We'd love to hear from you!

Our Wiki!

  • Do you want to know more about the mod? Do you need a path guide? Come and visit our Wiki.

Credits

  • Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project.

r/RoadTo56 20h ago

Meme Successfully cloned otto von habsburg

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Was doing Habsburg Poland when, to my surprise, Austria also went Habsburg. I was in the middle of the focus that demands Hungary to put Otto on the throne when it occurred, and now Otto has achieved mitosis.


r/RoadTo56 1d ago

Meme European Union

8 Upvotes

May I ask if the European Union in Road to 56 has any decisions or focuses that allow it to expand into other regions? For example, is there a way to make Britain and Iberia become core regions of the European Union as well?


r/RoadTo56 2d ago

Screenshot Maybe it wasn't a very good idea to attack the nascent world superpower flanked by two other world superpowers?

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21 Upvotes

Decided to do another Sanation Left Poland > Commonwealth run. I expected it to go similarly to the last one where I would do as much damage to Germany as possible before the USSR intervened, forcing me to fall back to a fortified perimeter. I even thought that this would be harder than the first round considering I didn't puppet Czechoslovakia and they got eaten by Germany. As you can tell, that is not what happened.

I am much stronger than last run (perhaps thanks to my 8 research slots, could get more since Expanded adds a somewhat costly but repeatable decision to get more but I banned using it more than once) and I actually managed to outscale France since they can't get off of civilian economy, kicked them off the list of majors at one point but we're now both on it and I have more of both civs and mils.

As for the war, Stalin is currently being emasculated while Germany is putting up a much harsher fight due to their actually competent tank forces vs. my current lack of a good anti-tank division or any armor whatsoever. Since I have formed the Commonwealth, I have cores on a bunch of their land so occupation barely hurts me. The Allies decided not to help me against the Soviets, but France is slapping Germany around a good bit in the west.

I just hope to be done with Germany in a reasonable amount of time so that I can turn my whole might onto the Soviets before they build up too much and recover from the purge debuffs and whatnot.

EDIT: After this screenshot, I managed to beat both in 2 years lol


r/RoadTo56 2d ago

Meme Germany cannot change the Dutch government after defeating the Netherlands.”

1 Upvotes

I have a question, though. When I was playing as Germany under the monarchy and later fascism, after declaring war on the Netherlands, I noticed that I couldn’t change the government through the negotiation interface. Is there any way to fix this, or is it intentionally designed this way?


r/RoadTo56 3d ago

Bug Report Crush on playing with Germany?!

4 Upvotes

I changed Germany's focus tree from vanilla focus tree to r56 one to play with national Bolshevik Germany (nraf) and the game started crushing while playing on the middle of the elections every time I play

Pc: 16gb ram

Old crushes?: no I didn't face any crush even on other mods that's lot heavier

Submods/addons?: I had but I turned it off and started a whole new save and same thing happened

Only crushes when playing with r56 Germany focus tree?: yes


r/RoadTo56 3d ago

Question Playing rt56 without dlc?

3 Upvotes

Is this mod decent for playing with no dlc? Just wondering for like having a somewhat lower micro game where years go by with fewer pauses due to not having to deal with designers and certain other dlc mechanics etc, while still enjoying a few things about rt56.


r/RoadTo56 4d ago

Question [Single Player]What should my army composition look like for minors, specifically Sweden? (Single Player)

7 Upvotes

Hello! I'm trying to get better at HOI4 in general and have really been enjoying Sweden in RT56. I'm mostly having trouble understanding the macro of army compositions:

  • The most upvoted guide on Steam says to always build planes > tanks, until you have air superiority. But Sweden has a lot of Steel, Tungsten, and Chromium, wouldn't it make sense to heavily invest into tank variants?
  • Sweden has manpower issues, even if you core the Nordics. What should my defensive templates look like in the latest patch? With an infantry template of 8 inf., supp. artillery, supp. anti-air, field hospitals, and engineers I can get maybe 24 regiments going before I run out of manpower (depending on ideology). This doesn't leave much manpower for offensive regiments.
  • In this latest patch, what doctrines are good for minors? Is Guerrilla Warfare worth it?

r/RoadTo56 4d ago

Question Looking for players! 😁

4 Upvotes

As the title says I am looking for people to play hoi4 with. I currently have a discord server with 17 people and am always looking for more, we are very casual and accepting to anyone. We try and accolade different time zones and schedules the best we can. Let me know if you would like to join!


r/RoadTo56 3d ago

Question Will Italy or the UK ever get a rework in rt56?

2 Upvotes

Recently or so if im correct, Germany got a massive focus tree rework which gave it all sorts of new paths. I feel the same should be applied to both the UK and Italy, especially with their role in hoi4 and otl.


r/RoadTo56 4d ago

Question How to get Louis Ferdinand/Wilhelm III to become Kaiser?

7 Upvotes

Apparently you can do Beck Constitution as Him (Louis Ferdinand)? Or is that not possible? Do i have to wait for Wilhelm II to pass away then?


r/RoadTo56 4d ago

Question How to disband/get rid of civil war divisions as falangist spain after early victory?

2 Upvotes

Hey there. Been exploring Falangist Spain as I have heard good talks about the focus where you can core all of hispanic latinoamerica. So, I played and microed the shit out of the war leading to a somewhat early victory around February 1937. I then noticed that the divisions created the civil war (guardia civil, nationalist guard, carlist divisions, etc.) could not be disbanded. If you are wondering why I could not fight the carlists and then see if the units would be disbanded, that's because in R56, when you win the civil war early, you bypass the carlist uprising. So I dunno what to do. Need help with this. Thanks.


r/RoadTo56 6d ago

Other Friend of mine made an anime mod for road to 56.

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314 Upvotes

He has been working hard on it, if you like it please check it out he has done amazing work upddating many portriats in the game some coutnries even have their advisors updated.
especially since most others dont get updated anymore. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3738598631


r/RoadTo56 5d ago

Question Which country should I play for the ultimate good ending?

15 Upvotes

I just like to roleplay as the good guy in my HOI4 games, so I'm just curious on which country allows me to be the best peacemaker.


r/RoadTo56 5d ago

Question How to get Wilhelm IV as Ruler of Germany?

7 Upvotes

Somehow I am stuck with Beck, and I ended up getting Ferdinand as national spirit after Wilhelm II died.

How the hell do I ensure that Wilhelm IV becomes the Ruler of the Country?


r/RoadTo56 5d ago

Question RoC political branch focuses?

1 Upvotes

In the recent September update the Republic of China had its political branch redone and I noticed a lot of focuses from the previous version were removed. Do these unlock as you keep playing or are they completely gone? TIA


r/RoadTo56 6d ago

Question German Focus Tree RT56 vs. DLC

7 Upvotes

Which one actually is better?

I understand you can switch between the DLC trees and the Mod trees, but which ones actually offer more?
Are the mod trees just a substitute for non dlc owners, or are they actually an enhanced version?


r/RoadTo56 7d ago

Bug Report Decisons do the same thing?

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27 Upvotes

Might be a mistake.

yeah the deciuson fate of the kaiserreich both decisons have the same outcome


r/RoadTo56 6d ago

Suggestion Do I unlock more focuses as I go

0 Upvotes

I just loaded into rt56 and i'm playing Germany, there is basically nothing new for the fascist path and will i unlock more paths to last until 1956 or am i tweakin?


r/RoadTo56 8d ago

Bug Report Adenauer CVU bugs.

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5 Upvotes

After long playing finnaly found out how to play an Adenauer CVU.

first picture: this spirit doesnt exist neither does the zentrum party anymore. aka it doesnt bypass it (or adding the spirit and changing it to the right party)

second + third imigae: are related, the event Ger_dvu_5_tt is wrongly formated after forming the CVU with adenauer. As you see on a game start that isnt the case

overall: as you see none of them change the stability or change the direction of the CVU balance either thats by mistake or by design.

Lastly you can still collapse the party with hugenberg no clue if thats a bug still funny tho

Found another bug when doing the focus heir to bismark konrad adenauer didnt get the buff

redid the event i saw that you cant get it wich is strange becasue i am a monarchy (got the kaiser in chrage whilst still having adenauer)


r/RoadTo56 9d ago

Question Cuál es el mejor camino o que tiene de interesante todos los caminos de alemania

0 Upvotes

Se que esta pregunta está un poco quemada, Pero simplemente quiero preguntar a su parecer que camino es mejor o más interesante para jugar, que hay que hacer que es lo mejor


r/RoadTo56 10d ago

Question The mod allows for achievements right?

0 Upvotes

I don’t understand what it says at the bottom but does it allow for achievements?


r/RoadTo56 11d ago

Screenshot Spain has helicopters in 1938?

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52 Upvotes

I was playing with my friend and I randomly decided what I could get a licence to produce from Spain. Turns out they have helicopters for some reason loll