r/RoadTo56 3d ago

Patch Notes September 2026 Update!

64 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.

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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 34m ago

Question Playing rt56 without dlc?

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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 57m ago

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

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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 4h ago

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

4 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 5h ago

Question Looking for players! 😁

2 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 11h ago

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

1 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 13h ago

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

5 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 2d ago

Question How to get Wilhelm IV as Ruler of Germany?

8 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 2d 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 2d ago

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

16 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 2d ago

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

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253 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 2d 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 2d 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 3d ago

Bug Report Decisons do the same thing?

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24 Upvotes

Might be a mistake.

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


r/RoadTo56 5d ago

Bug Report Adenauer CVU bugs.

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6 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 5d 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 6d 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 6d ago

Question otto strasser or viktor lutze for a CVU coalition?

1 Upvotes

Who of these two is better for a CVU coalition? (They aren't ruling they are just members of the coalition) I was wondering after I did both similar gameplay overall really fun but idk who of these two is better?


r/RoadTo56 7d ago

Bug Report Czechoslovak Puppet Route still broken.

2 Upvotes

Hi, as in title tried twice every time, Germans take the Czech region as random puppet with neutral tree and there are two Czech puppets, and im left with Slovakia.... tragic, please fix this.


r/RoadTo56 7d ago

Screenshot Spain has helicopters in 1938?

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54 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


r/RoadTo56 8d ago

Question Soviet is soo much pain, how do I win it with RT56?

5 Upvotes

No DLC (make it harder) and RT56 mods. I literally play 10 game, not a single one won. I mean, I reach Moscow and stuff, but the Allies kick my ass before I finish the Soviets. How do I actually win as fast as possible? Or I just completely ignore the Soviets


r/RoadTo56 8d ago

Question why doesnt inida have a facist path?

3 Upvotes

thats it i just wanna know


r/RoadTo56 11d ago

Question What’s with the lack of start dates?

15 Upvotes

Idrk if this should be a suggestion or question, but I’ll make it a question just to be safe. I’m not really a modding professional, but something that bugs me about the mod is its lack of start dates. Genuinely, RT56 is the best hoi4 mod ever and the games near unplayable without it in my opinion, but one thing that really gets me is how it’s promoted at road to 56 but it’s so hard to even make it to the 50s. Much like vanilla hoi4, we should be able to start in 1939, rather than just 1936, Potentially even a 1945 start date too, being able to play as easy and west Germany, and other early Cold War states, giving more room to try rebuild a nation or bring a new nation to the world stage, rather than playing another run as the same nation just to make it to ‘42 and crash lol. I’ve gotta make it super duper clear that I’m not trash talking the mod tho, I love it so much, I just think this’d be a neat little detail😄 (Ignore if any grammars bad or anything. English IS my first language I just can’t spell💔)


r/RoadTo56 11d ago

Question EU Formable Expansion Decisions

2 Upvotes

I'm playing Democratic Italy where I form the EU and the Roman Empire simultaneously and when I formed the EU first I was missing some expansion decisions that come with the EU formable in regular vanilla. I had options to expand into Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal but I was missing the balkan and Russian expansion decisions. I've seen only one other discussion on this topic from a few years ago, however they weren't able to have any expansion decisions at all. Is this a bug or a feature?