r/RoadTo56 15d ago

Patch Notes July 2026 Update!

72 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 Jun 12 '26

Patch Notes 1.19 Hotfix!

68 Upvotes

Greetings!

We've got a hotfix out for Thunder at Our Gates and 1.19! Check out the full notes below!

-Team 56

Highlights

  • Adopted vanilla's country selection screen which will now allow the direct selection of non-map countries like Quebec and Ukraine, which will automatically be released when chosen.
  • [TaoG] Added basic support for the DLC's focus trees, expect bugs with this content while we work through improving support.

Additions

  • Added many new characters and character roles for Siam's Road to 56 focus tree, even for those without DLC.

Adjustments

  • Changed Belgian Congo from Integrated Puppet to Colony to match vanilla.
  • Implemented map changes to accompany the new DLC content and made further improvements of our own.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed a few cases of content from previous DLC pointing to the wrong states, especially in Danish and Czechoslovak content.

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 10h ago

Question My template i use in normal hoi4 weight exceeds thrust, so can anyone give me one for RT56?

0 Upvotes

this is it (germany 1936)


r/RoadTo56 2d ago

Question Shock Troops vs Mountaineers

6 Upvotes

Does anyone know how shock troops compare with mountaineers? And also what the best template for shock troops is?


r/RoadTo56 2d ago

Question Question for AI in road 56

12 Upvotes

So im playing as the Soviets. Doing a default playthrough but i have a feeling that the german AI is stronger. Ive done few playthroughs with the soviets but ive never saw so many division on my border. I think there were at lest 250 just on my border and probably more. I gethered intel on them through my spies and they had 750 divisions in the field. Is the AI in Road to 56 stronger??


r/RoadTo56 4d ago

Question AI building resource mills

5 Upvotes

I noticed in my games that AI doesn't seem to build resource mills since I always find them in heavy resource deficits. Is there a mod that makes them build it when they are low on resources? Right now it just makes the late game unbalanced imo.


r/RoadTo56 5d ago

Screenshot If you enjoy pain, why not play Yunnan?

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27 Upvotes

Yunnan-specific issues:

  • 3 divs that start with no XP and an 8-width infantry template (your only non-colonial neighbor that is about as weak army-wise is Tibet, good luck fighting anyone in China proper)
  • landlocked with no air force
  • 2 research slots (you can get to 3 within 140 days if you rush) and start with no research whatsoever outside of basic guns and uniforms plus the Special Research Division if it's on (the only worse country I can find is the Northwest Bandit Suppression HQ with only the basic guns, and they have 3 research slots)
  • 1 mil / 3 civs, of which 2 are usable, and 40% infrastructure in both of your states
  • in base RT56, the only resource you have is 3 tungsten (if you have the RT56 Expanded submod, you have a good chunk of resources)
  • your only supply hub is your capital hub and your only railroad goes into French Indochina, meaning that supply will be a struggle

Generic warlord national spirits:

  • ROC eats 10% of your industry
  • massive industry and political power nerfs in exchange for at least having less consumer goods,
  • reduced org, recovery rate, entrenchment and massive attack and defense nerfs when fighting ROC
  • halved army xp gain and increased doctrine cost, -10% recruitable pop factor, reduced special forces cap, reduced max planning bonus, massively increased fort build time in exchange for training time down and reduced supply/attrition penalties

The only thing you have going for you is manpower (unless you're playing with Expanded where you have resources). Good luck with that Western Insurrection.

(I don't have any of the DLCs after BBA, so it might be slightly worse or better if you have them all.)


r/RoadTo56 5d ago

Screenshot The tweak to the USA communist path... doesn't mesh well with the rest of it

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241 Upvotes

Someone seems to have forgotten that the USA's communist branch is actually a democratic socialist branch and thus put in a secret police focus with a description acting like the communist USA is totalitarian.


r/RoadTo56 5d ago

Question Will the Naval tech tree changes be brought to R56?

10 Upvotes

I've noticed that R56 hasn't yet updated the naval tech support tree to how it is in vanilla, have they forgotten or is there a balance reason?


r/RoadTo56 5d ago

Question DLCs on or off?

5 Upvotes

Hi we are planning to do a R56 multi tonight I'll be the host and I'll have all the dlcs, I heard that we can choose for countries focus trees between vanilla dlc trees and r56 trees do you know from settings which countries R56 focus tree or the vanilla dlc tree is better so I can adjust them beforehand


r/RoadTo56 6d ago

Bug Report German Ship Captain Portraits (TAOG)

2 Upvotes

When playing as Germany with only Road to 56 enabled, some randomly generated ship captains use Queen Wilhelmina’s civilian portrait instead of a German naval officer portrait.

I have only encountered this as Germany. I tested several other major countries and could not reproduce it.

Troubleshooting already done:

  • Does not happen in vanilla
  • Reproduces with only R56 enabled
  • Tested multiple fresh games
  • Cleared Steam download cache
  • Reinstalled R56
  • Still occurs after the latest R56 update

I traced the incorrect portrait to Wilhelmina, but her character definition appears normal and she is not directly assigned to Germany or the ship captain system. This seems more like a compatibility issue with the new TAOG random ship captain portrait pool.

Screenshot attached.


r/RoadTo56 6d ago

Question Nations to play rt56

10 Upvotes

I’ve won as Germany & us, can’t win as Italy or France & haven’t tried UK or Sov. Recently I’ve been experimenting with minors & prefer facist/monarchist non historical play throughs. Took central & South America on a decent Brazil run then got stomped by allies, had one decent Hungary game but uk joined central powers & refused to hand over Jerusalem so I can’t do blessed by pope. Basically I get stomped as a LARGE minor by any major & am wondering if it is lack of skill/game design/both? If lack of skill, what nations to play to get better? SP only regular difficulty


r/RoadTo56 6d ago

Suggestion Operation Valkyrie for R56

6 Upvotes

I've not done it in years, mostly because a civil war would always start, and I've never done it in R56 and I know theres a focus path for it but im talking about the SS recruitment feature where you either favour the army or the SS and leads to the assassination of the leader. I was wondering if in R56 theres away to do it without a civil war starting just for the role-play aspect to blame the leader for my failed frontline choices


r/RoadTo56 6d ago

Question Why can’t I launch a nuke

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4 Upvotes

I want to launch a nuke on Moscou and have 12 bombs in my possession but I can’t seem to be able to launch them


r/RoadTo56 8d ago

Bug Report Ukraine plane design crash

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47 Upvotes

Game crashes when I open the plane designer. It also says that it's impossible to design a plane because of a missing main armament, but that's simply not true. I have all dlcs except last one.


r/RoadTo56 9d ago

Question Russia offered Baku’s oil while I was going civil war?

3 Upvotes

So I was going the German civil war in non-historical and Russia offered the oil before I started mine would I keep the oil after it?


r/RoadTo56 10d ago

Question Chat am I cooked?

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18 Upvotes

I didn’t put alot into the air forces as I wanted to concentrate in the land warfare until I took Poland but wtf if this France and the uk suddenly decided to make Poland as strong and the is or something and I just can’t make any significant progress from here on, what th do I do mane


r/RoadTo56 11d ago

Bug Report Modern Sonar has wrong time penalty.

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12 Upvotes

Modern sonar has time penalty to 1943 instead of 1944


r/RoadTo56 12d ago

Screenshot Defense is the best offense (Yugoslavia, Rt56)

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25 Upvotes
  • 72 infantry divs
  • all max level forts
  • over 300 CAS
  • +10% defense from Federal Council
  • +10% defense on core territory from Peasant Councils
  • -20% Encirclement penalty from Ideological Loyalty
  • +0.25% weekly war support (in case of enemy air bombing) from Ideological Struggle
  • +2% Manpower from Local Militias
  • +5% Manpower from Desperate Defense
  • +20% Mobilization speed from Reserve Officers
  • And some additional defense and entrechment bonuses from researching tech

r/RoadTo56 13d ago

Question Who’s concerns?

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37 Upvotes

I’m playing the route 56 version, and I get this condition, however heeds Von neurachs concerns are nowhere to be found in the skill tree, am I missing something? Do skill tree points just disappear after certain choices? If so why did this one not disappeared if it’s not available


r/RoadTo56 13d ago

Question China tips

3 Upvotes

does anyone have any tips to play as china?


r/RoadTo56 14d ago

Bug Report finland bug

3 Upvotes

I'm playing as Finland and going down the Nordic Union focus tree. However, when I invite countries to join my faction, they refuse. Countries that turn fascist become democratic again afterward.


r/RoadTo56 16d ago

Bug Report Romanian Peace Bug

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22 Upvotes

For some reason the white peace between Romania and the U.S.S.R. given by the Romanian focus 'Royal Coup' in its historical branch destroys any allied governments in exile and any bonuses/boosts that they got from such. As noted above, I've lost all of the factories from the 'Request Allied Favours' decisions and had my conscription, trade, and economy laws set to the highest available (not what they were pre-capitulation).

Edit: changing 'has_war_together_with' in the event file to 'is_in_faction_with' seems to have fixed it.


r/RoadTo56 17d ago

Bug Report No Bangka Bauxite Export modifier while playing as DEI/Indonesia

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14 Upvotes

While playing as DEI with the default focus tree, I encountered this bug. I think it's caused by the fact that in R56, Riau and South Sumatra are combined into a single state, whereas in the base game they are separate states. Because of this, we can't progress to the next focus.

Edit: Oops sorry, I meant Bangka Belitung and South Sumatra


r/RoadTo56 19d ago

Meme King Carol II of Romania portrait reused for Georgia lol

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38 Upvotes

So I was randomly messing with the rt56 mod, and I set Georgia to be a kingdom and when I looked at the portrait it was Carol. Anybody know why is this? I find it so cool as a romanian.