Starfire Historical Mod Change Log by File
Version C8

This is a list of all the changes made for the current version of the Starfire Historical Mod (Note: I've become lazy and not all changes are documented here).

db\misc.txt - this contains a number of key variables to make major modifications fairly easily.

db\difficulty.csv - this file allows us to handicap specific alliances and human players

db\units\modifiers.csv - combat modifiers for terrain and weather

config\buttons.txt - maps keyboard hot keys

db\building_costs.txt - province improvements

map\Terraintypes.csv - movement rate modifiers for terrain

db\resource_values.csv - "ai values for the resources"

Province.csv

The B4 release has had some fixes but could use significantly more work.

All additional IC from INC files moved to Province.csv.

• Argentina - rare materials increased to reflect large export trade of wool and beef
• Brazil - coal increased to reflect historical coal resources
• China - Nationalist China resources tweaked to avoid poor AI trade logic
• Czechoslovakia - some terrain corrected
• Denmark - manpower reduced; rare materials increased to represent agriculture and avoid meltdown effects.
• Finland - given metal in Petsamo to reflect nickel deposits
• Hungary - hacked quickly to reflect extensive bauxite deposits to stabilize Hungarian economy more
• Italy - "rare materials" put in Rimini (actually Ravenna?) as a quick hack to represent mercury deposits.
• Switzerland - 2 points of rare materials added to help minimize economy meltdown.
• USA "rare" adjusted - a few infrastructure improvements
• USSR some infrastructure improvements

Unit Files

For B1 all land org values increased by 10

brigades - speed penalties removed (there is no logical reason why an attached brigade would slow down a division. Engineer speed boost reduced to 0.5. Heavy Armor Brigade softness adjustment reduced by 5.

armor.txt - softness reduced to 27; ten days added to build time to increase cost. Light Armor Brigade no longer allowed as attachment. For C1 Armor defense and toughness adjusted (armor losses were horrible on defence because of the inability to recover and repair damaged or broken tanks), soft attack increased to put more "blitz" into "blitzkrieg".

cavalry.txt - speed reduced to 6

garrison.txt - manpower reduced to 9

hq.txt - manpower increased to 11

Infantry.txt - heavy armor brigade allowed; org increased to 33

light_armor.txt - softness increased to 33

motorized.txt - speed increased to 10

paratrooper.txt - modified to make "divisions" represent "Brigade/Regiment" sized units (i.e. 40% of division size); manpower cut from 15 to 4; cost reduced from 12 to 5; hard attack cut to 1 except for Advanced (HA-2); Soft Attack reduced to 3/4/5/6; morale and org raise to 50; suppression cut to 1; air attack cut to 1 (except advanced is 2); supply consumption cut to reflect smaller unit size but also remains significantly higher than base infantry to reflect well supplied elite troops.

transport_plane.txt - reduced cost and increased production time to reflect need for fewer aircraft for the new adjusted paratrooper "division" size. This makes players plan ahead a bit more and still requires a significant investment to build an air transport fleet capable of moving a decent sized airborne (paratrooper) force. This should also improve "air supply" (partially reflecting that bombers were also used for air supply lifts). Reduced range to 500 km (was too easy to conduct a paradrop of England from the heart of Germany!)

Naval Bombers - due to comments that massive usage of naval bombers is too powerful our values have been adjusted. Naval attack ratings have been cut 25% so they aren't as lethal; surface and air defense ratings have been cut 25% so they are more vulnerable; cost has been cut 10% to maintain reasonable "value".

Country Files

All INC files now get ground_def_eff = 0.97 and extra_tc equal to half their IC.

1936\czh_36.inc

• Some terrain corrected

1936\denmark.inc

• Manpower reduced from 3 to 1 (they never raised more than 6,000 men)

1936\ethiopia.inc

• Strength of units reduced to more historic levels
• Manpower reserves cut to be more historic

1936\finland.inc

• extra_tc = 10

1936\france.inc

• Maginot line adjusted for more historically accurate figures
• interventionism changed from 8 to 5 (France wasn't that eager to get into another war!)
• professional army changed from 5 to 3 (France had fairly short required duty, which lead to poor training)

1936\germany.inc

• oil = 501 (avoid immediate conversion)
• professional_army moved from 5 to 9 (almost fully "standing"/professional)
• Four divisions switched to 1918 (representing some of the third line units)
• Manpower cut from 850 to 50

1936\italy.inc

• oilpools in colony provinces removed and put into main depot to avoid stupid problem of Italy selling oil!

1938\ita38.inc

• free_market changed from 7 to 4 (reflecting corrupt Italian military contracting, they developed good tech but couldn't implement it)

1936\japan.inc

• oilpools in colony provinces removed and put into main depot to avoid stupid problem of Japan selling oil!

1938\sov38.inc

• professional_army moved from 3 to 1 (fully drafted)
• peacetime_ic_mod = 0.95 added (removed for B1)
• research_mod = 0.95 added
• tc_mod = 0.9 added
• cash cut from 100 to 5
• moved one point toward isolationism (3 instead of 4) to reflect historical situation and reduce opportunity for unrealistic Soviet aggression.

1938\usa38.inc

• removed tech 5060 Improved Machine Tools for a more historically accurate economy

Event Files

starfiretimer.txt

This has been removed for B1

id = 2290001 thru 2290005 "Restore Resource Production" this adds back in resources that were taken away from Province.csv to adjust resource extraction for pre-war peacetime.

• Lubbock (721) +151 Oil
• Maracaibo (804) +109 Oil
• Monroe (682) +61 Oil
• Baku (1907) +57 Oil
• Sunderland (11) +133 Energy
• Stalino (249) +96 Energy
• Dortmund (76) +93 Energy
• Zaporozhye (246) +79 Energy
• Leipzig (310) +78 Energy

hoi2.txt:

id = 56 "USA Gears Up For War"

• Removed the IC construction in province 1277 (Tianshui - China!)
• increased the offset from 5 to 10 (check half as often)
• peacetime IC mod reduced from 25 to 10

id = 57 "USA Gears Up For War"

• Removed the IC construction in province 1277 (Tianshui - China!)
• increased the offset from 5 to 10 (check half as often)
• peacetime IC mod reduced from 25 to 10

id = 58 "USA Gears Up For War"

• Removed the IC construction in province 1277 (Tianshui - China!)
• Moved the start checking date to 1937
• peacetime IC mod reduced from 25 to 10

germany.txt

id = 2000 (human only event) & 2060 (AI only) "Occupation of Rhineland"

• manpower pool gain reduced from 50 to 5

id = 2003 "Treaty of Munich"

• manpower pool gain reduced from 100 to 10

id = 2009 "Claim Memel"

• manpower pool gain reduced from 10 to 2

ussr.txt:

id = 2626 "USSR Receives Lend Lease"

• IC construction in provinces 1416 (Irkutsk), 1552 (Omsk), 1548 (Novosibirsk) reduced from 2 to 1.
• Added command "extra_tc" value = 15

id = 2627 "End of Winter War"

• ground_def_eff gain adjusted to be in line with Starfire values

id = 2633 "Moving Industry to Siberia"

• This event was bugged because the original cities lack enough industry to move. Hence the Soviets would gain massive amounts of industry in the original version.
• IC moves adjusted
• removed the domestic free market slider adjustment
• changed offset from 7 to 10 days; changed start date to 1937
• removed "attack = " trigger because it doesn't work (bug)

id = 2634 "Moving Industry to Siberia"

• IC moves adjusted
• changed offset from 7 to 10 days; changed start date to 1937
• removed "attack = " trigger because it doesn't work (bug)

id = 2635 "Moving Industry to Siberia"

• IC gain in 1422 Alma-Ata reduced from 7 to 1 (no change in IC for moving the industry)
• changed offset from 7 to 10 days; changed start date to 1937
• removed "attack = " trigger because it doesn't work (bug)

id = 2651, 2652, 2653, 2654 "USSR gaining ground_def_eff"

• apply to both AI and human
• adjusted values to work with Starfire ground_def_eff values
• tuned to not be quite so dramatic
• occur in November not May

id = 2655 "Great Patriotic War"

• removed under_attack trigger because it doesn't work (Paradox bug)

Techs

industry_tech.txt

• Tech 5090 Improved Construction Engineering - fort (coastal and land) production modifier cut from 50 to 20
• Tech 5100 Advanced Construction Engineering - fort (coastal and land) production modifier cut from 50 to 20

AI Files

B5 - significant changes for National Spain and USA due to Paradox stock version lacking most variables for 1938
B3 - Soviet AI files have increased strategic redeployment thresholds

Note: for B1 all AI files are as provided by Paradox v1.2

ita_1936.ai

• Lowered neutrality to 125
• construction max_factor reduced to 10%
• max_AA_level reduced to 6
• ic_at_war set to no - Italy is resource poor no point to building IC
• force_ic_until = 1936
• ic_end_year = 1936
• max_batch_war = 270
• cut brigade build percentages
• max_front_ratio vs ETH set to 3.5
• recklessness raised to 2
• base_attack_odds lowered to 1.4
• min_attack_odds lowered to 1.1
• To do: Need to reduce Italy's fear of attacking mountains (stalling in Ethiopia)
• To do: don't garrison Assab 1038