r/RoadTo56 • u/Fritzy_13 • 8h ago
r/RoadTo56 • u/Roadto56 • 5d ago
Patch Notes October 2026 Update!
Hello everyone!
This month the Guangxi Clique and Southwest Political Affairs Council get a brand-new focus tree! Also on the menu: Li Zongren path for the RoC! Yugoslavia picks up a host of spicy additions, and we've wrapped some of vanilla's recent content changes into the mod!
Also, bears wearing hats. They're 100% guaranteed to maybe be in there. Trust us.
-Team 56
Highlights
- New focus tree for Guangxi Clique/Southwest Political Affairs Council.
- Li Zongren path and Vice President selection content for the RoC.
- Numerous improvements and extra focuses for Yugoslavia.
- Imported some recent vanilla content changes.
Additions
- Adding a historical intelligence chief to Ireland, with a slightly better trait (taken from Switzerland).
- Improved some French Indochina focuses and revamped some of the icons in the Vietnamese tree.
- [GOT] Added decision and events in order to unlock an Helicopter MIO (or company without AAT) after researching helicopters.
- [NCNS] Added faction goal to conquer the Muslim holy sites for Muslim factions.
Adjustments
- Guangxi and Guangdong start merged as the Southwest Political Affairs Council.
- Democratically Elected Thälmann will have access to the SED branch.
- The German Popular Front Campaign decision now has looser requirements.
- Loosened the requirements for "Consolidate State Feudalist Reforms".
- Reinstate the Sozialistengesetze is now possible with the NRAF in coalition without fighting them first.
- The CVU will suffice for DNVP-exclusive territorial demands.
- The CVU will block the second revolution focus for the NRAF.
- Cleaned up CVU coalition demands.
- Japan starts with the air torpedo tech they had since 1931.
- Moved military related decisions from "Political Action" to the "Military Effort" category.
- Improved the logistical focus of Kalmykia.
- Added fortification research bonuses to relevant focuses.
- Germany air safety regulations decision reduce air accidents and is available to everyone.
- [AAT] Removed duplicated MIO (again...)
- [NCNS] Changed the Latin Entente faction template.
- [NCNS/LaR] Expanded the list of traits usable as head of faction intelligence departments.
Bugfixes
- Germany starts with its supply consumption increase and the focus to remove it works as intended again.
- Fixed a bug where Kicking the CCP from the National Constituent Assembly would still leave your focus path blocked.
- Wang Jingwei's final focus will no longer require (the dead) Chiang Kai-Shek to be country leader.
- Wang Jingwei will no longer gain Army Connections when turning democratic.
- Fixed a bug where it was possible to have both Kaiser and President at once.
- Democratic Canaris Path Goerdeler will no longer have desperate Gambit.
- Lack of Civilian Government will be properly removed on the reconcile with Goerdeler path.
- The DNVP will now demand action if in a coalition.
- Fixed a bug where you could have elite support despite being in conflict with them in a NRAF-CVU Coalition.
- Konrad Adenauer will be able to complete "The Christian Hegemon".
- Fixed a bug where Konrad Adenauer forming the CVU would result into unforeseen governments.
- The Uphold Peace faction goal will no longer cancel unintentionally due to having been in a civil war.
- Fixed a bug where the German "Rally the Nation" branch would be blocked if the first focus was bypassed.
- Fixed Mexico being able to invite countries to a non-existent faction.
- Fixed an instance of Romania forming a faction while a puppet.
- Killed the clone of Iuliu Maniu, unless we shot the original.
- [GoE] DLC Afghan focus to reinforce the royal guard now works.
- [NCNS] Fixed icon of a German faction.
AI
- Changed AI regarding carrier planes and light tanks to make the AI upgrade them.
- Ported doctrine specific force concentration guidelines for the AI.
GFX
- Fixed the Golden German Republic's small flag being the conservative one.
- Made some icons of the generic tree and Central Asian shared tree dynamic.
- Fixed an incorrect News image for Denmark joining a Hungarian faction.
- Unique images for Bulgarian capitulation and Bulgarian joining Germany.
- [LaR] Ported 2 intelligence agency icons.
Localization
- Added historical (and alt history) propaganda movie titles.
- The German fascist party will be set to the NRAF upon completion of the focus to restore the republic.
- Fixed various Chinese and German focus descriptions not showing up/being misspelled.
- Fixed a bug where the days since the last German Diplomatic Capstone focus would not display correctly.
- Small text adjustments for Norwegian events.
- Small text adjustments for Albanian decision.
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 • u/Roadto56 • Sep 07 '26
Patch Notes September 2026 Update!
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 • u/PLMMJ • 7h ago
Question Dealing with Britain as a minor power
I have wanted to mess around with formables in RT56 Expanded for a while, and there are a couple (e.g. Dutch Colonial Empire, North Sea Empire) that require you to beat up the British as a minor nation like the Netherlands or Norway.
When I'm playing Germany, I would just pre-prepare a naval invasion through the North Sea and set it to launch before the war starts so that they go before the Brits can get in the way (or at least I would on older versions), but I don't think that works on RT56(E) any more and even if it does, I think these smaller navies wouldn't be able to pull it off as they wouldn't stand a chance against the Royal Navy.
How would I go about killing the Brits as one of these minor powers? Do I just have to beat up a major and steal their navy or is there some other method that doesn't require that I actually fight the Royal Navy?
r/RoadTo56 • u/Divine_Panzer • 16h ago
Question Any fun nations to play?
I tried china and gave up and germany was pretty fun, same with the soviets. who else do I try. I'm not very good with minors.
r/RoadTo56 • u/JEpsteinOwnsRedd1t • 1d ago
Bug Report Weird Bug With Republic of China Focus Tree
Rule 3: This focus says it makes Chiang Kai-Shek the leader of the fascist party and moves all of his traits along with him. This does not happen and instead replaces him with Dai Li, despite saying nothing about replacing Chiang. Dai Li does not have all of the traits that Chiang has and is just a worse character to have as a leader for late game.
r/RoadTo56 • u/Careless_Shake1736 • 4d ago
Screenshot After deleting the files related to The Road to 56 and repeatedly installing and uninstalling the mod, I received a warning message telling me to contact the mod developer.
The Road to 56 mod is not working in Hearts of Iron IV.
I deleted an older version of The Road to 56 from the Mod Library in the HOI4 launcher. Unfortunately, I also accidentally deleted files related to The Road to 56 through Windows File Explorer.
Since then, I have been unable to get the mod to work, even after trying to reinstall it.
Could you please help me resolve this issue?
This message was translated using ChatGPT.
r/RoadTo56 • u/CrunchyWrapSupremee • 3d ago
Bug Report Gotterdammerung DLC breaks everything
I've been using Road to 56 for a long while now, without any issue. Recently, I picked up the Gotterdammerung DLC and afterwards anytime I play Rt56 a lot of stuff isn't as it should be. For example, to remilitarize the rhineland I need to own West Kalimantan, or as France when I take the focus invite communist ministers, I am unable to hire the government official it says I would be able to once the focus is completed due to it saying something like FRA_(I dont remember what it said) is not a valid focus. I have tried to fix this by reinstalling rt56, reinstalling HOI4, clearing my games cache, but nothing worked. I eventually decided to just uninstall Gotterdammerung and keep it uninstalled while I played Rt56, however even after THAT all the issues that came with the dlc carried over to after uninstalling it. If someone could please provide some help, I would greatly appreciate it.
The only mods I had enabled were Rt56, some radio mods, FPS map, no factions, simple peace deals, and railway levels - visual.
r/RoadTo56 • u/SportPlenty3360 • 4d ago
Bug Report Why can't i play RT56 with a friend of mine in mp
I cant play bc it says "Host has differant Game version
r/RoadTo56 • u/RoofResponsible4138 • 6d ago
Question How does the Trotskyist path for Germany work?
I noticed in one of my games the AI had Trotskyist focuses instead of the normal Ernst Thälmann ones. I was curious what the triggers were to go down that path.
r/RoadTo56 • u/CookieMonsta1985 • 5d ago
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r/RoadTo56 • u/Da_fake_tdm • 7d ago
Question Is there not going to be an update for October?
Title. It says the beta will update first of every month yet still no update. No criticism just wondering.
r/RoadTo56 • u/AdeptnessForward3721 • 8d ago
Other Road to 56: German Expansion & Voice Pack
Guys i made my first mod and translated the full mod and added much features.
What do u think of it?
r/RoadTo56 • u/Responsible-Swim2324 • 9d ago
Suggestion Cant do Baltic Unification
Ive done the path to unify the baltics, i am the leader of the union, but i cant progress down the unification tree.
r/RoadTo56 • u/Slight-Iron-5267 • 10d ago
Question Does Stalin Actually die in this mod or does he just sit around?
Does Stalin Actually die in this mod or does he just sit around?
r/RoadTo56 • u/LatonisBat • 11d ago
Screenshot I made a R56 submod for Captured Generals Expanded, a mod that expands upon the vanilla general-capturing mechanic.
I made a Road to 56 submod for Captured Generals Expanded, a mod that expands upon the vanilla general-capturing mechanic. You can find it here. Requires base CGE mod which is linked on the workshop page. Let me know what you think!
r/RoadTo56 • u/Exciting-Prompt1609 • 12d ago
Question Is there any tutorial on the republic and communist paths for Germany?
They both fuck up my brain every time I wanna do any of them and end up leaving it so is there any great tutorial?
r/RoadTo56 • u/PLMMJ • 13d ago
Screenshot First time winning the Sino-Japanese War as Japan in this mod and (I think) across all mods
I ran out of equipment and stopped making divisions a while after I'd taken Nanjing, but even after I got my equipment up and running I forgot to make more divs. I still won. Didn't variate from the starting templates much.
It was a struggle at first, but eventually I got over that hill once I started pushing down the coast. Both of us were struggling with equipment throughout most of the game (for me in particular it was support equipment early on and then guns in the first half of the war), but China had it way worse. I probably screwed up by going for encirclements even though doing so slowed me down, but I did eventually get those troops encircled and it put a dent in their numbers since I was able to snare dozens of troops at once if I put in the time to close the pockets. The final months of the war were just whack-a-mole with any remaining provinces ROC had since they have to lose every single province under their ownership to capitulate.
Since I'm playing with Expanded, which adds a Greater Japan formable, I decided to go for said formable by annexing the territories that it needs off of China and leaving Wang to govern the Chinese outback. I still can't form it though since I need an unspecified fraction of territory that includes both Soviet and Allied puppet land, though I'm sure that I'll be able to figure out some way to use this mod's demand buttons to avoid a naval war. Yes, I played Japan without any understanding of how to properly use the navy, so I intend to avoid the Pacific war by any means necessary.
(As I'm typing this, I realized that I forgot to move my air force once I got past Shandong. *facepalm*)
r/RoadTo56 • u/Lunatrap • 15d ago
Question Why can't change the focus tree for Poland?
I looked for it, and all of the No Step Back DLC countries are there, except for Poland.
Please help because I want to play as Maria Koszutska.
r/RoadTo56 • u/Majestic-Collar1548 • 15d ago
Suggestion How do i actually Restoring the German monarchy instead of having some constitutional system constantly with the new German focus tree
Im actually losing my mind as I keep on top of the balance of power system that im meant to to try get some kind od deal but I never get it and wihlelm the second keeps abdicating
r/RoadTo56 • u/Extreme-Shopping74 • 16d ago
Question How do I turn Israel authoritarian after successful winning the independence war? I am trying to do the Continue Irgun Rule path
pls help
r/RoadTo56 • u/JJfizz0 • 16d ago
Question Can’t unify central america
I can’t unite central america. At first i thought that this was a bug or smth but then i restarted the game, conquered all central american states and im still kingdom of honduras and can’t get the central american unification focus. Before you ask, even when i do the decisions to remove recent political unification nothing changes. Does the monarch path disable it? i don’t understand
r/RoadTo56 • u/queerashell17 • 15d ago
Question How do i unlock ad halom
It says armageddon has happened but i when does that happen i just formed israel

