Blood and Iron Mod

Victoria 2: Heart of Darkness mod |

Blood and Iron is a major overhaul mod for Victoria 2: Heart of Darkness. It's based on NNM and includes various reworked elements from other mods or minimods such as Vickymod, PDM etc. The main focus is on fixing, improving and balancing the game and expanding it with more gameplay mechanics, as well as to make the game more historical and realistic by adding more major and important historical events and nations in a way that it doesn't become too bloated and railroaded, as it also focuses on what-if scenarios and alternate outcomes if the player decides to follow a different path, and to make every country interesting and fun to play by adding more flavor events.

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The first things we take a look at are the map and the flags.

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One of important things for me to do was to correct some issues with the map. When I first started working on the mod as a personal project, I used an old version of HPM's map. It's already a huge improvement compared to vanilla, but I wasn't satisfied with everything, so I started improving it. The Carpathians is a good example to see one of the changes I made.

The Carpathian Mountains in vanilla

The Carpathian Mountains in vanilla


As you can see the vanilla map isn't correct. While the Western Carpathians are somewhat there as hills, half of the Southern Carpathians are just plains.

The Carpathian Mountains in the mod

The Carpathian Mountains in the mod


Here is my edited version. While I'm sure it isn't 100% correct, it's already much better than the vanilla map, and gives a great defensive borders for whoever controls the Carpathian Basin.

Improving some province shapes and regions of course are more important than terrain changes. Let's stay in Transylvania for another example.

Transylvania regions in the mod

Transylvania


I changed the regions to Northern and Southern Transylvania to represent the 2nd Vienna Award borders, and also reshaped Banat to follow the Mures river.

The flags in vanilla arent's always correct (especially not the colors) and not in the best quality, so first I intergrated the ones I liked from the Alternative Flag Pack. Then of course I also made and corrected some myself, here are some examples:

Better quality Sardinia-Piedmont flag - Sardinia-Piedmont

Correct flag for Abyssinia - Abyssinia

Iberian flag with improved colors - Iberian flag with improved colors

Correct flag for Rhodesia - Corrected Rhodesian flag

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