Black ICE Version 8.2 Patch file

podcat's TFH exe ?

The SA ? You get a few militia units, however the SA no longer existed as combat units by by 1938. The SA men were absorbed into the Wehrmacht. If you mean SS, then yes you will get things like SS assault guns. All the Wehrmacht units can be built in an SS version. You have to choose to allow SS in your game. Either ahsitrocial choice ( which lets you build SS from game startas you unlock various units) or historical choice which gives you the correct OOBs and in August 1940 an you will get a choice to expand the SS with the Himmler Waffen SS HQ activation. From this point on you can build more SS unit.

which nations do you want to add ?

delete the logs folder in blackice folder in user/documents. Make sure its the blackice folder. The save game CTD issue is unique to each computer. some people have it, many don't. So its hard to pinpoint as everyone seems to be different. The logs is created by the game every time you start. Deleting the old one seems to help most people.

it depends. It is different for each computer. Some people don't need to delete the logs at all. Others can do it once and save as normal for the rest of the game. Others need to delete it before starting each game. Some few it makes no difference and they need to find another way to fix their issue.

this should work
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if you are losing base manpower it must be due to losing provinces. You might also have nasty levels of revolt risk in your manpower rich provinces.

22% will lower manpower in all those provinces significantly. NKVD work perfectly for revolt risk suppression. However it will take some time to lower it from 22%. The revolt risk is recalculated every month. You might take 6 months to lower it. You always need to protect your resource rich provinces in BICE. This is why the soviets have so many NKVD in their starting OOB and later by event. Every province with resources/ manpower and along important supply lines will benefit from a strong suppression unit. The USSR is one of the more difficult nations to play in this regard due to the territory which needs to be covered.

the USSR won't have a problem with IC as you have a long period of time to build up your IC. IC is the least of your concerns. In fact the only major issue is your leadership and officer ratio. You have to try and strike a balance between officer ratio and tech levels. The easy thing to do when the germans invade is to pull back your land forces further into Russia. You only really have to hold out until the autumn mud begins in Spetmeber/October. Convert as much of your infantry to mobile units, and light armor to medium armor. The soviets have an advantage in armor value over the bulk of german units. your tanks can do a lot of damage to the german infantry formations. Focus your techs on the coming land war. armor value and armor piercing are crucial.

the installer is the file you download. Place it in the HOI3 main directory ( alongside all the game exe) Run the mod installer by double click. Make sure you also have podcat's TFH exe overwriting the existing TFH exe. You need to register hoi3 and TFH on the paradox forum to access it

its a historical mod, however its still possible to deviate from history to an extent. The catch is the more you deviate from history the more things will not work or make sense and at worse break the mod.

I think you are playing an old version. Most of those issues are fixed in version 8.2

the Rhineland issue is fixed in 8.3
17 and 18 Pz divisions should already be fixed in 8.2
not sure about the lithunian units ? Which ones are you talking about ?

not sure what you mean by "install proper government" ?

the save game CTD issue is related to how your computer generates the logs.txt file. Its unqieue to every computer and each time you load the game. this makes it very difficult to fix as no logs are the same. Only some people have the save game problem and no idea why they do. The first thing you can do is delete the logs folder from blackice in user/documents. make sure its the blackice logs. If that doesn't work there is a thread on the paradox forum with various solutions people have found. Most people find a solution. Forum.paradoxplaza.com
if you are on of the unlucky few where nothing works you can roll back to an earlier version of the mod such as 7.4

choosing historical SS divisions will trigger a decision which places an OOB of the intial SS combat formations.

no one else has reported this issue. What is your checksum ? which version are you playing. What is the specific random province ? Which units ? We didn't have any issues with the invasion of france, not has anyone else reported this, so its difficult to know what is occurring in your game without more info

there is a problem with some of those French coastal provinces. You will notice they lack the ports on the map ( whilst the province history file is fine). There was some sort of interface/ positioning issue which we have since fixed for the next update. This was making the ports vanish from the map in some provinces. However i wasn't aware that this would cause a CTD ( you are the first to report it) however its likely the port positioning issue is the culprit.

8.3 is out on the paradox forum. will upload here today

you would have to ask gamer_1745. Its a sub mod for BICE, so its separate.

do you have podcat's TFH exe ?

how much ram do you have ? do you have a 32bit or 64 bit system ?

you should have no problems. I just finished a play through to November 1945 without a single CTD. Lots of save game restarts to check over different nations. No crashes at any point. My system is the same as yours.