BLACK I.C.E. is an extensive mod of HOI3 under development by Panzeroo and many other members of the Hearts Of Iron 3 forum.
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Black ICE 8.2 is out! Checksum: LXUG This update cumulative which means it includes the 8.1 patch. You do not need 8.1 to install this. You do however need the 8.0 release to be installed. Enjoy!
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what checksum do you have ? Apart from the save game CTD issues some people have version 8 is fairly stable.
How do I check that?
Now that the war has started the crashes have increased to every couple of days making this unplayable for me.
I tried reinstalling everything from scratch, hoi3, the LAA hoi3_tfh.exe, and then blackice 8.3. No improvement, I suppose if things are running well with others it must be my system.
how much ram do you have ? do you have a 32bit or 64 bit system ?
Win 10-64 with 8gb.
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.
I ran a ram check on my system thinking that might be it, but nothing.
The only other thing I can think of is that the hoi3_tfh.exe link in the Paradox forum is dead, and I had to scrounge up the LAA version from a link on reddit to mediafire.
Also, my HOI3 is from Steam if that makes any difference.
Thanks for all the help with this, the amount I played was amazing, feels like a whole new game - for the better. If I can finally get this running, I may end up losing a portion of my life lol
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I wanna let control of research to AI but everytime AI decreases my unit sizes via tech. Is there any way to exclude division size decrease technology tree?.
which version are you playing ? The AI will ignore those techs in the latest version. Otherwise when you are letting the AI control your research you will need to remove them from the research queue if the AI chooses them for you.
Using 8.3 and they do not ignore. Whenever removed them from queue, AI again starting to research. Suddenly my huge nation losing almost every battle because of this. If wanna check give a nation division_size_increase techs at maximum and try yourself.
Hi i have a question about yearly national focus event as USA (I've played only USA so far): when it pops up, it let me choose US Economy, Us Navy ect.. Then I have to choose if build new power-ups or boost the existing ones. Now when I want to build new ones it's normal the the game wants to build some new ones and remove others I build the year before or existing from the beginning. For example when I want to build heavy industry it says +1 heavy industry in New York and Philadelphia and -1 heavy industry in Chicago??
its a tooltip bug. If you check afterwards it won't have removed the factories. Unfortunately the tooltips are hardcoded so we can't change them.
Need help, I am pretty sure i installed correctly by my checksum says SZIU. What do i do?
manually removed all the blackice files. manually delete the blackice folder in TFH/mods. the mod launcher, and the black ice folder in user/documents. Then reinstall 8.0 and 8.2.
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Hello i was wondering if you could answer two questions for me?
Besides the tech are there any other requirements for giant infrastructure projects. I know that there's probably money and supplies needed but no decisions appear, no matter how much money or how many supplies i have.
Also i heard its possible to start five year plans as the Soviets that permanently expand your IC (at least in previous versions). I know that there is the event that represents the third five year plan, however that is not the five year plan event chain to which i refer.
Sorry for asking i may have just have missed a line in a change but just wanted to know.
once a year there is an event for the economic boost. You can choose short term gain or long term. Choosing long term allows the giant infra projects to become available.
Hey i was just wondering if theirs a way for you guys to make a Fascist Russia? from my knowledge there is no such thing and i would find it very interesting to see the Russians Fascist and see how that were to go
I have failed to get LXUG regardless of what I do. I keep getting SZUI. I have unistalled BI and deleted all pertinent folders atleast thrice. I have even unistalled the base game to no avail. Anyone else have the same issue?
did you manually delete the BICE folders ? This includes the Blackice folder in user/documents, and the mod.file launcher. Remove them by hand not the auto uninstall option as this can leave behind files.
Where would I be able to get 8.3? Only 8.2 shows up for me here. Thank you
8.3 is out on the paradox BICE forum. 8.4 is coming up soon and will be released here.
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30% CA bonus in 1943 is very very low. In fact 70% is pretty average for 1943. Are you researching the various techs which increase CA bonus for each unit type ? Also if you use a veteran division HQ, or elite div HQ you will have a higher CA bonus.
did not know about the veteran or elite HQ, i probably just messed up the tech for the united states, but i just wanted to confirm it. thank you again for the mod.
The unique div HQ counters are all veteran div HQs for the US. A few such as Airborne/ USMC counters are elite. You can gain more veteran and elite div HQs by researching the division command tech. Each level will trigger an OOB which will include veteran HQs and sometimes, rarely a elite HQ. Veteran div HQs add an extra 5% base CA bonus, the elite HQs add an extra 15% base CA bonus.
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Is eny way to build weapons and tanks factories other than through national focus?
no it would be impossible to balance the buildings this way as the player could spam the factories they want and have crazy build times. the National focus options limit the amount of factories according to the overall economy of the nation. So the player ( and the AI ) need to build up their economy before they can gain larger amounts of factories.
Hi, @Panzeroo can you please give a list of hotkeys for province improvements eg. for building Infras because im using a 1366 X 768 monitor and some elements of the UI doesn't fit.
Thanks.
Is it normal that I stole colonial militia tech from France as Hungary?
its a stealable tech. However until your control certain areas in Africa you won't gain any african militia.
USA have more manpower from events than Soviet Union nice mistake
the soviets also start out with a massive OOB, whereas the US has to build up virtually from scratch.
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This amount per month for ZSRR i think is mistake they have historically more population than USA
difficult to say how valid this is until you start applying various modifiers. The soviets get a lot of campaign and event modifiers as well as whatever difficulty setting is chosen.
Saying that the USA is due for a nerf in some aspects. manpower being one of them.
Is there an ideal air force composition? like should there be 3 or 6 air units in a wing or something? Because 3 air units in a wing is too weak while 6 or 9 units in a wing is also too weak because of stack penalty. Can you please enlighten me on this issue thanks, oh and awesome mod by the way.
6 interceptors and 8 - 9 bombers seem to be the most agreed upon.
Hello, i would like to ask what is and how you can build heavy ind capacity.
I no good english. Sveicieni no Latvijas. xD
economic national focus option. If you have more then 150 IC total and a province with at least 7 IC you will gain a HIC there. The more provinces with 7+ IC the more HIC you can gain per year (up to 5 per year) with the economic focus.
Panzeroo i'm playing as Canada but everytime i start i cant choose the western front difficulty. Can you help please?
Hello. Its very good mod, but i have a "little" problem. I can´t make invasion. Is it a bug or some new feature?
you can't do sea invasions with ocean liners. Use the auxiliary vessels you get from event when war begins, or research and build landing craft and assault ships. Ocean liners/ passenger ships are only for transporting units between ports. keep them out of invasion fleets
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Hello mate.
I have a question regarding province upgrades. Im currently in late 1944 and still unable to build "heavy ind capacity" What im doing wrong? Technology doesnt seem to be a problem, because its well researched.
Same with hospital.. Probably easy to figure out, but looks like im too dumb. :<
economic national focus option. If you have more then 150IC and a province with at least 7 IC you will gain a HIC. The more provinces with at least 7 IC ( up to 5 provinces ) will each grant another HIC. Hospitals have a semi random chance of being built from the health and education national focus ( along with other buildings such as training camps)
Panzeroo in the next version could you please add post ww2 events? Or maybe add new scenarios with post ww2 battles that would be nice or eawhen a battle for kursk. There's also problems with D-Day and Downfall scenarios theres not enough troops and give all the troops to 1 nations so its easier for the player to win!
Could you make more start dates please?
is there a cache? maybe best to put in the description. saves us from fishing through the comments XD
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