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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HOTFIX 6.24 released as an installer. Fixes German infantry model level bugs, reduces the T 34 tech event bonus, Pz 3 Div spam, adds Pz Div 16 event OOB, and an event where the forts in Singapore are lowered if Japan takes the Malaysian peninsula + some other minor bug fixes. Combines all the hotfixes from 6.22 to this point as an installer program. Place the Hotfix installer in the main directory and run the launcher the same as you did with 6.2
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is this save game compatible ?
yes
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low res version?
There is no low res version. The guy who worked on this isn't making it anymore. So unless someone else creates a low res sub mod you will need a better screen.
Hello, I love this mod very much, but i got a problem with research. When i go to the "Armour" research tab, the "Advanced armour technologies" and "Advanced engine technologies" are missing. This also happens with "Armour plating technologies". Is it a glitch or I didn't research something? Good luck with the later developing!
either you have old BICE files conflicting with the new version or you are playing a custom game start where many techs will not work correctly. Each new version of the mod requires all the old BICE files to be removed. This includes the BICE.exe launchers.
i cant get the first armor tech, infantry support tank. to work in either custom or historical start.
delete ALL the BICE files manually, including the launchers and reinstall.
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I put the installer in the man directory of o hoi3 the installer runs just fine. However, when I click to launch when the installer is done it says that I am missing a panzeroo.exe file. What am I missing?
you have installed 6.2 and then the 6.24 hotfix ?
thanks guys for the hard work. i just wondering why when i played as nationalist china the game tends to CTD when autosave. and its hard to defend from communist china.
but in another session, communist china just stop attacking me but i dont get sino-german cooperation event ? is it normal ?
are you using podcat's TFH exe ?
The Sino-German trade requires Germany to have enough Supplies in stock to do the trade. If not the trade deal will not trigger for that month and will check again next month.
yes i am using that, when i played as italy it showed no problem only it is so hard against abbysinia... i mean i used mountain troops and they defend with militia and they defense up to 400 percent :(. takes a lot of soldiers too. generally i need about 3 times more that their troops to attack them.
and the CTD when playing Nat. China usually happens at the first autosave resulting the autosave file has compression error afterward. oh, i dont get the event even when the japs attack me :).
oh what is the checksum for this update ?
thanks for the quick reply
reported checksum for 6.24 is NNGM
Militia in mountains ( and jungles/swamps) will always be very hard to dislodge. History is full of examples of militia holding out for years against much more powerful forces. Afghanistan is a good example.
The CTD could be related to starting the game via the panzeroo.exe. This has been reported to cause save game compression errors for some reason. Try launching the mod via the normal launcher and ticking the Black ICE mod box.
Thank you panzeroo. i indeed started it from panzeroo. will try normal launcher. :).
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Why is it my checksum never are the same as yours i have downloaded all the dlc's and versions and patches and reinstalled the latest two black ice and STILL get checksum of "OKPU"
Well i managed atleast now after LOTS of micromanagement of files get the checksum to NNGM :) Hooray for me. I still cant get the fix for the exe though. Well that sucks.
Hey Panzeroo, there's a strange problem I have with Republican Spain.
Well Nationalist Spain had taken all of Spain and Spanish North Africa but there is continued resistance in the capital for over a year. I already received an event which said Madrid was devastated. I am playing as Germany and it already had passed April of 1939, I don't know how all these 60+ days dug-in, well experienced, city garrisoned and numerous troops could be dislodged from a single province by the Nationalist who do nothing but isolate the city.
yes its an old issue and one with out a good answer. The Spainish troops are mainly low quality and very bad at urban assaults. Madrid is a capital city so in game terms it will continue to supply the troops in it even when surrounded and alone. The Nat Spainish cannot defeat the masses of the Rep Spainish ( boosted by all the shattered units which will reform at the theatre HQ ) and so it becomes a long siege until the fighting breaks out into surrounding provinces.
The return of Hong Kong to China event seems not working...Is it just me?
I hawe something to say i was also plaing whit Italy and when i start war whit UK in afrika there is the UK armor corps unit it hawe yelow icon.so that unit is unbeatable it attack and def whit 400-500% i was attacking it whit army of 600k men and i lost..funny is that thay hawe lower moral than mine troops but there moral dont drop,but my is droping wery fast...plz fix that its simply unfair :)
most likely it has better armor value and your piercing isn't high enough. That gives the unit a massive advantage in combat. Once the Afrika Korps arrive you should be better placed to counter it. Funny thing is that this is pretty much what occurred. the entire Italian army of 130,000 men was obliterated with a loss of less then 500 Allied soldiers. En.wikipedia.org
yea i know that i like history..but i look al posbilities about that armor company and mine troops...and it is a little stupid that 1 armor company of 3k men kill almoust 600k men :D maybe you could do some penalty for units that defend against larger scale of enemy :)
again it is probably due to the armor value of the tanks and the low armor piercing level of the Italian units. Having a higher armor value gives a huge combat bonus. That is part of the game mechanics.
well i start new game and use cheat to see is that the problem...again that unit kick *** :) and mine research is on max...
Uh, did you upgrade your units?
Are you using your air support?
Are the stacking penalties too high?
Are you not sending enough anti-tank units?
Are you using shore bombardment?
All contribute greatly to a victory.
But as Italy, I usually led the British attack first all the way to Benghazi than encircle and destroy their forward units by moving through the high infrastructure coast using armoured divisions + air support + air covered shore bombardment. Than I use infantry divisions to mop up the encircled enemy divisions. To deal with enemy armour, I use entire divisions of anti-tank or tank destroyers.
It's difficult to directly attack Egypt in the beginning because the border divisions are dug in from being at war with Germany prior. Also, they have extra territorial pride and training/doctrines/equipment from Britain's higher leadership.
Omg are you fu reading or just playing smart dude...I try evry posibilty and its not posible to defet just that unite...evry other unit is beateble...but that armor corps is not defetable...i attacked it with 600k and loose...i use cheat to see is it problem whit research and research all on max and still i cannot defeat it.i attack just that unit from 3 sides 2x land 1x see and air attack 24/7 and stiil that armor kick mine ***...dont tel me how to play this game im playing it for 3 years and i know all about it.
and one more thing i had 600k men of combined arms..inf.armor.at.aa.inge.art. so i hawe a lot of advantage
organization was 75 like the brit armor had 80...but mine moral drop like secundes..and his organization do not drop...so...see there must be some problem whit that untit...
what is the armor value of the UK armor ? What is the highest armor piercing value in your divisions ? If the UK armor value is higher you will be at a huge disadvantage. Territorial pride will also apply to the UK units in Egypt and this can combine with various events at certain times. However if its the armor causing the problem chances are the armor value is higher then your armor piercing.
panzero dude i understand that but is it not stupit that one unit of 3k man can stop and kill a half of army of 600k men??and lose only 10-15 organization?i mean come on...i know that this is a game but lets be real.. :)
that's the game mechanics. If that tank unit has better armor value, and your units cannot pierce that armor value, the tanks gain a huge advantage. You need better AT guns, or wait for the Afrika Korps.
As German after the hotfix (i had the last) there are no armour tech to rechearch... the research tree is broken
Is this with a custom game start ?
yap....it is...
no ist nor a custom start. i tried a 1936 normal start game. same problem... no techs in armour tech tree. bevor the patch it was normal. now there are only a few techs.
p.s. good job... hoi3 is nothing without black ice ... hope you find the bug ... need to play ;)
don't think its a bug, more like a bad install, as nobody else is reporting this.
Many of the techs won't work correctly with a custom game start.
No it is not a custom start its normal 1936 start.
My BI always crashes after spending a few months playing and the game slows down when it arrives in 1942. This happens due to lack of memory?
you need to be using podcat's TFH exe
I cant download the podcats TFH exe since i havent been able to log in to pradoxforum for atleast 3 years since i lost my passwords to there and i was registered with an old e-mail. Why cant anyone just upload the file to anywhere else? Whats the big secret? I mean JESUS christ i have the game i bought the game and i need that file. It's not my fault Paradox forum moderators dont read their friggin e-mail helping me! PLZ HELP ME! Panzeroo i havent been able to play your mod for ages
its a paradox product. They own it and so to post a link here would be a copyright breach and possibly see the mod and myself banned from the forum. Nothing much I can do about it as I have as much contact with paradox and anyone else here.
So there is no way for me to play it properly then? Since i wont be able to write or read on those topics involving the game at the forum how am i gonna get it? Since i already registered my bought games approximately 7 of those on the forum with my other forum account they are locked even if i made another forum account. Well isnt this swell!!!!
You can actually use CFF explorer to let hoi3_tfh.exe handle more than 2gb address space, I did it before I found out about podcat's TFH exe and it's working fine for me.
It stopped working after the loading why?
you need to be using podcat's TFH exe