What is BlackICE?

Black ICE is a major overhaul of Hearts Of Iron 3, The Grand World War II Strategy game by Paradox Interactive.

What does Black ICE add to HOI3?
•Over 4,000 immersive events and decisions
•100+ unique technologies to research
•400+ unique units (including SS and Soviet Guards)
•Completely new artwork and sound effects
•Thousands of hours of bug fixes and play balance

The BlackICE Team

While contributions to BlackICE have been made by dozens of passionate, dedicated modders over the years, there is a core team that handles game-balance, event management, software builds, distribution, and general direction of the mod. Please see the in-game credits for a detailed list! Everyone on the BlackICE team is a bona-fide history fanatic, with a love and passion for trying to create an experience that both educates and is fun to play.

Panzeroo

Mod lead. Lives in Blue Mountains, Australia with my splendid wife and mischievous daughters.

Maverick87

The GUI-guy, event-maker. Living in Roosendaal, Netherlands with my wife and 2 daughters.

Developing a offline division builder, fleet builder.

Had a dad

The lua meglomanic, currently residing in North Carolina. Panzeroo convinved me to take on the lua March of 2012 and with the help of many I think I am now half way decent. I have a beautiful daughter, and in addition to my job in IT, I am attending college full time.

Marneman

I'm a former gaming-company exec, and a former M1 tanker in the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division (Rock of the Marne!). I live in Atlanta, Georgia with my wonderful wife and 2 lovely daughters. I mainly focus on event chains, graphics, sound FX, etc. A little bit of everything I guess!

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Black ICE 11.3.4 released

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Installation:

1)IF You're using the steam version do this:
Move the game out of the steam folder, and launch it using the launcher.exe in the future (create a shortcut or add it to your start menu).

2) Download the mod.
3) Launch the installer.
4) Select the BASE game folder as written in the installer.
5) Let it extract, say yes to any override requests.
6) Run the “zDsafe_ExePatcher.exe” located in the main folder.
7) Start the game. Once in the main menu go into the Utility. On the “Special” page press “Remove Sprites”.
8) Restart and enjoy the game.


11.3.4 Patch Notes

General

  • removed the unit and year restrictions from the Rhineland reoccupation events
  • Anschluss of Austria no longer has ahistoric chances for AI
  • added a covert ops mission to make PUPPETS build resource buildings on request
  • economy focus tweak
  • reactivated the Brandenburgers Stalin raid events
  • SCW balance tweaks
  • USA will revoke guarantees for american minors once the minor joins a faction (except Panama due to bugs)
  • Buffed Science Minister bonuses from periodic events for all investment levels
  • Tweaked base bonuses for Science Ministers

Units and combat Balance

  • nerfed Electric Submarine sea attack
  • PBB no longer considered capital
  • tweaks to Open/Closed Hangar bonuses
  • tweaked radar techs requirements for ships
  • MTB nerfed back where they belong
  • small nerf to FTR

Technology

  • lowered air cooling penalty for CAG
  • rebalanced Proximity Fuze tech and added separate one for ship based AAA
  • added radar tech for subs

Models/Graphics/Sounds
AI/LUA

  • changed AI leadership allocation
    • tries to always have diplo points available
    • more aggressive spying
    • more aggressive influencing
  • SOV AI will always have to fight the Baltics now (this makes it deploy units to the western front for Barbarossa)
  • SOV AI will build airbases

Utility

  • daily ICdays reduction value gets updated instantly now

Map

  • Reims: Urban -> Forest,
  • Wellington: Urban -> Forest,
  • Christchurch: Urban -> Mountain,
  • Aleppo: Plains -> Urban,
  • Urban textures for
    • Portsmouth, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Reims(Small), Dijon, Besançon, Montpellier, Toulon, Cordoba, Wellington(Small), Christchurch(Small), and Auckland(Small).
    • Small meaning visible, but not enough to count as urban.
  • western russia a bit colder now

QoL/UI

  • added rivers in the BICE Geo battle plan for Turkey, Japan, China
  • event texts should no longer overflow the event window

GFX

  • removed some nono symbols

Bug Fixes

  • fixed some missing Spanish civil war modifiers
  • fixed a CTD in the statistics window
  • fixed the “30 divisions plan” OOBs spawning for USA instead of CHI
  • fixed a duplicate Rokossovsky leader for SOV
  • fixed the French-Polish unit in Syria
  • fix soviets getting expelled from the league of nations even when not doing the winter war
  • fixed missing difficulty decisions for USA
  • fixed custom production slider lend lease allocation
  • fixed soviet industry evacuation
  • fixed GER suggesting alliance to already hostile FIN
  • fixed US BASE SECTION 4 spawning in hostile egypt
  • fixed OP Torch not requiring Gibraltar
  • fixed unaligned buildings in province tab
  • fixed CAG Aces techs not having correct values
  • fixed CSS battle gfx bug

FIRST CHECKSUM: SIMJ
SECOND CHECKSUM: JBUV

Download link: Drive.google.com

Enjoy!

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Change of the team, last few years, direction and upcoming updates

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Black ICE is moving to HOI IV !We have started on the long road of modding HOI IV into a game we will all enjoy playing.

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New Version will include reworked transport ships, rebalanced infantry based units and a host of bug fixes and rebalances.

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ironhearts
ironhearts - - 6 comments

4.Point is to be able to shape map of the world as we want,add some universal mechanics that can let us be rewarded Actually for beating military might of another faction, and not just end up with crappy map.

Another example:As germany , add wargoal: Give to nationalist spain Southwestern France (there was similar goal in another mod i think)

Example: As soviet union: add war goal: Expand Yugoslavia by giving them Bulgaria (that means soviets have VERY good puppet nation that have access to the black sea)

p.s Yugoslavia and soviet union, or to be more correctly, serbia and russia were Very friendly troughout history.

________ These are only FEW < examples , To be honest if i could and i am sure that others too , Would like to have Some kind of Map tool to SHAPE map as they want(ofc ingame as special ability or as an event/decision) , like ''select provinces u want to be added to your empire'' for example as Germany after defeating Poland/Sweden. But i know thats not possible in HOi3, at least not in These last 3 expansions - SO war goals are our Friends and they are modable as far as i know

that said, use all the possible alternative 'realistic Possibilites which can be backed by arguments' to get as much as you can abilities (war goals) to shape the map as we players would like, i am sure that everyone (90%) players would like this,cos hoi3 lacks diplomacy and diplomacy is fun when combined with War

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ironhearts
ironhearts - - 6 comments

Also if its possible, it would be Amazing if we would have more diplomatic options.
what i mean is:

A) More Options regarding War goals: It would be good to be able for >example< to select following war goals:

1. To split up Germany into 2-10 Occupation zones/Teritories or Puppet regimes or Giving each victor (major i guess) nations to control certain german lands (example: france gets southwest,england northwest,usa southeast etc)


2.For example as Germany to be able to create Zones within Western Soviet Union. (Germans actually planned this,but details are not certain and i wouldnt go in details). after conquering soviet union would be good to split it up into 1 - 10 (1 or10) Regions,in hoi3 engine that would be represented by 1 or 10 Puppet nations like: Novgorod,muscowy,Ukraine,belarus...... there are MANY alternative Realistic < WHAT IF > countries that can be made and i belive its not very hard to mod this as u have already added Ukraine/belarus.

3.Being able as for example USA: to demand from italians/Any other nation were/are @ war with USA to cede certain land.

Example: Italians to cede Western Libya or eastern Libya. or just Libya or all Italian NON European land. that means libya and parts of african horn. OR to cede that 2 greek islands to greece etc etc.....

Example:Spain to cede all non european land to the US OR< to release Moroco etc etc....

This can be achieved by adding cores to whole africa,middle east etc like u did with Belarus and Ukraine. so that for example germany can ask from france to release all nations from its West Afica colonies, to make them 'free'.

so yes basically more Cores and more nations.

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ironhearts
ironhearts - - 6 comments

I am Looking for Players who wana play Black Ice in MULTIPLAYER. All you need to have is enough free time and windows vista/7 (even XP but be sure it will work).
We will be playing Black ice TFH (Their finest hour) Version. currently its version 1.5 (BI). Pm me or add me on skype: algore1994.

Also i would like to report a potential game breaking Bug:
Shortly, in my USA campaign (ver 1.5) i was pushing into germany , liberating france- took berlin and 60% of german homeland - in same time germans and italians and romanians (good ai i must admit) were flanking me from the south france (Destroyed my southern flank literally) and now are heading to my rear which is good. BUT UK have like 15 corps (like 500k - 900k)soldiers , Standing in Britan and they wont help, i told them to attack here and there (for like 1 year) but they just sit there whole game.
P.s they are fighting good in africa and indochina, but if not 90% of their forces just sit in britan... it ruined my game kinda. but its better than vanilla if nothing lol.

2nd)
In same campaign , germans literally pushed into Central soviet union, kazakhstan and Arrived near Mongolia, BUT soviet uion is like 85% surender......... is it meant to be like that or? cos it kinda breaks game. but i still prefer playing sp Black ice than stupid vanila

3rd)

the number that represents Tech skill in the brigade tab isnt changing.Example: i upgraded my soldiers (infantry for example) till year 43' 5x Times , but it still says I (should be like V or VI or VIII) if u know what i mean, tho weapon names do change, so its probably just visual bug.

This is why i prefer MP . i think this mod is at the moment , BEST of all.just needs some fine tunning, really really Great job

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Mr.Nowak Creator
Mr.Nowak - - 96 comments

Please know engine limitations before telling its a bug. Know the game and then report true mod related bugs not game related bugs as we don't make the game.

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Jeppson_w
Jeppson_w - - 2 comments

The instructed download link for the exe. in the downloaded .rar does'nt work...

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Hearme_RAWR
Hearme_RAWR - - 3 comments

im having the same issue can somone help

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Guest
Guest - - 706,570 comments

Same here

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Hearme_RAWR
Hearme_RAWR - - 3 comments

i found out go to there facebook page Facebook.com

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Herr_Sturmführer
Herr_Sturmführer - - 1,760 comments

Tried the beta from the Paradox forums - crashes everytime I click on Lithuania on the map selection screen.

Also load times for me are almost 10 minutes.

Haven't yet been able to play it.

Sturm.

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Herr_Sturmführer
Herr_Sturmführer - - 1,760 comments

Also tried as France and it still crashed, I also installed the map cache hotfix.

Sturm

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Herr_Sturmführer
Herr_Sturmführer - - 1,760 comments

Yet it dosen't crash when I try a scenario such as Operation Overlord. Any ideas?

Latest Patch 1.5 hotfix installed aswell.

Sturm.

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PANZEROO Creator
PANZEROO - - 1,461 comments

Are you running the game on an XP machine ?

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Herr_Sturmführer
Herr_Sturmführer - - 1,760 comments

Yes

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