Features:

- Mod built on World in Flames 2 latest version which includes WWI scenario with a ton of new events for both WWII and WWI. Also new special units like SS, kamikazes, ghurkas, rangers, ski infantry and great war tanks. Merged many of Edge of Darkness events, game balance and AI. Game balance is a bit of WiF2, EoD and my own. 1933 and 1914 scenarios available.

- Sprites ranging from WWI to the first jet fighters all carefully selected from the best work made through the years from several modders (Imperator/Chicken Spadge, BeBros, Puma, Odecca, Dima Strannik). I've also improved, fixed, reworked and expanded on it, so that all sprites look good together and that none feel out of place.

- Francesco's Models Mod that replaces the vanilla black & white model photos with coloured drawings. I've also updated it to the 1.05 version of DH as there was ID changes and other changes, I've also added appropriate images to the extra brigade divisions and also replaced the vanilla for generic ones so no more vanilla images.

- Kazoo's SKIF style icons mod that replaces the vanilla unit icons models.

- Decriser's DEC Map mod that adds terrain information on political map mode.

- Official Graphic Pack that overalls most of the UI and flags, I've also used some bits of Horton13's Graphic Improvement Project.

- tioperete's ProvincePics Project mod that adds a ton of new province pictures.

- Map icons from Total Realism Project that goes very well with the sprites, I've also used the topbar_folder for the main interface buttons which merges perfectly with the UI.

- Replaced many of the small UI icons.

- Immersive WWII and WWI era music playlists for the major factions and alternative classical music playslists, all volume leveled to 91db in Mp3Gain. You can also add your own music easily.

- Add your own music easily: just copy your own mp3 to the music folder in Blood and Iron's folder and add the mp3 names to My_Music text file (1 name in each line, game reads from top to down), names should not contain spaces. Then in game just choose My Music from the Playlist event.

- Historical speeches and music for some important events.

Credits:

Events, game balance and AI:

- World in Flames 2
- Edge of Darkness

Sprites:

- Imperator (sprites creator) / Chicken Spadge (conversion to DH) - Infantry and cavalry sprites.
- BeBros - Ships, motorized and mechanized sprites.
- Puma - Tanks, helicopters, rockets, most WWII aircrafts.
- Odecca - WWI aircafts, German naval and jet aircrafts, some tanks (Tiger, Leopards, AMX30, A7V-U, Bison).
- Dima Strannik - Most Japanese aircrafts.

UI and overall graphics:

- Total Realism Project - Map icons and topbar_folder file.
- Francesco's Models Mod
- Kazoo's SKIF Style Icons
- Decriser's DEC Map
- Official Graphic Pack
- Horton13's Graphic Improvement Project - Main menu, loadscreen.
- tioperete's ProvincePics Project

Installation:

- Extract to your Darkest Hour/Mods folder
- Choose Blood and Iron v1.1 on the launcher mods list (also check Unit sprites and Country-specific graphics)
- Play and have fun

(Note: the game might take up to around 1min and 15sec to launch due to the huge amount of sprites and events)

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Blood and Iron v1.1

Blood and Iron v1.1

Full Version 1 comment

Incorporated tioperete's ProvincePics Project mod that covers almost all provinces, fixed Afrika Korps event bugs like transport ships spawning in Africa...

Blood and Iron v1.0

Blood and Iron v1.0

Full Version 8 comments

OUTDATED - Some corrections to units icons, some tweaks and rebalance, revised music playlists.

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Blood and Iron v1.1 RELEASED

This isn't a big update but shall have fixed the annoying bug with transport ships spawning in Africa and other small bugs related to the Afrika Korps event due to a conflict with the vanilla one. It also incorporates tioperete's ProvincePics Project mod that covers almost all provinces in the map. There is also some other tweaks and corrections based on feedback.

Changelog:

- Incorporated tioperete's ProvincePics Project mod that covers almost all provinces
- Fixed Afrika Korps event bugs like transport ships spawning in Africa and others
- Tweaked autosave settings
- Several minor corrections

Installation:

- Extract to your Darkest Hour/Mods folder
- Choose Blood and Iron v1.1 on the launcher mods list (also check Unit sprites and Country-specific graphics)
- Play and have fun

(Note: the game might take up to around 1min and 15sec to launch due to the huge amount of sprites and events)

Darkest Hour 1.05 required
Checksum: MCIQ

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Schneller_Heinz
Schneller_Heinz

Hi All,
I have a little experience playing Hoi2 & Darkest Hour - over 7000 hours!
This morning I had a loading problems with saved games in Blood and Iron v1.0 which I could not overcome.
I foolishly reload DH from steam and reload Blood and Iron v1.0, big screw up!
I get the loading screen which says Blood and Iron v1.0 is available but when I get into the game I get the top right hand corner banner for Darkest Hour v 1.05.1 (LINC) and Blood and Iron v1.0 underneath it. Once in the game is DH but the sprints are just squares with crosses in them.
Please any help as how to overcome this problem will be must appreciated.
Best Regards

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Synthoras
Synthoras

Some issues I have noticed:

1.Infantry Divisions cost 33 manpower instead of 13 as they should so they end up costing nations with lot's infantry a lot more manpower than they should.O noticed this pretty late in my germany playthrough and I kept wondering why my manpower was so low.

2.Experience gain for units is pretty much non existent.Even units that repeadely have 1:5 kill ratios actually end up losing exp.

3.The Fate of France and GB decisons are not avaiable after 1942.So it's not possible to get the special puppets.

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sleepyhandy
sleepyhandy

how to install this mod?

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Adunai
Adunai

Have an upvote! How does Blood & Iron compare to World in Flames 2 and Edge of Darkness?

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xxkillerxx
xxkillerxx

How do you beat the Soviets as Germany in this mod? They have so much divisions and industry that even if I wipe out a 100 divisions they are barely affected
Am I doing something wrong because I've beat Russia many times on vanilla Darkest Hour but just cant seem to get it right with this mod

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thewanderingknight Creator
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Try what the Guest said, Soviets in this mod are meant to be a challenge for Germany :P

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Guest
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I won against the Soviets, quite hard but you just need about 260 divisions in the front in the most early date possible, then encircled them as many times as you can before finaly won. It takes like 1 year and a half if you do it properly.

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