Hex of Steel 4+

ADDED
• 8 cm 29M (AA) to Hungary.
• BA-20, BT-7, BA-6, BA-27, T-34 76 1943, T-34 85 to Mongolia.
• BA-27 to USSR.
• Garrisons to Iceland.
• Light infantry 43 to Spain (fascist).
• 28cm Krupp K5 railway gun to Germany.
• Possibility through the units editor to personalize in what direction units can rotate.
• Units will now face the general direction of the enemy on scenario start (instead of all facing in the same direction).


CHANGED
• Multiplayer compat version.
• Slightly increased supply depots upkeep.
• Core code datastructure related to research and unit facing rotation. This will lead to a reset of this data on your save files.
• AI engineers won't sit on rivers forever, if nobody needs them there, they will move out.
• Small cost increase between strategic bombers capacities (damage).
• Improved balance of Europe '39 and '44.
• Reworked entirely the unit indice system, units numbers (indices) are now being properly recycled (no more 1000th light inf).
• Related to the above change, several unit types are now in their own indice category.
• Annexing tiles which have no production value is now 50% more expensive.
• Annexing tiles which have a production value will now also be more expensive.
• Prototype units now are only 30% more expensive than what they would normally be (their very limited max fielded number is really limiting them already).
• Whole bunch of units turned into prototypes (SU-26, AT-1, T-44, Neubaufahrzeug...).
• Added extra categories for prototypes so they don't count as regular units (for units indices).
• Unit cost rounding from 10 to 5.


FIXED
• AI units movement sounds could be heard while in FOW.
• AI AA units moving without attacking first.
• AI will now better remember where enemy units providing supportive fire are.
• Upgrading/Downgrading a unit would not update its name.
• Not possible to assign custom faction in map editor after adding a new player, you would need to close and re open the settings to be able to do it.
• If you changed the max HP of some units, the game would not properly apply the change(s) when opening a save file.
• Gunboats could not move across anti tank obstacles on bridges.
• Downgrading an infantry unit from a paratrooper into a regular infantry would keep its type as a plane (if the para unit was not on the ground).
• Anyone could delete any hosted PBEM game (instead of host only).
• AI units when being downgraded or upgraded would lose some fuel / ammo in the process (which the AI would have to pay for to refill).
• Made the AI less prone to being ambushed and running into enemy VPs.
• Units pathfinding issue when clicking on a tile to move to.
• AI submarines not diving when moving a second time.
• AI freeze with mods when upgrading/downgrading garrisons.
• Italy (AI) would transfer all the captured British VPs to Germany instead of keeping them for themselves.
• Placing your finger over visible mines (land/naval) would not display any information about it.
• 'Don't run before turn X' optional trigger not shown properly in the map editor.
• AI not buying as many units as it should have / could have when playing with upkeep.
• AI marines purchase ratio was too high.
• AI AT infantry purchase ratio was too high.
• Some soviet units production date were off.
• Some countries were missing their Train transport graphics.
• Changing a unit's level through the map editor would not update the unit's XP.
• Soviet Union (AI) not redeploying its army when Op. Barbarossa begins.
• UK AI will now properly invade Iceland in 1940.
• Germany trying to naval invade the UK on Europe scenarios (when historical focus is ON).
• Some units were in the wrong category/wrongly categorized.
• AI not moving to certain enemy victory points when it should have.
• Progressive cost working wrongly (being always +1).
• Winter version of non frozen lake had the same texture as a frozen lake, which would lead to some confusion.


REMOVED
• Rotation settings now managed per unit in editor.