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The Road to 56 [Beta]

December 2025 BETA!

**Highlights**
- Completely Overhauled the Nationalism Branch for the RoC.

**Additions**
- The National Catastrophe has been tweaked to be more broadly applicable (no ideology locks) and now all Chinese Governments have access to it.
- Added Petainist advisors for France, tweaked condition for a couple others.
- Shanghai now has the Shanghai International Settlement state modifier from vanilla.
- Added coal and coal decisions in relevant regions of Africa.
- Added a few mining focuses in the Katanga focus tree.

**Adjustments**
- Allowed the USSR Shocktroops focus to unlock the extra special forces specialization.
- Adjusted the populations of both South and North Tohoku to more accurate ones.
- Japan's AI should now attempt to counter the Emperor's Conspiracy.
- The PRC will no longer create the People's Front on historical.
- The Military Planning Corps decisions now are available again when the first selected target no longer exists.
- The RoC Tree has been reorganized.
- The Big Rear Plan Branch and the old Nationalism Branch have been split between the National Defense Council and the new Nationalism Branches.
- Romanian focuses Alliance with the Germans and Italians now have a bypass condition.
- Added coal to a relevant Tuvan focus.
- [GoE] Made a few Iranian focuses adapt better to decolonization of Pakistan, Syria and the Mandate.
- [NCNS] Added checks to many Filipino focuses.
- [NCNS] Japan and the Warlords should now have correct OOBs.
- [NCNS] Wang Jingwei's Branch on the RT56 tree has been updated to delay the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.

**Bugfixes**
- Added coal consumption modifiers to economy laws.
- The Sichuan Famine will now end (the last event will remove the national spirit).
- Fixed multiple instances of missing GFX.
- Portugal's Road to 56 focus tree has received full support for the new doctrine mastery system.
- Updated the Nusantara formable to include the new Filipino states.
- Added the new occupation laws that came with the No Compromise, No Surrender.
- Fixed Mannerheim giving negative effects as a theorist.
- Fixed Khotan Clique having its capital in Ruoqiang. Now it is back to being in Khotan.
- Fixing the text of a late game news event.
- [AAT] Fix the trieste Shipyard MIO for Austria.
- [GoE] Fix Iran's "Memphis Initiative" having far stricter requirements for its coring decisions than in vanilla.
- [NCNS] Ported most of the Strategic Locations from vanilla.
- [NCNS] RT56 Tree specific decisions will no longer show up on DLC tree RoC.
- [NCNS] The Marco Polo Bridge Incident will now happen at the right time.
- [NCNS] China is now able to annex the Northeast Army after the Xian incident.
- [NCNS] Fix state number conflict in goals: Control the Chinese capitals and in the goals regarding the mines in Northern Sweden
- [Non-NCNS] Restored Japan's election event for completing focus "The Showa Constitution".

**GFX**
- Various Focus Icons for the RoC have been improved.

**Localization**
- Portugal's Road to 56 focus "Address the New Spain" now has a tooltip explaining what the event does.

**Credits**
- Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project, as well as for opportunities to learn about the related history.

**Contact Us!**
- Questions? Comments? Let us know on [Discord](https://discord.gg/sp6ZZrM) and feel free to check us out on [X](https://twitter.com/RT56_Mod)! We'd love to hear from you!

**Our Wiki!**
- Do you want to know more about the mod? Do you need a path guide? Come and visit our [wiki](https://rt56.miraheze.org).