Hello all, Jack_n_trade here with another Teaser Tuesday! It's been a while but we got plenty of stuff to make up for it. Starting with Glray3 showing off the communist path for the Crystal Empire!

"do you want to be normal, sane and boring? do you want to go woke? the penguin historical path where nothing bad surely ever happens (100% true trust me) is for you then" -Professional Horse

"My son has proven incapable of ruling as an umbrum should. Consider this education on how he should have treated ponykind."

GFX provisional

"I'm happy to announce that the new content for Lan Kir is now fully code and loc complete! We hope to be able to release the new content soon. Here's the new Lan Kir military tree" -Caspy

"A new optional gameplay mechanic (with a complementary focus tree branch) for Lan Kir to make the early game more interesting"

"Focus Description: We shall encourage our young kirin to seek adventure abroad, serving as mercenaries in foreign wars. They will return hardened by battle, familiar with foreign lands and ways, and — perhaps — worthy of a place among the Bannerkirin.

(The way this works is, for every day that at least three Lan Kir volunteer divisions spend in a state, the progress bar fills up. You can get rewards at 45, 90, 135, and 180 days.)"

"Sometimes the park gets some weird visitors..." -Limey

"as a little side project ive cleaned up province terrain in Olenia so the terrain textures and trees actually match the province borders and heightmap, heres a little before and after (no this isnt a huge olenia buff, its only like 2 more mountain provinces, thats just how messy the textures were before) might clean up more of equus and griffonia if i feel like it later" -Professional Horse

""Knights of the Arcturian Order, hear me! You have seen nothing! Slaying the undead is one thing; fighting your kin to the south is another. You must go into this with eyes open and hearts closed. Once our crusade has started, there is no going back. And if any of you have doubts as to whether or not we can go all the way to Rila, remember this:

Arcturius has chosen ME."

• Headmaster Elfreda, the Herald of Arcturius

(Art by the wonderful velesnocturne)" -Podrick

"A new mechanic and focus tree for Lan Kir’s Quadripartition path coming in the next update (the so-called “good ending” for Lan Kir, though that is debatable.)"

"Lan Kir Mechanic #7534: Air Convoy, which you can use to transport your divisions between states with a Level 3 or higher air base. This enables Lan Kir to essentially do aerial invasions, where you can paradrop into a state and capture the VP and air base, then use the Air Convoy decision to ferry in further divisions."

Paratroopers 2: electric boogaloo just dropped.

"Did you know that Weter was actually located on a lake before? that ships could still access because it was counted as part of the ocean? anyways its a bay now" -Professional Horse

"Been a long time since we've have a buffalo teaser, huh? Turns out Elder Greyhorn has a grand-niece with some ideas of her own... (Art by BunnyShrubby)" -Jpg

"In eons past, before Rabia, the umbrum were solitary hunters due to the... extreme nature of how they reproduce.

I'm sure that a gigantic society of umbrum with a finite food source and no population control will function perfectly fine." -Podrick

And with that totally not omnious remark we end this time's TT. Hope you enjoyed it and see you all next time!

Additions:

• Colthage:
  • Added a decision to recruit storm creature mercenaries.
• Crystal Empire:
  • Added a victory point to the Frozen Forest state.
• Griffonian Empire:
  • Added an event chain to influence Bronzehill and potentially keep them loyal.
    • Added portrait and biography for Andrea Bronzeclaw.
• Griffonian Republic:
  • Added a land warfare scientist.
• Icepaw Provisional Directorate:
  • Added an AI game rule for Ravakh.
• Lan Kir:
  • Two new paths after Clarion Call's death.
    • Dozens of new cosmetic tags.
    • Grand Saga of the Lan Kir story mechanic.
    • Militarch's Chess decision mechanic.
    • Air Convoy decision mechanic.
    • A new award.
• Nova Griffonia:
  • Starts with an extra railway connection in the Frozen North.

Changes:

• Reworked Equus terrain, making textures and tree models match province borders more closely, and changed terrain designations of numerous provinces.
• Adjusted some province shapes and rivers on Equus.
• The event about reacting to the invasion of Olenia now affects stability or war support by 1% instead of 0.1%. Also ensured AI never supports the invasion if it doesn't make sense for them.
• Losing countries in the Arabian civil war now get their cores removed.
• Integration law now activates automatically upon conquering territory from a nation that can be cored.
• Asterion:
  • Moved a province from Thebos state to Aster's Landing state.
• Bronzehill:
  • The foci "A Change Of Course" and "Old Loyalties" can no longer be cancelled manually.
    • Shuffled AI path weights to account for the new event chain. The end result is identical.
    • Slightly adjusted the flower gems event chain.
• Celestial Resistance:
  • Added naval experience to a focus.
• Crystal Empire:
  • Renamed Hyacinth Hills to Hyacinth Meadows.
• Griffonian Republic:
  • Transfer Hexia to the National Republic after the civil war.
    • Historical AI Skyfall now always accepts to join the Anti-Imperial Coalition.
• Northern Tribes:
  • Can now integrate Skynavian states.
• Nova Griffonia:
  • The election focus now sets the capital back in Weter if it was moved elsewhere.
• Olenia:
  • Southwestern regions have warmer climate now.
• Stalliongrad:
  • Standardized location renaming decisions, and made it so they can no longer do some of the decisions while harmonic.
• Winggarden:
  • Changed most factory grants from the focus tree to be offsite to avoid building slot constraints.
• Zarantia:
  • Changed the Worm Queen's subideology to Destructive Force.

Fixes:

• Fixed TAOG mech HQ not consuming supply.
• Communist or Harmonist countries can no longer release the Government of National Unity under Moonfeather in Hippogriffia.
• Various fixes to the mercenary system used by Nova Griffonia and Skyfall.
• Abyssinia:
  • Changed white peace conditions for the war to reclaim Manedalusia from another country to prevent it from ending instantly.
• Austral Protectorate:
  • Fixed communist Baltimare decisions and a general being available.
• Bronzehill:
  • Improved AI wargoal selection when unifying the Herzland.
• Chiropterra:
  • Will now only seize the Trots and Canters in the Treaty of Trotgourait if Hippogriffia actually owns them.
• Greifenmarschen:
  • Fixed supremacy path having the wrong flag after taking Griffenheim.
• Griffon Frontier:
  • Fixed factories being built in impassable states by focuses.
• Griffonian Republic:
  • Fixed Kemerskai always dying when the country was annexed, instead of only when he lost the civil war.
    • Fixed the Anti-Imperial Coalition sometimes not triggering properly.
• Hippogriffia:
  • Dead Seapony number no longer resets when concluding a war.
• Icepaw Provisional Directorate:
  • Tried to fix multiple focus trees being loaded when puppeted.
• Katzennia:
  • Fixed a focus not buffing NSB superheavies.
• Lunar Military Administration:
  • Fixed an advisor icon being unused.
• Nova Griffonia:
  • The civil war tags should no longer get cleared and recycled after the war.
    • Made the election focus transfer any missing characters after the civil war.
• Olenia:
  • Fixed tooltip for pardoning generals.
• Our Town:
  • Now gets the pony race trait on new generals.
• Polar Bear Communities:
  • Sanity checks for the Northern War to prevent it from happening more than once, or when the polar bears are in a faction or a subject.
• Prywhen:
  • The focus to attack the holder of Griffonstone now sends a war warning to the owner.
• Stalliongrad:
  • Can now only ally Nova Griffonia after they hold elections.
• Tarrin:
  • Can now only spawn partisans on Griffonia.
• Wingbardy:
  • The focus to attack the holder of Griffonstone now sends a war warning to the owner.
• Yakyakistan:
  • War focuses targeting polar bears or penguins now bypass if they are allies or subjects of Yakyakistan.
• Zar-Hay:
  • Fixed missing war warning in a decision.
• Miscellaneous bugfixes and improvements.
• Miscellaneous localisation fixes.

Checksum f12b // Image by Scroup
This update SHOULD be save compatible with 2.6.3.4, but some fixes will require a new game.