A number of provincial governors, nominally under the control of Chiang, ran their provinces as essentially separate political entities. In 1936, the Central Government under Chiang Kai-Shek had established some measure of control over the central regions of China.

After a revolution in 1911 deposed the last Qing Emperor, the young republic quickly found itself ripped apart by a brutal civil war that would continue, on and off, until 1949. So if you picked it up yesterday: jackpot!Ĭhina in 1936 was one of the most confusing and interesting countries on the planet. This also means that we are also no longer selling the pass. This means that the initially promised two expansions have now actually become four. So, in order to make sure we over-deliver and make everyone happy, we have decided that not only this expansion, but also the next expansion - the one after 'Waking the Tiger', which is planned to be similar in scope - will also be included in the pass. It turns out that scope changes of this type do not go well with an expansion pass if you look at the value we promised to pass-owners. We saw that with the resources we had, at the time, we couldn't release a full-sized expansion at the same time as we were spending time on improving the AI and doing other free updates to the base game, such as the significant revamp of the air combat system. The expansion pass for HOI4 was the first one we’ve done, and we’ve learned many lessons.įor example, we decided to release 'Death or Dishonor' as a country pack rather than a full-sized expansion so that we could still release something cool during a period of time when we were busy staffing up and focusing on technical issues.

We will be presenting focus trees and other content leading up to release, as well as going over other features we haven't shown off yet. A major theme in the expansion is Asia, with a special focus on China. The names comes from a quote by Mao: “When waking a tiger, use a long stick”. Hi and welcome! Today we announced the expansion we have been working on for the last couple of months: Waking the Tiger.

Hoi4 china focus tree