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Victoria 2 Cold War Enhancement Mod (CWE)

CWE brings Victoria 2 into the Cold War era and beyond. This is the ultimate Cold War mod with a slew of special features such as ideological blocs, dynamic international institutions and decolonisation chains to accurately simulate the Cold War and Post-Cold War world.

Credits

Creator: settintotrieste

Major contributors: ChrisFox, TheRop, Pippo_Franchino, ARR8, echasovikov, LooseTongue, Yard1, HKKNNTT, Etaglibash, Radical-Rust, arandomperson5000, LaTueur, JohnLockers, KeyboardMonkey95, RyongJin

With special thanks to: simsulla, HPM and the Modern Age Mod team

Start dates avaliable in CWE:

1946 1950 1992

East vs West - 1946

From Stettin to Trieste, an Iron curtain is descending upon Europe. Germany is divided in between the victorious nations from World War 2, the United States, the Soviet Union, the UK, and France. In south of Europe a power struggle in between communists and governments is raging. Italy is edging between Communism and Democracy. In Greece a civil war is raging with communists in the north and government control in the south. Eastern Europe is under the Soviet orbit and with each passing moment the USSR's stranglehold increases. In Asia, Iran is struggling to regain control over the northern part of the county. China is engulfed in the Chinese Civil War between the nationalists and the communists. Manchuria is occupied by the Soviet Union and Korea is divided between the USA and USSR. Japan is under American occupation. The Vietminh has rebelled against their French colonial overlords while in South East Asia the Dutch are struggling to maintain control over their empire and with it the era of decolonisation has begun. The Old World has been swept aside in the storm of war and a new one is taking shape but for better or worse this is the American Century.

The East is Red - 1950

Communism has triumphed in China. The East is Red. Confronted with this new reality and the end of the American atomic monopoly in 1949, the Truman administration quickly moved to escalate and expand its containment doctrine. Starting with the rearmament of Germany and then later Japan in the Western Bloc, the US attempted to form a bulwark against further communist encroachment. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, the Soviets are consolidating their power in Eastern Europe and building greater ties with China and India. While the Superpowers grow stronger, the colonial empires of old are becoming weaker. With the decolonisation of India, the winds of change are blowing against the imperialists. It is only a matter of time before those empires are consigned to the history books. A more immediate danger would be the tensions growing in the Korean Peninsula where nationalists are actively agitating for a War of Unification. This is a time of great upheaval that needs a great leader to guide the country forward - will it be you?

New World Order - 1992

"Gorbachev tear down this wall!" Few would have thought that the Iron Curtain would have fallen so quickly but yet it did. This sparked a chain reaction that reverberated throughout the world and started the decent of the USSR into a pulpit of pandemonium that would culminate into its dissolution. American is now the world hegemon. However it will not last long in this new multi-polar world with the rise of new centres of power in the ambitious and populace east. China and India are aspiring to seize the top spot and end the American hegemony though soft and hard power. And with globalization and the shift in geopolitical power towards the east, this is increasingly not a matter of if but when. In this renewed competitive multi-polar world, nations will join what initially are trade blocks, and eventually in some cases large centralized union states like the European Union, the South American Union and the African Union to keep up with the world. In light of these developments, the end of the Cold War can hardly have said to deliver the decisive realisation of international peace but it still has profoundly altered our world and whether it is for the better or worse is up to you. This is the beginning of the New World Order.

Important Notices

Supported languages: English only

Some people have asked whether not being able to justify war is a bug. It is not. The ability to justify war is tied to ruling party war policy, government type, world tension levels and being in a war. So unless you fulfill at least one of those conditions then war justification will be possible.

Social Corruption can be reduced by increasing literacy while Government Corruption can be reduced by increasing admin spending.

Development levels are determined by the literacy rates of specific provinces and whether the province has a large enough population. Provinces that have less than 30,000 pops will always be extremely underdeveloped. Increase your literacy to increase your developmental levels.

Installation Instructions

Copy CWE and CWE.mod from the CWE.zip file to the mod directory of your Victoria 2 Programs File. CWE requires Victoria 2 Heart of Darkness Version 3.04 which includes the beta patch. Please delete your map cache prior to starting a new version of the mod for the first time.