Hearts of Iron IV: Battle for the Bosporus

Celebrate five years of one of the world’s most sophisticated simulations of the largest conflict in human history with this new Anniversary Content Pack, adding new aircraft models to fight it out in the skies over Eastern Europe. The Eastern Front Content Pack adds over 50 new planes for six nations in the region.

*The Eastern Front Planes Pack Includes:*
- 21 German Plane Models: A fleet of Luftwaffe designs, including the feared Ju-87 Stuka, the ubiquitous He-111 medium bomber and three hypothetical carrier launched planes.
- 12 Soviet Plane Models: A dozen planes from the Red Army Air Forces, including the “varnished coffin” LaGG-3 fighter, the celebrated Il-2 close air support plane, and the Tu-4 Cold War strategic bomber.
- 8 Polish Plane Models: Including the highly advanced PZL.37 Łoś bomber, the prototype PZL.56 Kania fighter and PZL.46 Sum light bomber.
- 4 Romanian Plane Models: The scrappy Romanian air force is represented by three IAR fighter designs and the IAR 37 light bomber.
- 5 Hungarian Plane Models: The biplane WM-16 bomber and the experimental RMI-8-X/V fighter are now in game with three other designs.
- 4 Yugoslavian Plane Models: The Yugoslav air force is represented by the Czech designed BH-33, the prototype R-313 fighter-bomber, and two more planes..

Ever since Spartans marched to war with pipers by their side, music has been an essential part of military order and morale. Fight the greatest armed struggle of the 20th century with thirteen new song tracks for four nations battling on the Eastern Front.

- 4 New Soviet Songs: including White Army, Black Baron, Volkhov Drinking Song, Dark is the Night, and The National Anthem of the USSR.
- 4 New German Songs: including Lili Marlene, Die Wacht am Rhein, Alte Kameraden, and Wir fahren gegen Engeland.
- 3 New Romanian Songs: including Treceti Batalioane, Pui de lei, and Drum Bun.
- 2 New Polish Songs: including Pierwsza Pancerna and My, Pierwsza Brygada

Bust through the Ardennes or encircle the Axis in style with this new cosmetic pack for Hearts of Iron IV. Including tanks previously only available in the Colonel Edition, this pack adds a number of new armored and tracked vehicles for the Allies and Comintern powers.

The Allied Armor Pack includes:
● 7 British Armor Units including the Deacon tank destroyer, Canada’s Sexton self-propelled artillery and Crusader anti-air units.
● 17 American Armor Units including the celebrated M7 Priest and the prototype M9 heavy tank destroyer.
● 8 French Armor Units including the Renault tank destroyer and the Canon de 194 self-propelled artillery.
● 13 Soviet Armor Units including the early AT-1 tank destroyer and five SU artillery variants.
● 8 Tanks for Each Major Allied Power for a total of 32 tank models, including the Soviet T-26, the British Centurion, America’s post-war Patton heavy tank and the French ARL 44.

Monumental and inspirational moments from history come alive in your Hearts of Iron IV game with the Allied Speech Pack.

Set to activate when certain in-game conditions are met, the Allied Speech Pack brings you closer to the past.
● Over 70 minutes of speech taken from the darkest days of the last century.
● 13 total speech excerpts
● “Peace in our time” declares Neville Chamberlain, as he sells out Czechoslovakia in favor of a temporary peace.
● “We shall fight on beaches” proclaims Winston Churchill, demonstrating the iron resolve that will get Great Britain through its darkest hour.
● “I have returned” said Douglas MacArthur, the titan of America’s army in the Pacific.
● And 10 more speeches from leaders of the Allied nations.

The enemy has installed a puppet government in an allied nation. Brave individuals promise to fight against their occupiers and oppressors. Use your agile espionage skills to support the work of La Résistance.

La Résistance adds secret agents, espionage missions and new options for resistance movements to Hearts of Iron IV, the popular grand strategy wargame from Paradox Development Studio. Send agents into dangerous territory to decipher enemy secrets or prepare the ground for your invasion by propping up collaborators who will be happy for any taste of power.

From the convoy attacks in the Battle of the Atlantic to the fierce carrier battles on the Pacific front, the Second World War saw naval innovation in both tactics and technology. The war at sea takes center stage in Hearts of Iron IV: Man the Guns, a new expansion to Paradox Development Studio’s popular strategy wargame.

Design your own ships and refit older models. Alter your convoy routes to avoid hungry wolf packs. Embrace or circumvent naval treaties and deal with the diplomatic consequences.

Man the Guns also introduces new alternate history paths for the major democracies of the war and gives the freedom loving nations of the world more freedom to act before the war forces their hand.

Features of Man the Guns include:

• New Alternate American History: Use the American Congress to push for reform, at the risk of plunging the nation into another civil war.
• New Alternate British History: Push for early decolonization of the British Empire or restore the ancient privileges of the monarchy.
• Ship Design: Research new components and refit older vessels to take advantage of new knowledge. Outfit your submarines with snorkels or improved stealth.
• Admiral Traits and Skills - Tailor and level up your Admirals with new traits and skills.
• Governments in Exile: Welcome a government in exile to your democracy, boosting their legitimacy in return for more manpower and elite troops fighting to free their homeland.
• Other National Focuses: New national focuses for The Netherlands and Mexico.
• Naval Mines: Protect your coasts from invasion or assault with anti-ship mines, or clear a path through enemy mines before you make the big push.
• Shipping route controls - plot new routes for your shipping and navies by marking areas you want to avoid.
• Naval Treaties: Struggle to keep the peace by following internationally agreed upon rules, or creatively defy the world consensus by exceeding your limits.
• Amphibious Landing Vehicles: Add power to your beach landing by researching and producing specialized combat vehicles for your marines.
• New Music: Original music composed specifically for the Man the Guns expansion.

Years before Europe went to war, Japan’s imperial ambitions targeted the divided Chinese Republic. Crippled by political paralysis and centuries of fitful development, China is still not a pushover. With vast reserves of manpower and resources, not to mention a giant landmass, the Republic of China and its temporary ally, the Communists under Mao, can withstand another aggressor. There have been, after all, very many.

Waking the Tiger is the newest expansion for Paradox Development Studio’s celebrated World War II strategy wargame, Hearts of Iron IV. This expansion adds new gameplay options for all players, and has a special focus on the Asian front of the deadliest war in human history.

History forged the ties. Empire made them tighter. Can war tear them apart?

Join the Dominions as they step up to the challenge of defending the motherland for King and Country in Together for Victory, the first major expansion for Hearts of Iron IV, the critically acclaimed strategy wargame from Paradox Development Studio. This expansion puts the focus on British Commonwealth nations, deepening the experience of playing these outposts of the English language.

For Canada, Australia, New Zealand, The Raj (India) and South Africa

For each of the Dominions, with options to stay loyal to Great Britain, or forge a new, more independent destiny

Giving subject states degrees of independence from a foreign master

Allow you to ask your allies to send you desperately needed equipment

Allowing more control over grand encirclements and punching through enemy lines

Will allow Commonwealth nations to quickly catch up with British assistance

Learn by past victories or defeats. Giving you history over recent battles. and statistics on equipment losses, you can see exactly how your troops are performing.

Death or Dishonor is a new Country Pack for Hearts of Iron IV, and expands upon players’ ability to experience history’s greatest conflict from any point of view. This new pack focuses on the countries caught between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany during World War II -- faced with the tough choices of starting a conflict with a global superpower, or compromising their ideals to strike a deal for their own survival.

Including new National Focus Trees for Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, Death or Dishonor adds new unique events, nation-specific art and music, and much more, giving players all-new ways to experience -- and change -- the course of history.

Death or Dishonor includes:
- Four New Focus Trees:
Experience the war from the difficult perspectives of Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.
- Equipment Conversion:
Update your arsenal by converting older units -- or make use of captured enemy vehicles and gear.
- New Music and Art:
3 new thematic musical tracks from composer Andreas Waldetoft, new art content for the four focus nations, and new troop voiceovers.
- New Diplomatic and Puppet Interactions:
License military technology to bring other nations’ weapons to the field or sell your advances to the highest bidder. Fascist countries get new subject levels like Reichskommissariat, with access to licenses, industry and strategic resources. The instated governments are held in an iron grip, making it harder for them to break free.

Drown out the hum of machinery and whine of bomber engines with the soothing sounds of new martial music brought to you by Paradox Interactive and its composing partners. This DLC pack adds unique radio stations for each of the three major factions in Hearts of Iron IV (Allies, Axis and Comintern) and gives access to free music updates as well.

*+The Hearts of Iron Radio Pack gives access to:+*
*Faction Radio Channels: *
- A total of 35 new songs spread across three faction specific radio channels, each with their own unique look and design.

Push through the plains of the Low Countries or the jungles of Burma in style with new 3D unit models of Axis armor units. A total of 53 new armor models are in this pack which, added to the eight tanks available in the German Tank Pack, gives the forces of fascist militarism 61 different armor designs you can see in-game.

As a free bonus - the Axis Armor Pack also includes eight German tank models, previously only available in the Hearts of Iron IV: Colonel edition, such as the King Tiger and the Maus super heavy tank. After all, you can’t have Axis Armor without German tanks.

*+The Axis Armor Pack includes:+*
*19 German Armor Models: *
- A range of tank destroyers, self propelled artillery and self propelled anti-air vehicles, including the Stug III, the Wespe and the Elefant heavy tank destroyer.

*22 Japanese Armor Models: *
- A range of every armor type, with seven different Japanese tank designs like the experimental heavy O-I tank that never went into production and a number of tank destroyers.

*12 Italian Armor Models: *
- A roster of Semovente tank destroyers and the always outmatched L6 tank highlight this list of Italian armor from the war.