BlackICE Historical Immersion Mod

Black ICE is a global modification of HOI 4, the main goal of which is to make the game more exciting, historical and complex. Developers strive to maintain a fine line between historical accuracy and game balance. Mod is designed for single-player play against AI.

Fashion features.

For all major countries, BICE adds a huge number of new types of equipment, armored vehicles, aircraft and ships. If you've played BICE in HOI3, you have a general idea of what to expect from this fashion.

The list of units includes SS units, Soviet guards, commandos, garrison, militia, light infantry, infantry tanks, tank cars, armored vehicles, motorcycle reconnaissance, cavalry reconnaissance, medium and heavy artillery, coastal artillery and railway artillery.

All major countries have their own specialized tanks, aircraft and ships. Specialization trees have been reworked and added for all major and many minor areas. Many of these trees were taken from other modes.

The maps have been significantly revised, and significant changes have been made in regions and provinces. The country colors have been changed to match the HOI3 BICE color scheme. For example, the UK is khaki brown, the US is olive gray, and Germany is field gray. Laws and policies have been vastly improved and expanded to define the country’s path more precisely. Many new ministers, politicians, and generals have emerged.

All national models and production have undergone significant changes. Technology allowed for the creation of new units, upgrades and the opening of new equipment to existing units. Thus, an infantry battalion will have only basic infantry equipment and will gradually unlock auxiliary units (mortars, machine guns, snipers, radios, etc.). Infantry battalions have better characteristics, but they are more expensive to produce and maintain.

To compensate for the cost of producing weapons, the addition of special factories (for example, tank factories, artillery factories, small arms factories) was made. These buildings reduce the cost of producing machinery and equipment and can be occupied (or lost) during war.

Where historically warranted, AI has been trained to handle all new technologies, equipment, and units well. The developers spent a lot of time on fine-tuning AI, making the most of the opportunities provided by modders. But many of the nuances of AI behavior cannot be coded, and thus cannot be helped.

BICE also includes many historical events to create various military structures and templates (mostly for known units).

BICE has guerrilla attacks that can be turned on and off at the beginning of the game.

Requirements.

The BlackICE Event-GFX mod must be installed and activated.

Mod tested with game version: 1.13.6.