Balkanize the Great Powers (More Releasable Nations)
This mod adds a bunch of releasable nations to the great powers for people who like breaking up enemy nations instead of outright conquest. Most releasable nations are moderately large (on the order of Ukraine or Occitania in the vanilla game) to justify the flat 30 warscore cost and the fact that you don’t get the land yourself. Nations are added in 4 main cases: 1) If there were no releasables of at least medium size for that state already. 2) To clean up bordergore or forgotten states. 3) If there was a releasable, but its capital was the same as the capital of the country being released from, which would prevent it from being chosen. 4) If there was a releasable, but it required a tech like Nationalism or Pan Nationalism, as these stupidly required the target country (rather than the enforcing country) to have the tech, which can be very annoying for countries full of idiots like Russia.
Each country has a unique flag. Some are historical, some are taken from real-world designs, and the rest are hallucinated from DALL-E with touchups in Photoshop. The flags of Neustria, Rumelia, and especially Freimark go pretty hard if I do say so myself.
This is compatible with the Liberate Country as Subject mod, if you want to have a goofy game where you play puppet master. It should also be compatible with any other mod that adds releasable countries, although there may be some redundancy.
Added countries:
France: Added 2 countries to complement Occitania
-Neustria: The northwestern third of France
-Burgundy: The northeastern third of France
Great Britain: Added 2 replacement countries for England since you can’t release it while London is the capital of the UK
-Northumbria: The two provinces in the north of England
-Midlands: Everything else
Spain: Added 2 countries to complement Andalusia
-Aragon: The northeastern chunk of the country
-Leon: The northwestern chunk of the country
Germany: Added 4 countries to complement Rhineland and Bavaria to break down a united Germany
-Swabia: Southwestern portion
-Weserland: Northwestern portion
-Elbia: Area around Berlin
-Freimark: Prussia, Silesia, and Polish lands — has a very nice flag
Italy: This country really lacks good releasables once it unifies in vanilla
-Naples: A releasable Two Sicilies
-Umbria: Central region of Italy
-Padania: Piedmont region of Italy
Austria: Mostly already good, only lacking in a few areas
-Aquilonia: All the Italian holdings together
-Illyria: Croatia + Slovenia + forgotten Montenegro
-Galicia: Like vanilla Galicia-Lodomeria, but with the forgotten chunk of Moldavia included
Russia: Needed a lot of work
-Poland-Lithuania: Everything east of Belarus
-Moldova: The forgotten chunk southwest of Ukraine
-Novgorod: Northwestern parts of Russia
-Muscovy: Areas around Moscow
-Transcaucasia: Early version that doesn’t require pan-nationalism
-Siberia: Early version that doesn’t require pan-nationalism, and also includes Vladivostok of Russia expands that far
-Don Kuban Union: North of the Caucasus
-Volgaria: Area between Ukraine and Kazakhstan
-Vyatka: Area just west of the Urals
Ottomans: 3 added
-Rumelia: All European holdings except core Bulgaria
-Ankara: Modern Turkey + Cyprus, but without Kurdistan
-Kurdistan: Southeastern Turkey and surrounding areas
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Standard mod update disclaimer: I bounce around from game to game quite often, so this mod may fall out of date when updates occur. If that happens, anyone is free to fork this mod to update it without asking for permission. Acknowledging me as the original mod creator is appreciated, but not required.
