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** ''Waking the Tiger'' (the third DLC for ''Hearts of Iron IV''), as well as the accompanying free update, were released on 8th March (International Women's Day) of 2018. [[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/hoi4-dev-diary-pre-release-and-international-womens-day-read-the-threadmark-before-posting.1076434/ New content]] include a loading screen featuring two female Soviet snipers, a "women in the workforce" decision (if the country is at war, allowing women to replace men in factories allows to allocate more men as the available manpower for army recruitment), a "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Foster Rosie the Bren Gun Girl]]" and "Rosie the Riveter" events (the effect of taking the aforementioned "women in the workforce" decision, respectively of Canada and USA), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soong_Mei-ling Soong Mei-Ling]] (UsefulNotes/ChiangKaiShek's wife) available as a Chinese minister, or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Kawashima Yoshiko Kawashima]] (a Chinese princess of Manchu origin who was raised in Japan and became a spy) available as a Manchukuo general.

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** ''Waking the Tiger'' (the third DLC for ''Hearts of Iron IV''), as well as the accompanying free update, were released on 8th March (International Women's Day) of 2018. [[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/hoi4-dev-diary-pre-release-and-international-womens-day-read-the-threadmark-before-posting.1076434/ New content]] include a loading screen featuring two female Soviet snipers, a "women in the workforce" decision (if the country is at war, allowing women to replace men in factories allows to allocate more men as the available manpower for army recruitment), a "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Foster Rosie Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl]]" and "Rosie the Riveter" events (the effect of taking the aforementioned "women in the workforce" decision, respectively of Canada and USA), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soong_Mei-ling Soong Mei-Ling]] (UsefulNotes/ChiangKaiShek's wife) available as a Chinese minister, or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Kawashima Yoshiko Kawashima]] (a Chinese princess of Manchu origin who was raised in Japan and became a spy) available as a Manchukuo general.
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** A specific set of circumstances (some player influenced, some random) allow Victoria Louise to be crowned as Kaiserin of a restored UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany (and possibly the UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire). Her regal title? Victoria III. The Paradox fanbase always hoped that the next game announced would be a sequel to ''[[VideoGame/VictoriaAnEmpireUnderTheSun Victoria II]], which happened in 2021.''.
** On November 1, 2017, podcat released a Developer Diary named "[[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/1052860 Airplanes and]] {{Lootboxes}}". On closer inspection, "lootboxes" was how podcat was referring to packets of airdropped supplies, but at least one person had a knee-jerk reaction thinking that this was the addition of {{Microtransactions}} to ''IV''. He also followed up by saying he was not adding actual loot boxes to the game after viewing an article on the subject and provided a link. It was a {{JustForFun/Rickroll}}.
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** ''Waking the Tiger'' (the third DLC for ''Hearts of Iron IV''), as well as the accompanying free update, were released on 8th March (International Women's Day) of 2018. [[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/hoi4-dev-diary-pre-release-and-international-womens-day-read-the-threadmark-before-posting.1076434/ New content]] include a loading screen featuring two female Soviet snipers, a "women in the workforce" decision (if the country is at war, allowing women to replace men in factories allows to allocate more men as the available manpower for army recruitment), a "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Foster Rosie the Bren Gun Girl]]" and "Rosie the Riveter" events (the effect of taking the aforementioned "women in the workforce" decision, respectively of Canada and USA), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soong_Mei-ling Soong Mei-Ling]] (UsefulNotes/ChiangKaiShek wife) available as a Chinese minister, or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Kawashima Yoshiko Kawashima]] (a Chinese princess of Manchu origin who was raised in Japan and became a spy) available as a Manchukuo general.

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** ''Waking the Tiger'' (the third DLC for ''Hearts of Iron IV''), as well as the accompanying free update, were released on 8th March (International Women's Day) of 2018. [[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/hoi4-dev-diary-pre-release-and-international-womens-day-read-the-threadmark-before-posting.1076434/ New content]] include a loading screen featuring two female Soviet snipers, a "women in the workforce" decision (if the country is at war, allowing women to replace men in factories allows to allocate more men as the available manpower for army recruitment), a "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Foster Rosie the Bren Gun Girl]]" and "Rosie the Riveter" events (the effect of taking the aforementioned "women in the workforce" decision, respectively of Canada and USA), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soong_Mei-ling Soong Mei-Ling]] (UsefulNotes/ChiangKaiShek (UsefulNotes/ChiangKaiShek's wife) available as a Chinese minister, or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Kawashima Yoshiko Kawashima]] (a Chinese princess of Manchu origin who was raised in Japan and became a spy) available as a Manchukuo general.
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** Originally, Poland's monarchist path in ''IV'' would've only had 3 options (Friedrich Christiansen, Michael I, and Pavel Berdmondt-Avalov). However, the dev in charge of the path found time to implement a fourth option (Karl Albrecht von Habsburg).

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** Originally, Poland's monarchist path in ''IV'' would've only had 3 4.5 options (Friedrich Christiansen, Michael I, and Pavel Berdmondt-Avalov).Berdmondt-Avalov, with Anastasia Romanov and Wotjek being SecretCharacter[=s=]). However, the dev in charge of the path found time to implement a fourth option (Karl Albrecht von Habsburg).
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** While the finished reworked Soviet Focus tree in ''No Step Back'' does not have a proper democratic path, content shows that one would've been able to select Vsevolod Ivanovich as a Tsar, and he would've been able to lead a democratic Russia (in the final game, Vladimir III is the only choice).

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** While the finished reworked Soviet Focus tree in ''No Step Back'' does not have a proper democratic path, path[[note]]the closest thing with in-game content is Bukharin's USSR[[/note]], content shows that one would've been able to select Vsevolod Ivanovich as a Tsar, and he would've been able to lead a democratic Russia as a constitutional monarchy (in the final game, Vladimir III is the only choice).
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* FanNickname: Not wanting to trip the Youtube censorship bots has made it common for video creators on the platform to use a nickname for UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. These include "Mr Schmidtler" and "Funny Moustache Man".
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** The release of the Allied Speeches pack for IV was released June 4th 2020, the 80th anniversary of UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill's "we shall fight on the beaches" speech

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** The release of the Allied Speeches pack for IV was released June 4th 2020, the 80th anniversary of UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill's "we shall fight on the beaches" speech speech.
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* BannedInChina: Because it has Tibet as an independent country with its own flag, which the PRC has banned since 1959, and so is Manchukuo, as well as having China divided among the various warlords (which contradicts China’s official history of a "United Front" against the Japanese).

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* BannedInChina: Because it has Tibet as an independent country with its own flag, which the PRC has banned since 1959, and so is Manchukuo, as well as having China divided among the various warlords (which contradicts China’s official history of a "United Front" against the Japanese). Somewhat [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] with ''IV'', as while the ''base game'' is banned, you can still buy the expansions on Steam...which conveniently include the base game.

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** Because it has Tibet as an independent country with its own flag, which the PRC has banned since 1959, and so is Manchukuo, as well as having China divided among the various warlords (which contradicts China’s official history of a "United Front" against the Japanese).
** Averted with the German releases due to NoSwastikas censorship. ''Hearts of Iron IV'' for instance blanked out the portraits of Nazi leaders with silhouettes, and Hitler himself has been renamed "Armand Hiller".

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** Averted with the German releases due to NoSwastikas censorship. ''Hearts of Iron IV'' for instance blanked out the portraits of Nazi leaders with silhouettes, and Hitler himself has been renamed "Armand Hiller".
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* BannedInChina: Because it has Tibet as an independent country with its own flag, which the PRC has banned since 1959, and so is Manchukuo, as well as having China divided among the various warlords (which contradicts China’s official history of a “United Front” against the Japanese).

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** Averted with the German releases due to NoSwastikas censorship. ''Hearts of Iron IV'' for instance blanked out the portraits of Nazi leaders with silhouettes, and Hitler himself has been renamed "Armand Hiller".

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''No Step Back'' originally planned to have an ''off-map nuclear reactor'' for Poland to represent the work Polish scientists did on the Manhattan project. Due to this being seen as too immersion breaking, as well as many fans complaining, it was scrapped.

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''No Step Back'' originally planned to have an ''off-map nuclear reactor'' for Poland to represent the work Polish scientists did on the Manhattan project. Due to this being seen as too immersion breaking, as well as many fans complaining, it was scrapped.
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Those things are just plain alt-hist and PDX routinely chalks up any relation with KR lore as purely coincidental


* AscendedFanon: Some of the vanilla AlternateHistory content added in ''Hearts of Iron IV'' [=DLCs=] appear to mirror alternate history content that were previously explored in [=HOI4=] mods, ''[[VideoGame/KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg Kaiserreich]]'' in particular.
** ''Waking the Tiger'' allows an Imperial Germany restoration (one of the potential emperors being Wilhelm II himself) and a restoration of the Empire of China under Puyi's rule.
** ''Man the Guns'' allows a second American Civil War.
** In ''Kaiserreich'', the alternate version of the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar is a MeleeATrois between loyalists of the Spanish monarchy, Catalonia anarchists, and Carlists. ''La Résistance'' reworks the base game Spanish Civil War conflict by adding events where Catalonia anarchists and Carlists may appear as other players in the conflict (as RenegadeSplinterFaction from the Republican and Nationalist side, respectively), turning the Vanilla conflict in a MeleeATrois as well.
** ''La Résistance'' also allows a French Monarchy[=/=]Empire restoration, one of the potential sovereigns being Napoléon VI, who's also a leader in the French Republic in ''Kaiserreich''.

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* AscendedFanon: Some of the vanilla AlternateHistory content added in ''Hearts of Iron IV'' [=DLCs=] appear to mirror alternate history content that were previously explored in [=HOI4=] mods, ''[[VideoGame/KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg Kaiserreich]]'' in particular.
** ''Waking the Tiger'' allows an Imperial Germany restoration (one of the potential emperors being Wilhelm II himself) and a restoration of the Empire of China under Puyi's rule.
** ''Man the Guns'' allows a second American Civil War.
** In ''Kaiserreich'', the alternate version of the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar is a MeleeATrois between loyalists of the Spanish monarchy, Catalonia anarchists, and Carlists. ''La Résistance'' reworks the base game Spanish Civil War conflict by adding events where Catalonia anarchists and Carlists may appear as other players in the conflict (as RenegadeSplinterFaction from the Republican and Nationalist side, respectively), turning the Vanilla conflict in a MeleeATrois as well.
** ''La Résistance'' also allows a French Monarchy[=/=]Empire restoration, one of the potential sovereigns being Napoléon VI, who's also a leader in the French Republic in ''Kaiserreich''.
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* FanNickname: Not wanting to trip the Youtube censorship bots has made it common for video creators on the platform to use a nickname for UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. These include "Mr Schmidtler" and "Funny Moustache Man".
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** While the finished reworked Soviet Focus tree in ''No Step Back'' does not have a proper democratic path, content shows that one would've been able to select Vsevolod Ivanovich as a Tsar, and he would've been able to lead a democratic Russia (in the final game, Vladimir III is the only choice).
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** Originally, Poland's monarchist path in ''IV'' would've only had 3 options (Friedrich Christiansen, Michael I, and Pavel Berdmondt-Avalov). However, the dev in charge of the path found time to implement a fourth option (Karl Albrecht von Habsburg).
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''No Step Back'' originally planned to have an ''off-map nuclear reactor'' for Poland to represent the work Polish scientists did on the Manhattan project. Due to this being seen as too immersion breaking, as well as many fans complaining, it was scrapped.
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* DummiedOut: ''Hearts of Iron II'' has a scripted assassination event, where the US can kill a Japanese leader. ''Arsenal Of Democracy'' comments it out and makes it unusable, but it otherwise remains.
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** The release of the Allied Speeches pack for IV was released June 4th 2020 the 60th anniversary of UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill's "we shall fight on the beaches" speech

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** The release of the Allied Speeches pack for IV was released June 4th 2020 2020, the 60th 80th anniversary of UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill's "we shall fight on the beaches" speech
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** the release of the Allied Speeches pack for IV was released June 4th 2020 the 60th anniversary of Winston Churchill's "we shall fight on the beaches" speech

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** the The release of the Allied Speeches pack for IV was released June 4th 2020 the 60th anniversary of Winston Churchill's UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill's "we shall fight on the beaches" speech
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* BannedInChina: Because it has Tibet as an independent country with its own flag, which the PRC has banned since 1959, and so is Manchukuo, as well as having China divided among the various warlords.

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* BannedInChina: Because it has Tibet as an independent country with its own flag, which the PRC has banned since 1959, and so is Manchukuo, as well as having China divided among the various warlords.warlords (which contradicts China’s official history of a “United Front” against the Japanese).

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* MeaningfulReleaseDate: ''Semper Fi'', the first {{DLC}} for ''Hearts of Iron III'', and ''Hearts of Iron IV'' were both released on the 6th of June - the exact same day as the Normandy Landings, and the day during the Battle of Midway when the Japanese cruiser ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Mikuma Mikuma]]'' was sunk.

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''Semper Fi'', the first {{DLC}} for ''Hearts of Iron III'', and ''Hearts of Iron IV'' were both released on the 6th of June - the exact same day as the Normandy Landings, and the day during the Battle of Midway when the Japanese cruiser ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Mikuma Mikuma]]'' was sunk.sunk.
** ''Waking the Tiger'' (the third DLC for ''Hearts of Iron IV''), as well as the accompanying free update, were released on 8th March (International Women's Day) of 2018. [[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/hoi4-dev-diary-pre-release-and-international-womens-day-read-the-threadmark-before-posting.1076434/ New content]] include a loading screen featuring two female Soviet snipers, a "women in the workforce" decision (if the country is at war, allowing women to replace men in factories allows to allocate more men as the available manpower for army recruitment), a "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Foster Rosie the Bren Gun Girl]]" and "Rosie the Riveter" events (the effect of taking the aforementioned "women in the workforce" decision, respectively of Canada and USA), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soong_Mei-ling Soong Mei-Ling]] (UsefulNotes/ChiangKaiShek wife) available as a Chinese minister, or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Kawashima Yoshiko Kawashima]] (a Chinese princess of Manchu origin who was raised in Japan and became a spy) available as a Manchukuo general.
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* SimilarlyNamedWorks: The series shares its name with a song by Music/{{Sabaton}}, from their 2014 album ''Heroes''. Paradox licensed "Hearts of Iron" as part of a soundtrack DLC for ''[=HoI IV=]''.

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* SimilarlyNamedWorks: The series shares its name with a song by Music/{{Sabaton}}, from their 2014 album ''Heroes''. The song was actually written as part of a promotional deal (some Sabaton fans at Paradox approached them after a show in Stockholm), and Paradox licensed "Hearts of Iron" and several other songs as part of a soundtrack DLC [=DLCs=] for ''[=HoI IV=]''.IV=]'' and ''VideoGame/EuropaUniversalis IV''.
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* MeaningfulReleaseDate Hearts of Iron IV was released on the 6th of June - the exact same day as the Normandy Landings, and the day on the Battle of Midway when the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Mikuma Japanese cruiser Mikuma]] was sunk.
** Semper Fi, first expansion to [=HoI=] III, was also released on 6th of June.

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* MeaningfulReleaseDate Hearts MeaningfulReleaseDate: ''Semper Fi'', the first {{DLC}} for ''Hearts of Iron IV was III'', and ''Hearts of Iron IV'' were both released on the 6th of June - the exact same day as the Normandy Landings, and the day on during the Battle of Midway when the [[https://en.Japanese cruiser ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Mikuma Japanese cruiser Mikuma]] Mikuma]]'' was sunk.
** Semper Fi, first expansion to [=HoI=] III, was also released on 6th
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* MeaningfulReleaseDate Hearts of Iron IV is to be released on the 6th of June - the exact same day as the Normandy Landings, and the day on the Battle of Midway when the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Mikuma Japanese cruiser Mikuma]] was sunk.

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* MeaningfulReleaseDate Hearts of Iron IV is to be was released on the 6th of June - the exact same day as the Normandy Landings, and the day on the Battle of Midway when the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Mikuma Japanese cruiser Mikuma]] was sunk.
** Semper Fi, first expansion to [=HoI=] III, was also released on 6th of June.
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* MeaningfulReleaseDate Hearts of Iron IV is to be released on the 6th of June - the exact same day as the Normandy Landings, and the day on the Battle of Midway when the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Mikuma Japanese cruiser Mikuma]] was sunk.
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* BannedInChina: Because it has Tibet as an independent country with its own flag, which the PRC has banned since 1959, and so is Manchukuo, as well as having China divided among the various warlords.
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