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If you go the Communist route in the Spanish Civil War; you'll find that Soviet help comes at a cost- making you a puppet!

To regain your independence you'll need to subvert their influence and then go to war.

What's the best way to defeat the Soviets as Spain?

Tune in at 14:00 CEST for the latest episode of our tutorial streams with @Pdx_Da9L and @bawbagfeeona.

Today we're playing as the UK, to learn about naval warfare and managing a global empire!

Watch here:

Did you know that through an event chain its possible to get Elizabeth II as the British leader, after taking the 'Kings Party' focus path?

Hint: It's a little bit of patience and a little bit of accidentally-on-purpose getting your capital bombed...

The highlights from last week's tutorial stream are now live on YouTube!

You can check them out here:

Tomorrow @Pdx_Da9L and @bawbagfeeona will continue but as a new nation- can you guess which one?

It's Mod Monday!

If you want all of your armies to have unique insignia, then GDW's Army Insignias is for you.

It adds a variety of extra icons to major nations, many of which are historically authentic.

Check it out here:

If you gave this a go over the weekend, we want to see your Caribbean Empires!

@Indyclone77 @PdxInteractive @HOI_Game although Churchill is famous for his scotch highballs

This week's achievement challenge encourages you to seek 'Our Other Place In The Sun', by capturing a Caribbean island as Imperial Germany.

Bonus points if you take the entire region!

It's time for another Mod Spotlight!

The 'Formable Nations In Setup Options' mod will allow you to release any of Hearts of Iron's formable nations from the game rules menu, making wacky and unique scenarios possible from Day 1.

Check it out here:

🚨 Dev Diary✏️

Today @podcat_paradox gives us details of the 1.9.2 Beta patch: hunting down those troublesome out-of-syncs!

This will be the last Dev Diary for a while, as the team pivots to making content for the next large update.

Read it here:

Join @Pdx_Da9L and @bawbagfeeona today for the third stream in our 'An Absolute Beginner Learns Hearts of Iron' series!

They'll be live over on twitch at 14:00 CEST later:

Happy wednesday everyone! Todays diary will be the last one for a while and will be talking about 1.9.2

For lots of people today is the first day back after the excellent opportunity-to-play-video-games known as Easter.

Achieve something spectacular in Hearts of Iron, or slip to a valiant defeat? Let us know your best recent games!

The achievement challenge for this long Easter weekend is one of the most challenging introduced in La Resistance!

To achieve 'Go ahead, Macau my day!', you'll need to form a collaboration government in China as Portugal, and have it own every core Chinese territory.