We at the Syrian Civil War mod for HOI4 have returned for our 9th dev diary. August and September have been the best months of our mod by far since during those two months we have finally been able to make our mod semi-playable with the introduction of units and population.

a picture of the map

strategic regions of the map

We have finished adding the population to all of the countries in the map and most states now have a state category, the map has over 1000 states and 20000 province.

About the nations:

We have 10 major nations in our mod and over 30 minor nations, the most populated nation in the map is Iran with 73 million citizen and the least populated nation being one the many rebel groups who are participating in the Syrian civil war.

The US and Russia are finally in the map being based in the Incirlik airbase and the Tartus naval facility respectively.

We have started adding industry, victory points and resources, Kuwait, Israel, Hamas, Iran and all of Cyrus being the nations completed (even tho lacking in victory points).

A picture of Cyprus victory points.

A picture of oil in the gulf.

Kuwait victory points.

About the units:

Turns out that companies for units resulted in many nations having more than 1000 unit and thus we have decided (and tested) that battalions were the best way to represent the units in our mod. The tech tree and the order of battle are being worked on daily by our team, and we have currently finished Israel, Gaza, Iran and the Afrin canton.

living the dream (Hamas units storming Israel before the Israeli order of battle was done)

A picture of a group of Israel battalion holding Tel Aviv.

Odrob Odrob Tell Aviv.

About the focus tree:

We don’t have many developers so we couldn’t put our full attention into starting the real work on the focus trees for the nations but we have two amazing focus trees, one being the Iraqi focus tree and the other being the Turkish focus tree.

Final notes:

I’m really happy about the work that has been done during the summer, seeing units on the map and playing feels so surreal, in the 23rd of September our mod will be 1 year old, when i first joined the team me and hedgehog (Allah yerhamo) thought that we’d launch our mod in March of 2018 (god we were young and hopeful then) but working on the mod this has made this the greatest year of my life, i have met and talked to so many different people from different countries and ideologies and i want to thank them for helping me out in this project and irl (i consider you guys truly to be my best friends, even the jew known as Gold).

If you want to join us in our crazy discord server then hop on here:

https://discord.gg/kDMzJWm