By Blood Alone coming to Hearts of Iron IV a new expansion for the game on Linux, Mac, and Windows PC. Due to the work of developer Paradox Development Studio. Working to find its way onto Steam and Humble Store.
Explore new alternate histories of humanity’s most titanic struggle in By Blood Alone. Which is a new expansion for Hearts of Iron IV, the grand strategy wargame about World War II. Also adding three new major National Focus Trees. By Blood Alone offers a series of enticing what-if stories. So that player can write new histories of ideological and military struggle.
Now scheduled to release on September 27th. By Blood Alone also centers on the political and military fortunes of Italy. The historical path, as always, is open to those who want to relive the dramatic years. Doing so before and during the war. While players engineer the end of Mussolini’s rule through a socialist revolution or a strong monarchy.
Hearts of Iron IV: By Blood Alone trailer
Other features of Hearts of Iron IV: By Blood Alone include:
- New Ethiopian Focus Tree: Defy the odds to defeat the Italian invader. Or simply resist the conqueror from abroad using unique Government in Exile abilities.
- New Swiss Focus Tree: Surrounded by France, Germany, and Italy. The mountain nation of Switzerland finds strength in its neutrality. While balancing competing factions and motifs from the great powers.
- New Peace Conference Options: Demilitarize zones of the map or entire nations. In By Blood Alone you can also bid on the capital ships of defeated powers. Or simply claim control of enemy resources or factories as damages.
- Aircraft Designer: Design and build your own planes. Right from agile interceptors that prioritize speed to durable. Plus bombers built to unload tons of ruin from high above.
- Unit Medals: A log of each division’s achievements lets you track their performance. By Blood Alone also allows you to award medals to those that have served well.
- Embargo Interaction: Embargo your enemies with new diplomatic deals. Stop them from trading with you if they have built enough world tension.
- New Unit Models: More than 20 new pieces of unit art for Italian, Ethiopian, and Swiss armies.
- New Plane Models: 67 new plane models.
- 12 New Music Tracks
As usual, the release of By Blood Alone will come with a major update to Hearts of Iron IV. Due to be available for free for everyone who owns the game on Linux, Mac, and Windows PC. Making its way to Steam and Humble Store. With support for Linux, Mac, and Windows PC.
Right now you can get the base game with a 75% discount on Humble Store. The expansion’s also have a discount with a 50% average.