Historical Portraits для Hearts of Iron IV

✉ Lastest news!
A compatibility submod for Historical Portraits and Expert AI 4.0 is now available.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1880087214
1. Introduction
✪ This mod replaces all historical character's portraits with black and white historically accurate photos.
VANILLA
HISTORICAL PORTRAITS
Historical characters with unique portraits
Historical characters with generic portraits
*Fictional characters with generic portraits
Historical characters with generic portraits
*Fictional characters with generic portraits
➜ Photos for all
➜ Photos for all
➜ unchanged (except for a dozen, replaced with historical characters and their photos)
*Fictional (Randomly generated) characters replacement is not the point of the mod.
☛ Currently, the mod contains more than 1500 photos. I wanted to match the 1936-1945 period (as long as I could find photos - photos are integrated for 99% of the characters - there are black and white drawnings when photos lack, for a couple ones).
For example, you will see that the French democratic leader, Edouard Daladier, looks in my mod a lot older than he does in the vanilla game (his picture was inspired by a photo taken in 1927 - the photo I found was taken around 1938). Photos for the leaders of the decolonized countries match the independance date (as for Western Sahara with his leader born in 1948 - Paradox chose leaders on the same criteria).
2. Mod’s architecture
version 1. POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS
complete
- ★ Portraits for all historical leaders of every country.
- Leader replacement:
- Lebanon == When Lebanon becomes independent, the leader is now Riad Al Solh (who was indeed prime minister from 1943 to 1945), and not Hashim al-Atassi as in vanilla game. (I didn't pick the president Bechara El Khouri.)
- Ethiopia == Fitawrari Yeebio Woldai (historical character) replaced by Abebe Aregai (more historically accurate).
- Siam == Plaek Phibunsongkhram is now the leader of the fascist party of Siam for the 1936 start, instead of the random generic one (he is already leader in vanilla version but only for the 1939 start).
Fake persons with generic portraits ➜ HISTORICAL leaders:
- Italy == Victor Emmanuel III is now the non-aligned leader (replacing the generic)
-Kenya == Dedan Ngwale (generic) replaced by Dedan Kimathi (real leader since independance).
- Mozambique == Eduardo Tsonga (generic) replaced by Eduardo Mondlane.
- Rhodesia == Marcus James Hugins (generic) replaced by Godfrey Huggins (prime minister).
- West Germany == Klaus Klauser (generic) replaced by Otto-Ernst Remer.
- East Germany == Jake Richter (generic) replaced by Lothar Bolz. Fredauer (generic) replaced by Wilhelm Külz.
- Banovina of Croatia == Ivan Subasic is now the leader of the democratic party of the Banovina of Croatia, instead of the random generic one.
- Name changes:
- Egypt == Ahmed Hasayn >> Ahmed Hussein.
- Congo/Zaïre == François Tolenga >> François Olenga; Lumumba Lomendja >> Patrice Lumumba Lomendja.
- Jordan == Hashim Kheir >> Hashim Pasha Khair.
- Switzerland == Ernest Béuin >> Ernest Béguin.
- Missing photos:
I was not able to find any photo for:
- Congo == David Manera: fake ?
- Ethiopia == Fitawrari Yeebio Woldai.
- Montenegro == Novica Radovic, maybe I'll replace him by Krsto Zrnov Popovic.
- Iceland == Johannes Valursson: generic ?
- Lebanon == Melick Yarad and Rami Sarraff.
- Palestine == Bulus Farah.
- Israel) == Itzhak Gaster and Rudolf Szabo: generics?
- Jordan == Saeed Ahmadi.
- Egypt == Hosni al-Arabi.
version 2. GENERALS AND ADMIRALS
complete
- ★ Portraits for all historical generals and admirals of every country.
- Inaccurate photos (meaning from wrong periods):
Admiral Vladimir Kasatonov (SOV) is maybe too old on the photo, but I can't find another one. Same for Augusto Rademaker (Brazil) and Ma Hongbin (Xibei San Ma), while Wang Ming (Communist China) is too young.
Mexico == Plutarco Calles (1930), Heliodoro Charis (1929), Luis Farrel Cubillas (1929).
version 3. POLITICAL ADVISORS, THEORISTS, MILITARY CHIEFS and HIGH MILITARY COMMANDERS
work in progress (not completed before several months). For the moment, France, Germany, Soviet Union, Britain, USA, Italy, Japan, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Netherlands and Mexico are done.
- ★ Portraits for all historical ministers of every country.
- Name changes:
- Few minor changes, like for Philippe Leclerc Hauteclocque (French advisor) > renamed Philippe Leclerc as he is already has this name when he is general. Moreover french persons know him as "Leclerc".
- Missing photos:
- Australia == Fergus Foster Munro
- Doubts (photos might be wrong):
- New Zealand == J. C. Nichols : is he Jesse Clyde Nichols ?
- Inaccurate photos (meaning wrong periods):
- Amadeo Bordiga (1924), Victor-Emmanuel III (1930), Hector Douglas Mcgregor (1961), James Fairbairn (too young), Jack Piddington (too old).
Netherlands == Saul de Groot (HOL, later than 1945) and Anton de Kom (around 1930).
Mexico == Bartolomé Garcia Correa (around 1925), Aaron Saenz (around 1930), Eduardo Hay (around 1914), Enrique Estrada (around 1922 or 1925), Luis Montes de Oca (1950), Agustin Olachea Aviles (unknown), Jeronimo Siller (too young), Héctor Meixueiro Alexandres (possibly too young).
3. Current version, compatibility and supported languages
Current version: 3 (work in progress).
✓ Compatible with 1.8 and complete for all DLC.
✓ Works also without DLC.
✓ Supported languages: English, French, German, Spanich, Russian, Polish and Brazilian portuguese.
× NOT IRONMAN COMPATIBLE
× Known incompatibilities:
- total history changer mods like Road to 56, BlackICE, *Expert IA, Better post-war europe,
- Beautiful States, HOI4 ULTRA (Historical Industry Project)...and any other mod that modify portraits, german decisions, USA events or ideas.
*If you want to make it compatible with Expert AI 4.0, use this submod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1880087214
4. FAQ
See the dedicated page
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For more historical mods, check out our mods here :
Historical Speeches & Songs Decisions: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1730683832
Historical National Focus Dates: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1730960552
Historical Leaders Replacement Events: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1903875242
Historical Leaders Replacement Events (HP version): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1903883019
I'd like to thank:
- @thegooksofhazzard (player), who helped me to understand how to modify portraits files and how to use photoshop for it.
- « L’Ecole Supérieure de Guerre » (French Superior War School) who sent me a photo of the General Pierre Paul Etienne Alombert Goget from the general career’s own file, kept in the « Service Historique de défense » (Historical Service of Defense).
- @BsBellamy who reread, translated and corrected this text.
- @LoupVert [11RDP] who helped me to update perfectly the mod to the 1.6.2 version and for dozens of bug fixes.