It's that special time of year again, the time of the DLC drop for Hearts of Iron 4. "But there was a DLC released in February," you say. Well, the special time of year can come twice in the same year, dear reader. But what differentiates Battle for the Bosporus from a DLC like La Résistance is that the previous expansion added universal features for the game, like armored cars and the addition of the espionage system.
Battle for the Bosporus is more akin to one of EU4's smaller DLC packs where they only include updates for a specific few nations. Think Third Rome, or Rule Britannia.
Indeed, nothing about the game has changed from Battle for the Bosporus except for the focus tree updates for Turkey, Bulgaria, and Greece. Romania and Yugoslavia also get a free update with this release, but as that update's free, I won't be discussing them here except when relevant to the other three.
TURKEY
So, Turkey's new focus tree is just stupidly huge. I had to massively zoom out in order to get the whole thing in a screenshot, and you can see from the image that nothing is really visible. So, to summarize what you can't see, you can expect a decently expanded version of the 'Four Paths' we've come to expect from modern focus trees, with branches for Fascism, Communism, Democracy, or an 'Unaligned' route, as well as the obligatory separate military tree, which I'll talk about first.
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