"Bears and Bandits" 2.1

✢ New focus trees and content for:
- Polar Bear Communities
- Free Territory of Adelart
✢ Additions:
- Added Polar Bear racial technologies.
- Added new main menu art and music.
- Added a new loading screen.
- Added update highlights in the main menu.
- Added new military leaders for Maregypt, Les Meridiennes, Vrystaat and New Mareland.
- Added new country leaders for Hyenia, Mozzi, Manedalusia and Les Meridiennes.
- Added portraits for Council of Sailors in Skynavia and Trochanter in Our Town.
- Added generic portraits for harpies and yeti.
- Added equipment icons for Polar Bears and Penguins.
- Added concern icons for numerous countries.
- Added a concern for Saddle Arabian countries.
- Added war exhaustion mechanic for Changeling war with Polar Bears.
- Added a new custom GUI that replaces vanilla capitulation events.
- Added unique responses to various Equestrian news events for Chiropterra.
- Added Grover VI "coronation" event for supremacy Romau.
- Added communist flag for Icepaw.
- Added a new victory point in Equestria.
- Added a generic griffon air chief advisor icon.
- Added ace icons for yeti.
✢ Changes:
- Reworked country selection screen.
- Reworked some flags for Herzland, Greifwald and Abyssinia.
- Reworked news event images for successful Aquileian Revolution and the Abyssinian crisis.
- Reworked portraits for Silverstream in Hippogriffia and Trubach in House Avian.
- Adjusted borders of some states and relocated some victory points in Equestria and Stalliongrad.
- Countries in the Aquileian periphery now use either Aquileian or Herzlander equipment icons and portraits, rather than generic ones.
- Updated leader portrait, flag and color of Macigena.
- Swapped traits of two New Mareland advisors, Quick March and Thunder Boom.
- Replaced some generic advisor and concern icons in River Republic and Firtree Villages.
- "The Jungle is a Weapon" zebra technology now unlocks a unique tactic.
- Feudal Levies in Angriver are now irregular infantry.
- Changelings can no longer establish protectorates while occupying Polar Bears.
- AI Pridea and Vinovia now always go monarchist while AI Rila and Westkeep always go republican.
- Replaced decision to open Aquileian army GUI with a custom button.
- Increased the effects of Wittenland spell decisions.
- Colthaginian mercenaries in Wittenland are now Chargers rather than regular infantry.
- Base year ahead research penalty changed from 2.5 to 2.25.
- Equestrian focuses no longer check for World Tension, and the War Support requirements have been increased.
- Swapped traits of ELF naval concerns.
- If non-aligned Flowena is guaranteed or goes neutral, it will now leave any faction it is in.
- Wittenland can no longer redeem lich Silver Star.
- Adjusted Changeling events about demanding things from Polar Bears.
- Equestria no longer gets war support from a news event about Changeling mobilization.
- If Evi is formed by a communist country, it now has red rather than green color.
- Increased size of Alwani's starting army.
- Klugetown state is now claimed by Abyssinia and Maregypt.
- Skynavia can no longer get cores on countries outside of Griffonia with the exceptions of Nova Griffonia and Griffon Frontier.
- Reduced bonuses from Talarayi's "The Golden City" national spirit.
- Skyfall now has a level 10 naval base.
- Relocated some factories from Petershoof to other states.
- Klugetown now starts with slave economy law.
- Arantiga, Falcor and Talouse now leave the faction they're in if they switch to supremacy or communism.
- Hippogriffia and Macawia now use griffon ace icons.
- Changed Haukland's instant coring to compliance coring.
✢ Fixes:
- Changed the requirements of the "Thermal Signature Detected" award as they weren't working.
- Hopefully fixed issues related to Cadance not becoming leader of liberated Crystal Empire.
- Fixed case-sensitive character GFX definitions.
- Fixed which focus unlocks Gerhard advisor in Yale.
- Fixed republican Romau being able to ally republican Angriver before Bluhm wins the elections.
- Fixed issue where Wittenland spell decisions could be permanently blocked.
- Barrad should no longer get content about the Race for the Bomb.
- Colthaginian concern exclusive to the militarist path is no longer visible by default.
- Fixed a concern icon in Aquileia.
- Colthage focuses about preparing for war with Hippogriffia are bypassed if they already own Zumidian states.
- Fixed Farbrook and Firtrees being able to get 6 research slots.
- Harmonic Tarrin no longer forms a faction if it already is in one.
- Fixed vanilla reunification events appearing for Colthage.
- Fixed Wingbardy not giving Tarrin states to Francistria upon puppeting.
- Fixed event about Abyssinia seizing Wingbardian colony when the civil war begins not triggering.
- Fixed issues with weapon technologies.
- Fixed issue with Wittenland always being communist when puppeted by a republic.
- Increased sickness and wounded chance reductions from some traits to ensure the chance is reduced to 0.
- Fixed Chiropterra being able to steal generals from Equestria without warning.
- Fixed Nova Griffonia's response to Teafeather assassination news event.
- Fixed the allies of the guarantator not guaranteeing Flowena.
- Fixed Black Claw Grover coronation event happening more than once.
- Fixed Skystar in Hippogriffia not losing her royal title upon becoming country leader in the communist path.
- Fixed issues with Hippogriffia's navy without Man the Guns DLC.
- Fixed some cruiser module slots.
- Removed straits in the Great Lakes as they caused various issues.
- Aquileian anti-submarine ships are now actually equipped to fight submarines.
- Improved tooltips for Southeast Equestrian railroad decisions.
- Fixed ace pilot events not being minor events.
- Lunar Empire focuses no longer require ownership of impassable states.
- Fixed Raft's AI allies leaving the faction in Hippogriffia.
- Fixed Hippogriffia being able to get wargoal on Chiropterra when it shouldn't.
- Hippogriffia should no longer get an invitation to their own wargames.
- Fixed bypass on "A Harmonist Sufrit" focus in Hippogriffia.
- Fixed AI path game rules not working for Tobuck.
- Fixed problem with Zarantia defence pact decision.
- Fixed issue with Skyfall plane focus.
- Dehumanized some GFX.
- Miscellaneous bugfixes and improvements.
- Miscellaneous localisation fixes.

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