Hearts Of Iron IV’s new expansion lets you design your own planes Rock Paper Shotgun Support us Join our newsletter Visit our store Sign in / Create account If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Hearts Of Iron IV’s new expansion lets you design your own planes Or go it neutral as Switzerland News by CJ Wheeler News Reporter Published on June 7, 2022 10 comments Grand strategy global war game Hearts Of Iron IV will be engaged by new expansion By Blood Alone later this year, Paradox Interactive have announced. The new pack will let you design your very own warplanes, while also indulging alternate history fans with its focus trees for Italy, Ethiopia and, interestingly, neutral Switzerland. Check out the announcement trailer below. The new aircraft designer tools allow for the chance to muck about creating a variety of different planes. Paradox give the examples of emphasising speed with "nimble interceptors" or ramping up destructive capabilities by crafting yourself a fleet of "durable bombers". Chocks away, chaps. Hearts Of Iron IV's three new focus trees are Italy, Ethopia and Switzerland, which could all lead to some interestingly divergent scenarios. You could take on Europe as Mussolini's fascists or choose to restore the Italian monarchy, or battle the Italians and win as Ethiopia under Haile Selassie. Switzerland is probably the stand-out here, being a landlocked neutral country surrounded by the great powers of France, Germany and Italy. There's also some intriguing new options in the form of Peace Conferences. These allow you to set up demilitarised areas of the map, even to the level of entire nations. You can bid on the ships of defeated powers or claw back enemy resources and factories in the form of reparations. If enemies generate enough tension around the globe then you can embargo them too, preventing trade. It's not yet clear whether By Blood Alone will be part of Paradox's DLC subscription service for Hearts Of Iron IV, which first launched in February, but we'll update this article as soon as we hear more. While you're waiting for the expansion you could always use fan tools to hop through Paradox's various strategy games from Crusader Kings 3 all the way through to Hearts Of Iron IV, as Alice0 highlighted. Hearts Of Iron IV: By Blood Alone will be landing on Steam at some point in 2022. Paradox say it'll be accompanied by a major free update to the game. Synchronise watches. More News Jack King-Spooner's next handcrafted game has a teaser demo out Judero brings chat and action in the Scottish Borders Alice O'Connor 17 hours ago 1 If you were hoping for any Overwatch 2 balance changes then you'll have to wait until season two The next season begins in December CJ Wheeler 18 hours ago 3 The Dead Space remake will chuck random Necromorphs at you as you wander the Ishimura In space, no one can hear you proper bricking it CJ Wheeler 18 hours ago 8 Valve register mysterious new Neon Prime trademark in the US It doesn’t seem to be for a particularly colourful Steam Deck CJ Wheeler 20 hours ago 11 Latest Articles What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Alice O'Connor an hour ago 21 Past Wordle answers Here's an archive of previous Wordle words Ollie Toms 2 hours ago 1 Wordle answer today (Saturday 15 October) Hints and the answer to today's Wordle word Rebecca Jones 9 hours ago Overwatch 2 hero tier list Which are the best heroes in Overwatch 2? Ollie Toms 16 hours ago Supporters Only You're probably better than me at One Many Nobody You go on without… uh, you? Sin Vega 17 hours ago Supporter podcast - The Nate Files episode 13: dry bones Bad science is also FUN science! Alice Bell 18 hours ago Japanese dating show Love Wagon has surprising parallels with Yakuza and Persona My new obsession Ed Thorn 2 days ago If you're hankering after Bayonetta 3, Valkyrie Elysium might be a good substitute It's not out on PC until next month, but the console demo has been a surprise charmer Katharine Castle 1 week ago 4 We've been talking, and we think that you should wear clothes Total coincidence, but we sell some clothes Buy RPS stuff here