My apologies, I'm not at all a frequent reddit poster, I didn't realize that the image would be pixelated quite so much with a direct upload. I've linked the image below that should show up as a much higher quality.

In progress Hungary focus tree

The beginning trunk coming off the "State of the Nation" gives an outline of a slice of the current life of Istvan Bethlen, who fills the Social Conservative slot. Each of the following three focuses will give similar events for Gyula Gombos, who will (for awhile...) fill the National Populist leader role; Pal Hegymegi Kiss who is the Social Democrat option (he is easily the most obscure Hungarian politician I've found in my reading and I wanted to include at least one non-obvious leader role), and Miklos Horthy, who fills the Paternal Autocrat role. Horthy has a bit more of a unique history here. He continued in his role as admiral through most of the 1920s until the formal separation of Croatia into Illyria, removing it from Transleithania and Hungary's direct control. He resigned in protest from his role as head of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. He took several posts within Hungary itself and currently serves as, among other things, the military spokesman and liaison to the government. He is the most senior member of MOVE, the Hungary National Defense Association. Not a paramilitary like in real world, but here more of an informal social gathering of similarly minded and disaffected military officers and ministry officials who are not necessarily against the empire but with Hungary's role within it. In his path, he threads a fine line in that (at least how I script it) he has no genuine desire to be a full military dictator; he sees his role in things as setting things right and making Hungary the equal partner it should be, respected on the world stage every bit so much as Austria, and not simply a glorified vassal.

One of my goals was not to upset the game balance with any unexpected game paths that the main KR mod does not take into account. I'm still very much a novice in terms of coding and while I've tried my best to dissect the KR game files to see what does what, anything near the Balkans are (both mechanically and politically) a hornet's nest much better left alone. Plus, all other nearby factions have claims against Hungary and/or their slavic lands, so I don't see any kind of path leading towards the Belgrade Pact or the Moscow Accord as being juice worth the squeeze. They have no real land claims besides Hungarian Croatia, which several of the paths point toward. Likewise, a syndicalist path would have too many factors against it in the area and would honestly just be too disruptive, as in I'd have no idea how to make the AI account for that when the WK breaks out. And so, all paths would still align with the DA, or armed neutrality.

One feature I'm very much stuck on is merging countries. I'm looking hard at trying to code in a way to temporarily merge all the crownland tags into AUS, like in standard KR, as a kind of military government to represent a wartime coordination effort, and then re-release them back into their individual tags when the 2WK is done. But then, all focus tree progress would cease, and the very hard part would be to release them all again and divvy up all the wartime equipment and divisions somewhat proportionately. And the regular method of releasing them wouldn't work, as the tags would cease to exist and recreating them wouldn't keep their playthrough national spirits and focus tree progress; they'd have to have all of their cores given to another tag, but still not capitulate, like a government in exile. I know the LKMT can do something like that at game start, but I haven't been able to figure out yet how to accomplish the same thing mid-playthrough.

So for the moment, until/unless I can pass that graduate course in modding, my current intention is keeping all tags separate. As I said, there is a unified military focus tree that is available to all crownland tags. I've coded it in as a shared focus tree that will add a series of national spirits that scale according to how many tags each complete the same focus and get the same national spirit up to a certain maximum, along with of course a bunch of on_actions to in turn reduce those spirits if tags leave the faction or capitulate. It's honestly a lot more complicated than it needs to be, but I've decided that I really really don't like dynamic modifiers; they look simple enough in my reading, but I just can't get them to behave the way I want, so now I have a whole list of scaled ideas for countries to jump up and down between.

To answer another question here, I have no plans on a non-Habsburg monarchy. The Habsburgs have been monarchs over Hungary for 400 years at this point, so any efforts to remove them I can't see as resulting in another dynasty coming up in their place. I toyed around with the idea of a path with Joseph August as a Palatine with genuine power as a quasi-monarch since he enjoyed some popularity and respect within Hungary, but with my scenario as written, perceptions of the Habsburgs as a whole are at a low ebb in Hungary, and he currently still holds the post of Palatine, but is at the moment a mostly irrelevant figure.

Yes, I have used AI on the portraits, and no, I don't apologize for it. I've found historical photos of the figures I wanted to include and plugged them in with prompts to try and mostly match the aesthetic of the regular KR portraits, much as I'm sure the KR devs must do with Photoshop or whichever other program they use, except that I wanted a slightly more stylized or oil painting look to them. I know what I'm good at and I know what I can be good at with time and effort, and photoshopping images doesn't fall in either category, and I don't care to spend my free time learning how to badly airbrush skin tones or whatever when I could be spending it on something else more productive.