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Tinto Flavour #30 - 4th of July 2025 - France

Hello, and welcome one more Friday to Tinto Flavour, the happy days in which we take a look at the flavour content of Europa Universalis V!

Today, we will take a look at France! Let’s start without further ado:

The death of King Charles IV without a male heir in 1328 marked the end of Capet rule over the Kingdom of France, resulting in the coronation of King Philippe VI de Valois, a relative from a former cadet branch of the dynasty. However, it has been contested by King Edward III Plantagenet of England, on the pretext that while the Salic Law of France forbids the passing of the throne to a female successor, it does not forbid the inheritance through a female line. As the son of Dame Isabelle ‘the She-Wolf’ Capet, the last living sibling of King Charles IV, King Edward III might claim the throne of France as his birthright.

The tension over both countries has worsened over the past years, as our hospitality of the exiled young ruler of the Scots, King David II de Bruce, has enraged the English court, whose Balliol puppet seeks to seize that crown. As a response, King Edward III has also recently granted refuge to Sire Robert d’Artois, who escaped calls to face trial in Paris for his attempts to seize the County of Artois. There are rumors that Sire Robert is even encouraging the disgruntled King Edward III to press his claim to the throne of France militarily.

Should relations continue to deteriorate towards a boiling point, King Philippe VI may require the support of his subjects, although more than one ambitious Appanage hailing from the old royal line may seize on the opportunity to demand greater privileges, proving a greater threat to the stability of the crown than any invading claimant. The upcoming years will be consequential for the future of France, having to face the external English menace and the proud French lords at once. Will the country fall to the fake pretenders, or emerge as the main power in Europe?
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A cool new feature of EU5: We have a ‘fixed DNA’ system, so certain important historical characters have their faces pre-scripted to look as close as possible to their historical portraits. We have already implemented this for important starting historical rulers, such as Philippe VI of France, and other important characters that can appear via event, e.g. Martin Luther.
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As usual, please consider all UI, 2D and 3D Art as WIP.

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France is already the biggest country in Europe in 1337, so I’ve opted to share with you 3 zoom levels today. In the second one, you can see how the forts look like at this moment.​

The diplomacy of France is quite interesting at start:
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Some of the subjects are regular vassals, while others are a unique subject type, Appanages:
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As its the starting situation of its government:
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The French Nobility is a bit powerful, isn’t it?​

These are the starting unique reforms and privileges of France:
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Its flavour-named Parliament, the États Généraux:
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A bunch of unique advance, of which I’m going to show one per age, as usual:
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As a Tier 1 country, France has a proper number of Dynamic Historical Events:
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Here you have some of them:
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This event will start an event chain about the fate of Étienne Marcel, Provost of Paris…

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And this one another event chain about Bertrand du Guesclin.

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France may also suffer a unique disaster in the Age of Reformation, the French Wars of Religion:
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More actions and events will pop up after some time.​

It will also open this Reformation Edicts, a unique Law for France, as one of the means to resolve its disaster:
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And here are some more events for the late game:
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Another guy who will have his own event chain.

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Event Versailles.png

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… And much more, but that’s all for today! Next week we’ll have a Tinto Maps Feedback on Monday, a Tinto Talks on Wednesday, and Tinto Flavour on Friday:
  • Tinto Maps Feedback for South East Asia.
  • Wednesday -> Tinto Talks about Tonalism, the new Mesoamerican religious group.
  • Friday -> Tinto Flavour about the Aztecs.
And also remember, you can wishlist Europa Universalis V now! Cheers!
 

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Pavía said:
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I truly hope there is some kind of law regarding the parliement of Paris. As this event mention his priviledge were stripped following the Frondes, but reestablished in 1774, and the troubled relationship between the crown and the parliement had a fair bit of impact on internal french affairs. Also i hope fighting the Fronds will once again cause a slight disaster given all that happened during that large scale revolt.
 
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dhfusd said:
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The UI is still incomplete, right? For people who are trying the game for the first time, even if the system is good, they'll be disappointed and critical if the UI isn't appealing
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As usual, please consider all UI (...) WIP.
 
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Jjjace55 said:
Will France have variant flags? I expect like the revolutionary one, as that was represented already in eu4, however I believe France like quite often switched between white and blue and the amount of flour de lis
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Yes:
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SaintDaveUK said:
Placeholders for cities and towns, they give the game a feel similar to the Imperator atlas mapmode imo. Silver stars are province capitals and gold stars are country capitals. As you notice they are WIP in terms of design and size
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I think the Atlas mode worked better for having a darker background that made the symbols pop out more.

I prefer the system in EUIV where we have flagpoles to represent the capital, with a crown being over the players capital. I think a 3d model like that is much easier to recognize. To keep up with the new theme, capital flagposts can be gold, while the province capitals can be smaller and silver.

It's also just has more synergy when looking at a physical terrain map where we are seeing the building models- like we're zooming in down from satellite, and we see the army models moving about.
 
Baphomet enjoyer said:
It says either have the treaty of nantes or have the situation last beyond 25 years or have over 50 stability and 90 religious unity. Having nantes is doesn't require anything else to end it
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Hmm, there might be a bug there, we'll investigate it.
 
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Sully0422 said:
In honor of us Americans putting it to the British (a pastime of around 65 nations across the globe) can we get a sneak peak of any event regarding American Independence, or if you aren’t able, any event regarding any colony’s independence? Happy 4th!
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To keep it in theme, something about Marquis de Lafayette (one of the few honorary American Citizens).
 
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I don't like that you have the unique localised parliament names, but then (Parliament) is written right next to them anyway, it kind of breaks the immersion. You might say that it needs to be there because people won't recognise names that are obscure or very unique to that language, but isn't that why the estate icon is included whenever they're mentioned with their unique names? Why not just do the same for parliament?
 
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Nice to see that you gave Faucigny and Sallanches to the Dauphiny but make sure to give Savoy a core for them at the start since they used to rule over them in the past, that said I don't understand why you gave them Vienne
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Savoy owns the southern half of those two locations since 1033 so the setup is obviously simplified here (same for the three locations of Thoire & Villars given to everyone else). An accurate setup would require new locations (Beauvoir from the southern half of Vienne & La Tour) and new tags : Thoire, also probably Vienne & Geneve (the bishoprics, the counts did not hold those).
 
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Is there any flavour for the unification of the French culture?
 
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Pavía said:
In the second one, you can see how the forts look like at this moment.
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I can't say I like those oversized castles. I know it's meant to clearly show where forts are located, but I think I'd prefer I:R system where there are small symbols instead of oversized 3D castles.

The rest of the map is awesome.
 
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Is there no Gendarmes regiment type?
Do the French have any special regiment?
 
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