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Tinto Flavour #9 - 7th of March 2025 - Hungary

Hello, and welcome one more week to Tinto Flavour, the happy Fridays where we share with you the flavourish content of the super secret Project Caesar!

Today we will take a look at one of my favourite countries to playtest the game, the Kingdom of Hungary!:

For centuries, the great Kingdom of Hungary defended the border of Christendom from the pagans and heathens beyond it. Recent noble rebellions put this duty in danger, but thanks to the iron hand of King d’Angiò Karoly, the disgruntled nobles have been reined back under his rule and the Christian bastion is renewed and reinforced.

However, the future of Hungary is not to dwell in peace, as already new trouble is brewing in the southeast that will challenge the strength of the Regnum Marianum.

What fate awaits for the Kingdom of Hungary? Will it fall to the enemies of the faith? Or will it stand proud before the waves of those who seek its demise?

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We are currently working to have a more settled dynastic flavour, but for the moment, the House of Anjou is taking its naming from the Italian variant of it, since it’s the main House, so take it as WIP; as any UI, 2D and 3D art, as usual.

Here is Hungary:
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And its starting diplomatic situation:
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Poland is allied, while Croatia is in a personal union. Not shown on the map (yet) is that Hungary is embargoing Austria, as a result of the pact made with Bohemia.

Hungary has a few interesting interesting starting privileges:
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This is not a unique privilege, but a generic one that we created taking into account Hungary’s situation in 1337; a few countries across Europe also start with it enacted.

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We already showed this privilege in Tinto Flavour #1, if you remember.

By having it active, it may trigger this recurrent event:
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Classical flavour Parliament:
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And starting works of art:
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Here are some interesting advances for Hungary:
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This advance helps Hungary manage all the different cultures it starts with and also portrays a historical policy followed by many Hungarian kings in the Middle Ages.

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Cumans!

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Among the several options we had available to portray the infamous Black Army, we decided upon making them a regular Infantry unit. We thought about making it a unique mercenary company, but since they were usually directly on the payroll of the Hungarian kings, we thought that it would work better as a recruitable unique unit.

A couple of war-oriented advances for the Age of Reformation:
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There’s a generic Hussar cavalry unit, that is available in the Age of Absolutism. This means that Hungary gets its unique Hussar cavalry unit one age earlier. They aren’t the only country with unique Hussar units, but we will show those in future Tinto Flavour…

Also in the Age of Reformation, you will get these advances depending on which religion you follow; the first is for a Catholic Hungary, and the other two for a Protestant Hungary:
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We will explain what ‘Religious Influence’ and ‘Church Power Actions’ are in the Tinto Talks devoted to Catholicism and Protestantism, respectively. For the moment, we let you decide which religion is the True Faith, and which are Heretical and Heathen to you.

Let’s now move to the narrative content for Hungary, which is really interesting in the first years of a game, since lots of historical events happened in real life...

Soon after the start of the game, you’ll get this event, showing the power of King Károly:
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An additional Cabinet Seat during the king’s life is a really strong bonus!

This event may also trigger on a dynamic date:
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This eventually may lead to a follow-up event, which also unlocks a unique diplomatic relation:
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It doesn’t necessarily mean that both may unite, if both have an heir, as historically happened. For instance, this is from the gameplay I was doing to take the screenshots:
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During the reign of King Lajos, a few more interesting events happened:
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A very interesting event… I reported no less than 4 issues to fix when it got triggered!

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An interesting character to recruit…:
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Oh, and you may also be a secondary character in a Neapolitan plot…:
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…And much more, but that’s all for today! Next week, on Monday we will have the Tinto Maps Feedback for Arabia, and on Friday we will take a look at the Kingdom of Scotland! @SaintDaveUK and @Roger Corominas will reply instead of me for the later, as I have to take a flight that afternoon. Cheers!
 
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thank you for the flavor dev, hoping that gameplay will eventually be shown.

It would be incredibly unfortunate if the king of Poland should suddenly fall from a window and give his kingdom to Hungary when I play :p


actually what would happen if poland and hungary had a personal union, when the Lithuanian union happens? Do you get all three? does hungary get the event for poland instead? is it a dynamic event or only for poland?
 
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Question: The bulwark of Christendom advance. what if no Turkish Beylik is able to best the Romans of Byzantium? and thus the balkans remains christian? ie byzantium resurgence. Seems odd to be the bulwark when you aren't being threatened by non-christians.
 
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Can we have some information about Croatia?
What is its income, is the Ban at the head of state, and does Croatia have additional content (flavour)?
Sadly, Croatia was not one of the countries we could devote time to. Here you have the country overview:

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Polak, Węgier – dwa bratanki,
Lengyel, magyar – két jó barát,


edit: You can also include some events for-around halych succession. hungarians had claims to it and they gave up these claims (If I remember correctly, for Poland to remain neutral in hussite wars.)
 
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Great TF! However as I mentioned in my thread the flag of Hungary is wrong for the time period
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The Angevins had their own banner which should be represented in game as the Hungarian flag as long as they are ruling the country, either that or just make it the flag of Hungary until the age of discovery
The flag of Naples and the papal states could also be changed
 
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Amazing, truly. It seems Hungary will be one of the OP states in the game, which tbf it was at the time. It was a golden age for a reason.

Also including Toldi is perfection itself, thank you guys!
 
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Shouldn't theMonetary Fiefs privilege, which accounts for the Crown not giving land to the Nobility, give the Nobility less power, not more? And shouldn't it make them unhappy rather than happier?

Or have I misunderstood what the text is trying to say.
 
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Are union of the crown policy usually made to last for only one king lifespan, or do they usually stay between their heirs until one eventually has no heir ?

Also I hope it was "exploit-tested", and you can't just revoke the policy without the other country having some sort of lowered trust / opinion (even worse than what they'd have if you never took the policy and the option, so not just removing the bonus to trust and opinion the reform gives in itself)
 
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Hope you rework the Carpathian mountain wastelands in a way so that they get coloured without the need to own both sides of the mountains like you did with the Pyrenees
 
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With the new personal union mechanism you showed us in a Tinto Talk, who would be the "leader" of the union chosen by the parliament in general? Hungary or Poland? Can the player voluntarily do everything to kill himself and thus have a union with the other country or is this not a feasible strategy?
 
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1) Will Jadwiga (Hedwig d'Anjou) show up via the Polish-Hungarian union event?
2) Idea: add an unhistorical formable for a Poland-Hungary Commmonwealth
3) ctrl+f Transylvania ctrl+f Transylvania ctrl+f Transylvania ctrl+f Transylvania ctrl+f Transylvania WHERE IS TRANSYLVANIA
It's a releasable country - I just did it and took this in-game screenshot:
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