New mod bringing CK2 to the year 1521, using the Umbra Spherae Reborn map (this means covering the whole world). In the future there will be more bookmarks. Can be found on Moddb with /emperor-kings and on Patreon and Buy Me a Coffe on /emperorkings. Please support so that I can focus on this project!
TIME OF EMPEROR KINGS
In the early 16th century many empires appeared in Eurasia. There was, of course, the concentration of territories through inheritance for Charles von Habsburg, alongside Spanish and Portuguese maritime expansion. In 1520 the Ottoman sultan Suleiman also rose to power, and would conquer Hungary and Mesopotamia as well as challenging Iberian rule over the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. In Persia the Safavid Shah Ismail had forged an impressive empire, and to his East the Mughals were beginning to emerge as an empire that would encompass most of India.
The Holy Roman Empire was breaking up, but this eventually led to the rise of some German states, with many adopting the Protestant and Reformist branches of Christianity. France was powerful enough so as to challenge the Habsburgs, occupying Burgundy and Northern Italy. England saw the reign of Henry VIII, a king who would certainly shake up his realm. Denmark, Norway and Sweden are united under the Kalmar Union. Poland-Lithuania and the Russian Muscovites dominated extensive territories in Eastern Europe. However, to the East both Slavic realms have a multitude of Tatar hordes that never tire of raiding. The Songhai beat the last of the Mali Empire and took control of the important gold mines, also expanding across the Saharan trade routes.
In conclusion, it is an interesting time for CK2 players.
Features include:
TIME OF EMPEROR KINGS
In the early 16th century many empires appeared in Eurasia. There was, of course, the concentration of territories through inheritance for Charles von Habsburg, alongside Spanish and Portuguese maritime expansion. In 1520 the Ottoman sultan Suleiman also rose to power, and would conquer Hungary and Mesopotamia as well as challenging Iberian rule over the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. In Persia the Safavid Shah Ismail had forged an impressive empire, and to his East the Mughals were beginning to emerge as an empire that would encompass most of India.
The Holy Roman Empire was breaking up, but this eventually led to the rise of some German states, with many adopting the Protestant and Reformist branches of Christianity. France was powerful enough so as to challenge the Habsburgs, occupying Burgundy and Northern Italy. England saw the reign of Henry VIII, a king who would certainly shake up his realm. Denmark, Norway and Sweden are united under the Kalmar Union. Poland-Lithuania and the Russian Muscovites dominated extensive territories in Eastern Europe. However, to the East both Slavic realms have a multitude of Tatar hordes that never tire of raiding. The Songhai beat the last of the Mali Empire and took control of the important gold mines, also expanding across the Saharan trade routes.
In conclusion, it is an interesting time for CK2 players.
Features include:
- The trade system will have expanded routes, new buildings (like spices and slaves trade posts) and new mechanics, so for example the Portuguese will be able to divert trade by controlling key posts.
- There will be new cultures. The mixing of Turkics, Mongols and others produced cultures like the Tatars and the Kazakhs. The Caucasian cultures are grouped together, outside the Byzantine group, and I've added the Circassians. The Berbers (and Canarian guanches) are a group separate from the Arabs, resulting in Berbers, Maghreb Arabs and Bedouins coexisting in North Africa.
- New government systems. For example, some empires of the time had systems that were not quite feudal, with larger bureaucracies, drawing officials from non-aristocratic families or appointing and revoking viceroys frequently. For example the Spanish and the Ottomans will have a bunch of viceroys (or pashas). Sunnis can have 100 wives so the Ottomans can have their harems - why did CK2 need to make having concubines and wives mutually exclusive?
- Sunnis, Turks, Tatars, Berbers and Maghreb Arabs each have been enabled to loot, be seafarers and navigate rivers. There is the "Muslim corsair", similar to the viking one (soon there will be Christian ones too). That is to represent North African corsairs in the Mediterranean and Tatar and Turkish raids across the Black Sea and the Eurasian Steppes.
- New Protestant, Reformist and Anglican "heresies", which will have specific expansion mechanics. The Eastern Churches now have historical leaders and a physical church to live in.
- As much as possible, I am trying to make it feel continuous from the end of the game; for example some family trees go all the way back, from the Habsburgs to the Ottomans to the Solomonids (Ethiopia).
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