LATE GAME.
With several 1000 hours on Crusader Kings series, you may for the positive or the negative, call me a very interested player. I also do read Medieval History a lot, as a hobby. I honestly think we need to expand the thinking beyond the fall of Constantinople towards 1485-1530 range to consider what should be the new real end date of the game. English history generally considers Battle of Bosworth Hill and the Death of Richard III as the final date of English medieval history. Portugal and Spain would lean to consider that to be the end of Reconquista, death of the Perfect Prince, Columbus, Tordesillas Treaty, so we are talking about 1485-1497 here for these. HRE could be considered medieval, in the sense of Catholic Monopoly over Western Europe until 1517-1530. Medici had its last pope around 1520, for Italy. The interplay France and Henry VIII, and Emperor Charles of Habsburg is also a real interesting period when it comes to an end date, with all the centralized roleplaying and strategy potential there. As Europe had the Little Ice Period from 1300++, and eclipsing with the termination of the Norse colony in Greenland somewhere 1410-1460, in parallel with the Black Plague, as well as a spiritual renaissance in Europe as a response to what has been considered an apolalypse, late medieval era is generally also considered to be starting by Hundred Years War, England and France, 1337 and onwards, but could start earlier or later. So for all purposes, the new Late Medieval Era start date should be 1347, with Byzantine Civil War ending, Mongol expansion brought to a halt etc etc, and the end date should actually be 1520s-1530s, as a very cool endgame would be to explore a random or semirandom continent if chosen, as in EU4, with surprising cultures, nations, technologies based on historical scenarios. No need to let EU start date keep CK3 from realizing its full potential, as its such a great game, and CK3 is now out from the EU4 shadow in my opinion.
With several 1000 hours on Crusader Kings series, you may for the positive or the negative, call me a very interested player. I also do read Medieval History a lot, as a hobby. I honestly think we need to expand the thinking beyond the fall of Constantinople towards 1485-1530 range to consider what should be the new real end date of the game. English history generally considers Battle of Bosworth Hill and the Death of Richard III as the final date of English medieval history. Portugal and Spain would lean to consider that to be the end of Reconquista, death of the Perfect Prince, Columbus, Tordesillas Treaty, so we are talking about 1485-1497 here for these. HRE could be considered medieval, in the sense of Catholic Monopoly over Western Europe until 1517-1530. Medici had its last pope around 1520, for Italy. The interplay France and Henry VIII, and Emperor Charles of Habsburg is also a real interesting period when it comes to an end date, with all the centralized roleplaying and strategy potential there. As Europe had the Little Ice Period from 1300++, and eclipsing with the termination of the Norse colony in Greenland somewhere 1410-1460, in parallel with the Black Plague, as well as a spiritual renaissance in Europe as a response to what has been considered an apolalypse, late medieval era is generally also considered to be starting by Hundred Years War, England and France, 1337 and onwards, but could start earlier or later. So for all purposes, the new Late Medieval Era start date should be 1347, with Byzantine Civil War ending, Mongol expansion brought to a halt etc etc, and the end date should actually be 1520s-1530s, as a very cool endgame would be to explore a random or semirandom continent if chosen, as in EU4, with surprising cultures, nations, technologies based on historical scenarios. No need to let EU start date keep CK3 from realizing its full potential, as its such a great game, and CK3 is now out from the EU4 shadow in my opinion.
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