PAoE: Peter's Age of Explorations Modded Scenario for 24 players in EU2
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Version: 1.1.1a
Filename: PetersAgeOfExplorations_1492_v111a.eug
Filename: PetersAgeOfExplorations_1520_v111a.eug
Note: This PAoE requires EU2 version 1.07 or later.
Introduction
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Peter's Age of Explorations consists of a 1492 and a 1520 24 player scenario. The 1492 scenario is based on the Paradox Age of Explorations, the 1520 is based on Fate's Age of Reformation.
Both scenarios have been subjected to several of my mods (Manpower, Wealth of Persia, Wealth of India), some AGC changes, as well as many other interesting changes and tweaks. New releases are made whenever I feel like it. To contribute ideas or change requests for future releases, post to the latest release thread in the EU2 forums. There will be a link to the latest release thread in the subforum EU2 - user made scenarios and mods, currently the link is
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88535 (but that may change)
Primarily intended for MP games, but certainly playable in SP, the scenarios are delivered in the form of .eug files, such that nothing except the save file needs to be transferred to players and no mods need to be installed when new players join. Everything is contained in the save files.
Installation instructions:
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1. Copy the saves file to <EU2ROOT>\scenarios\ (e.g. c:\games\eu2\scenarios\ )
2. Start EU2 in either single- or multi-player
3. Select the PAoE 1492 or 1520 (transmit it to other players in MP or let them download it when you host the game)
4. Start the scenario
Release 1.1.1a Released January 18th, 2004
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The Quickbitch release. Minor changes only.
1492:
Russia
* Loses Ruthenian culture again due to bitching. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Scotland
* Scottish base manpower down to 14 from 18
Venice:
* Fleet set to 20/80/0
1520:
Russia
* Loses Ruthenian culture again due to bitching. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Scotland
* Scottish base manpower down to 14 from 18
Venice
* Fleet set to 20/80/0
Release 1.1.1 Released January 11th, 2004
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1492:
Global Population Changes
* Upgraded all starting populations of 20,000 to 20,500 for more accurate relative manpower depictions on startup (if they start at 20,000 they experience a bump to the next category after just one month of playing)
Austria
* Guaranteed independence to all German HRE members until 1821
Denmark
* Granted navalequipment manufactory in Jutland
* Starts with bigger bag of gold (1,000d)
* Shipyard in Copenhagen
* Slightly increased manpoer of Southern Norway, Sjælland, Jutland, and Skåne
England
* Base manpower increased from 43 to 66
Mughal Empire
* Increased taxvalues of Herat, Kabul, Quetta, Surkhandarya, Zahedan
Poland
* Loses Hinterpommern core (no more using that core on a capital as the excuse for annexing the entire northern HRE)
Scotland
* Base manpower of increased from 10 to 18
Songhai
* Gold provinces now much poorer (Bambuk (1490) and Buré (1494) are now base 10 rather than base 50)
Sibir
* now pagan with muslims rather than muslim with pagans (just like in 1520 1.1.0)
Russia
* Added Mongol and Ruthenian cultures for easier conversion (historically easy conversions, needed for lower stabcosts that were raised with 1.07 BB. Really ought to be added by event later on, but, oh well)
Venice
* Conscription Centre in Venice itself (representing Italian Condottieri... Ehhm. Well, something like that. They need a manpower and support limit boost, dammit)
* Population of Veneto set to 200,007 to artificially award it the highest manpower category (and to prevent it from suddenly gaining in manpower 110 years down the road)
* Base manpower of Veneto dropped to 6 from 7
- Total result of the three above changes is a fat 10.0 manpower from Veneto, that will ONLY increase by manpower boosting events (1.5 per +1), and a ~14,000 boost to the support limit
* Knowledge of Isfahan CoT granted, 4 merchants in place
* 40 extra galleys awarded
* Starts with bigger bag of gold (2,000d)
1520:
Global Population Changes
* Upgraded all starting populations of 20,000 to 20,500 for more accurate relative manpower depictions on startup (if they start at 20,000 they experience a bump to the next category after just one month of playing)
CoT Changes:
* Al Kharam CoT removed: Always very small, served only to give Portugal extra merchants
* Guantanamo (Santiago) CoT added: Splits Central American trade
Austria
* Loses Lombardia core (allocated to Spain in the split)
* Start with CBs on Bohemia
* Guaranteed independence to all German HRE members until 1821
Bohemia
* Two fortresses raised to small
England
* Base manpower increased from 43 to 66
* Initial fleet increased by 13 warships to 60
Denmark
* Granted navalequipment manufactory in Jutland
* Starts with bigger bag of gold (1,000d)
* Shipyard in Copenhagen
* Slightly increased manpoer of Southern Norway, Sjælland, Jutland, and Skåne
Mughal Empire
* Increased taxvalues of Herat, Kabul, Quetta, Surkhandarya, Zahedan
Ottomans
* Removed free weapons mnf in Anatolia
Poland
* Loses Hinterpommern core (no more using that core on a capital as the excuse for annexing the entire northern HRE)
* Infrastructure tech down to 2 from 3
Portugal
* Tech 10/14/4/3 (down from 11/15/5/3)
* Goa now 35K hindus rather than a 6K Catholic Iberian colony. All of mainland India is now considered Indian cities rather than small European colonies for consistency.
* Free naval equipment manufactory in Tago removed
* Al Kharam no longer core
* Mercantilism -2 to 8
* Portuguese 500 pop colonies reduced to 200 pop, fortresses in 200 pop provinces wiped. Tough luck if the natives wipe you out.
Russia
* Slightly adjusted several taxvalues in Russian cultured provinces
* Updated population figures from their 1492 roots
* Removed free weapons manufactory in Vladimir
* Tech 7/3/3/2 (down from 8/4/3/3)
* Added Mongol and Ruthenian cultures for easier conversion (historically easy conversions, needed for lower stabcosts that were raised with 1.07 BB. Really ought to be added by event later on, but, oh well)
Scotland
* Base manpower of increased from 10 to 18
Songhai
* Gold provinces now much poorer (Bambuk (1490) and Buré (1494) are now base 10 rather than base 50)
Spain
* Guantanamo (Santiago) now 1,000 pop with minimum fortress
* Spanish 500 pop colonies reduced to 200 pop
Venice
* Conscription Centre in Venice itself (representing Italian Condottieri... Ehhm. Well, something like that. They need a manpower and support limit boost, dammit)
* Population of Veneto set to 200,007 to artificially award it the highest manpower category (and to prevent it from suddenly gaining in manpower 110 years down the road)
* Base manpower of Veneto dropped to 6 from 7
- Total result of the three above changes is a fat 10.0 manpower from Veneto, that will ONLY increase by manpower boosting events (1.5 per +1), and a ~14,000 boost to the support limit
* Knowledge of Isfahan CoT granted, 4 merchants in place
* 40 extra galleys awarded
* Granted naval equipment manufactory in Crete
* Slight market penetration in all European CoTs
* Island fortresses reduced to small from medium
* Starts with bigger bag of gold (2,000d)
* Gets core on Mantua
Release 1.1.0. September 14th, 2003
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The Unification Release: The main changes are the unification of various entities in the 1520 scenario: France and Bourbonnais in 1520 (were to be annexed 1527 anyhow), Russia and Ryazan (a year early compared to the 1521 historical date), and a reconstruction of Habsburg Austria (Alsace, Württemberg, Odenburg, Istria, Krain added)
Additionally, a number of economic tech-discrepancies in the 1520 setup were fixed. In general, the 1520 setup is as follows
Advanced European powers: Infra 3, trade 3 (except for a few major trading powers that have higher trade)
Backwards European powers: Infra 3, trade 2 (except for Russia, which got trade 3 for game-balancing purposes, because it is so damn expensive)
Advanced Oriental powers: Infra 3, trade 3 (China, Nippon only)
Trading muslim powers: Infra 2, trade 3
Backwards Oriental powers: Infra 2, trade 2
Mongols &etc: Infra 1, trade 2
Pagan rabble: Infra 0, trade 0
The dividing line between advanced and backwards European powers is implemented more or less as an east-west split going through Poland with the Ottoman Empire and Russia as the main exceptions. (Poland included as advanced)
1492:
Algiers
* Fleet changed from 20/0/5 to 0/40/5 (support limit only approx 25, but galleys are cheap)
* Slightly increased manpower
* Slightly increased tax income
Austria
* Alsace (Strassburg) now starts as part of Austria (the province now represents the Vorderösterreich rather than the tiny Bishopric)
* Odenburg is now Austrian rather than Hungarian (capital city, Guns, Austrian since 1491. Giving the whole province is more of a HAB/OE balance issue)
Bohemia
* Very slightly increased manpower of Bohemia
Brandenburg
* DP settings changed from stock 1419 settings (8/1/4/8/5/6/5/9). Now less aristocratic (-2),
more centralised (+2), innovative (+2), and land-focused (+1) (6/3/6/8/5/7/5/9)
* Increased fortress sizes
Denmark
* Slightly increased manpower of Southern Norway and Skåne
Genoa
* Fleet is now 0/50/5 rather than 28/0/5
Hungary
* Now more cavalry and less infantry in initial armies
* Loses Odenburg to Austria (capital city, Guns, Austrian since 1491. Giving the whole province is more of a HAB/OE balance issue)
* Slightly increased manpower of Hungary
* Gains Ruthenian culture
Morocco
* Tassaret now a L3 fortified colony [with 2000 extremely highly aggressive natives - joy!]
* Small fortress in capital
Papal States
* Fleet is now 0/20/5 rather than 10/0/0
* Temporary CB on the Ottoman Empire until 1820
Strassburg
* Absorbed in Austria (province no longer considered as representing the Bishopric)
Teutonic Order
* Gained Ugric culture (due to Livland and Estland having ugric rather than baltic culture)
* 30 cannon converted to 3,000 infantry and a slightly larger starting treasury
Venice
* The fortress of Veneto is now Mighty
* Slightly increased manpower and tax values of Venice
* Naval Equipment manufactory on Corfu
1520:
Algiers
* Fleet changed from 20/0/5 to 0/40/5 (support limit only approx 25, but galleys are cheap)
* Slightly increased manpower
* Slightly increased tax income
Austria
* Württemberg now starts as part of Austria rather than a vassal (annexed 1519, nationalism granted until 1550)
* Alsace (Strassburg) now starts as part of Austria (the province now represents the Vorderösterreich rather than the tiny Bishopric)
* Odenburg is now Austrian rather than Hungarian (capital city, Guns, Austrian since 1491. Giving the whole province is more of a HAB/OE balance issue)
* Krain is now Austrian rather than Hungarian (debatable, given that the Krain province does not really correspond to Habsburg Carniola, but the Habsburgs are being beefed up a bit, so let's see how it works out)
* Istria is now Austrian rather than Venetian (gives Austria access to the sea in Trieste and provides a roadblock for the Ottomans who can no longer march to Venice)
* Granted cores on all of Hungary [good claim since 1491, strong since 1515, and will encourage a clash over Hungary rather than sitting around waiting for the OE to trigger the annexation event]
Bohemia
* Very slightly increased manpower of Bohemia
Bourbonnais
* Annexed by France 7 years early.
Brandenburg
* DP settings changed from stock 1419 settings (8/1/4/8/5/6/5/9). Now less aristocratic (-2),
more centralised (+3), innovative (+2), and land-focused (+1) (6/4/6/8/5/7/5/9)
* Medium fortresses in Brandenburg
* RM with Prussia
Denmark
* Slightly increased manpower of Southern Norway and Skåne
* One Danish Army has been given a derogative name to satisfy the hordes of Swedes who disliked the Swedish "Fordrukne Svenskere" detachment.
England
* Better relations with Spain
France
* Bourbonnais incorporated
Genoa
* Fleet is now 0/50/5 rather than 28/0/5
Hungary
* Now more cavalry and less infantry in initial armies
* Loses Odenburg to Austria (capital city, Guns, Austrian since 1491. Giving the whole province is more of a HAB/OE balance issue)
* Loses Krain to Austria (debatable, given that the Krain province does not really correspond to Habsburg Carniola, but the Habsburgs are being beefed up a bit, so let's see how it works out)
* Slightly increased manpower of Hungary
* Gains Ruthenian culture
Knights Hospitaller
* Good relations with the Papal States
Morocco
* Tassaret now a L4 fortified colony [with 2000 extremely highly aggressive natives - joy!]
* Small fortress in capital
Papal States
* Good relations with the Teutonic order, the Knights Hospitaller, Spain, and Portugal
* Fleet is now 0/20/5 rather than 10/0/0
* Temporary CB on the Ottoman Empire until 1820
Portugal
* Better relations with the Pope
Prussia
* RM with Brandenburg
Ryazan
* Incorporated into Russia (historically annexed 1521, but oh well)
Russia
* Small fortress in Novgorod
* Ryazan incorporated (historically annexed 1521, but oh well)
Spain
* Better relations with England and the Pope
Strassburg
* Absorbed in Austria (province no longer considered as representing the Bishopric)
Teutonic Order
* Gained Ugric culture (due to Livland and Estland having ugric rather than baltic culture)
* 30 cannon converted to 3,000 infantry and a slightly larger starting treasury
* Added small warfleet 10/0/0
* Decent relations with Northern German states, Bohemia, and Austria, good with the Papal States
Venice
* Naval tech upped to 12
* Added Ragusa as core
* Naval Equipment manufactory on Corfu
* The fortress of Veneto is now Mighty
* Slightly increased manpower and tax values of Venice
* Loses Istria to Austria (gives Austria access to the sea in Trieste and provides a roadblock for the Ottomans who can no longer march to Venice)
Württemberg
* Gone the way of the dodo. Annexed 1519 by Austria.
Release 1.0.9. August 24th, 2003
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Daghestan/Azerbaijan are now both kurdish rather than turkish, and both the Ottoman Empire
and Persia have kurdish as state culture. This makes both of these provinces very attractive
to both empires, and should, hopefully, provoke strife. The province culture change is a
gameplay change, not a historical one, since both provinces were surely populated by turks,
but turks loyal to the Persian crown for a long, long, time, and important Persian provinces.
Fortunately, this ties in well with replacing Ottoman Slavonic culture - the Slavonics were
not much used in the Ottoman armies after the early sixteenth century - with Kurdish, and the
Kurds were used in the Ottoman military. Who knows, it might even mean that the Balkans no
longer become solidly muslim overnight as conversion rates plummet.
1492:
Terrain/Goods changes from 1520 setup imported.
CoT changes:
* Cuzco (#169) CoT moved to Lima (#168), coastal CoTs are more readily accessible to traders
* Kansai (#686) CoT moved to Kyushu (#688) - see Nippon entry
* Zacatecas (#27) CoT moved to Tlaxcala (#29), coastal CoTs are more readily accessible to traders
China
* Now uses highly experimental new AI - Feedback on overall efficiency and specific idiocy requested
England
* Justices of the Peace (tax collectors in Midlands 244, Kent 248, Yorkshire 241, Bristol 249, Lincoln 245 and Wessex 246)
* DP changes: Ari-2, Cen+1, Inn+2, Mer+1, now 5/7/6/3/3/4/7/5
Nippon
* Kansai CoT and capital moved to Kyushu from start to make CoT-snatching harder
Ottoman Empire
* Gain Kurdish culture
* Loses Slavonic culture (not really used after the early 16th century)
* Increased manpower of Thrace (now base 8)
* DP changes: Now same DP as 1520 (7/5/3/7/6/7/4)
Persia
* Starting fleet reduced to 5 warships
* DP changes: Offensive-3 to 6, quality+2 to 4, land-1 to 7
Sibir
* Bugfix: Swapped Altai/Mongol cultures so Altai is now primary culture (i.e. Sibir now converts pagans to Altai, not Mongol)
1520:
CoT changes:
* Cuzco (#169) CoT moved to Lima (#168), coastal CoTs are more readily accessible to traders
* Kansai (#686) CoT moved to Kyushu (#688) - see Nippon entry
* Zacatecas (#27) CoT moved to Tlaxcala (#29), coastal CoTs are more readily accessible to traders
China
* Now uses highly experimental new AI - Feedback on overall efficiency and specific idiocy requested
England
* DP changes: Ari-2, Cen+1, Inn+2, Mer+1, now 5/7/6/3/3/4/7/5
France
* DP Changes: Quality+1 to 6 (bugfix: now same value as in 1492)
Nippon
* Kansai CoT and capital moved to Kyushu from start to make CoT-snatching harder
Ottoman Empire
* Gain Kurdish culture
* Increased manpower of Thrace (now base 8)
* Loses Slavonic culture (not really used after the early 16th century)
Persia
* Starting fleet reduced to 10 warships
* DP changes: Offensive-3 to 6, quality+2 to 4, land-1 to 7
Teutonic Order
* 60,000 infantry swordbrothers were reduced to 6,000. I hate typos.
Release 1.0.8. July 5th, 2003.
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1492:
Selectable nations
* Granada is now selectable
Timurid Empire
* Map knowledge added: 522, 1529, 1530, 1532, 1533
1520:
CoT Shuffle
* Omani CoT moved from Muscate to Al Kharam, which is now controlled by Portugal
Merchants added to all centres of trade
Major country change:
* Poland and Lithuania has been merged into Poland-Lithuania from game start.
This is done primarily because the vassal relationship did not enable the
close Polish-Lithuanian cooperation before the union and because it was
misused too often in MP by Sweden and Russia. In MP, those two nations commonly
repeatedly rape AI Lithuania for provinces, which cannot be prevented in any
way by Poland as they sign separate peace with Lithuania. The result is typically
that Poland-Lithuania has no chance to be as strong as historically as they are
in decline from the very game start, and that nobody really wants to play them.
To merge is an attempt to remedy this situation.
The merging includes:
* The unification events 3447, 3475, 3476 have been slept
* Complete core shield and province ownership merge of Poland and Lithuania
* The Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuanian has Lithuanian culture from game start
* The techgroup is orthodox from game start
* The weapons manufactory in Krakow, which was granted to boost Poland's support limit, is gone
* Centralisation is decreased by 1 to 1 (as it would have done in the unification event)
[Yes, this means that the Henrykian articles are extremely hard to avoid -
- and so is the Liberum Veto. Learn to deal with it. The Polish Kings did.]
* Increased relations with the house of Habsburg (125) to lessen the risk of war over Bohemia
Bremen
* Trade increased from 3 to 4
Delhi
* Gives Thar & Bikaner to the Mughal Empire (Tiger on the Border has now happened)
England
* Added tax collectors to Ireland
* Bedford t'Anti-Cheese now lives only 6 years rather than 10. Not quite enough to discover the entire world. Use him or lose him.
France
* Relations with Scotland at +100 (Auld Alliance)
Genoa
* Trade increased from 4 to 5
Gujarat
* Gains Bombay
* Fixed Type that gave Gujarat negative relations with Provence rather than Portugal
Habsburgs
* Empire ruled from Madrid, dp-settings changed, treasury reduced
* Relations with Poland-Lithuania set to 125
Hyderabad
* Modified core shields
Mainz
* Starting army reduced from 80,000 infantry to 8,000. Some typos create interesting effects
Mughal Empire
* Gains Thar & Bikaner from Delhi (Tiger on the Border has now happened)
Mysore
* Granted core shields on Southern India
Orissa
* Gains Palakimedi
Ottoman Empire
* Added tax collectors to (319, 320, 321, 355, 358, 359, 360, 363, 478, 479, 485, 486, 491, 743)
* Land +1 to 6, Centralisation +1 to 5, Quality +1 to 7
Persia
* Added tax collectors to (471, 472, 473, 487, 488, 489)
* Modified map knowledge
Portugal
* Reduced many Portuguese overseas possesions to colonies rather than colonial cities
and made them catholic iberians (509, 549, 573, 576, 713, 761, 763, 766, 768, 770)
* Owns and control Al Kharam (505) as a colonial city. Portuguese core moved from 504 to 505
* Trade increased from 4 to 5
Russia
* Increased starting army size
Scotland
* Relations with France at +100 (Auld Alliance)
Sibir
* Mongol culture added, primary culture remains altai
Spain
* Added tax collectors to (387, 429, 444, 445, 734)
* Empire ruled from Madrid, dp-settings changed
* Boosted loansize to 1,000d
Venice
* Trade increased from 4 to 5
Vijayanagar
* Granted core shields on Southern India
Release 1.0.7. May 26th, 2003
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1492:
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Austria
* Slightly increased manpower of Austria
England
* Increased population of Irish provinces to prevent colonisation changing culture
Persia
* Removed Uzbehk culture from Persia to cut down on the bitching
Portugal
* Increased colonialattempts for Portugal(20)
Spain
* Increased colonialattempts for Spain(10)
1520:
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Austria
* Slept abdication of Charles V. Not needed with the Spanish lowlands setup
* Milano is now an Austrian core
* Slightly increased manpower of Austria
Denmark
* Eiriksfjord, Vestbygden not Catholic Scandinavian colonies
England
* Granted explorer from 1520-1530 for gamebalancing purposes, Bedford t'Anti-Cheese, to
prevent France from grabbing the entire NAm coast before England gets a historical explorer.
Kongo
* Kongo now has knowledge of Timbuktu. No longer sends trade to Zanzibar or Kansai
Mughal Empire
* Mughal dp updated to be more in line with 1492 scenario + the Unleashing of the Tiger
Mysore
* Fixed population of Kerala in India
Ottoman Empire
* Ottoman quality +2 to 6 (for Founding the Enderun way back in 1454)
Persia
* Herat now controlled by Persia
* Removed Uzbehk culture from Persia to cut down on the bitching
Poland
* Poland awarded 2 CEN out of pity rather than 0.
Portugal
* Increased Portugal's starting fleet by 20 warships
* Socotra now arabic and orthodox (Nestorian) and controlled by Aden
* Increased colonialattempts for Portugal(20)
* Diamentina now Catholic Iberian
Spain
* Increased colonialattempts for Spain(15)
* Havana, Moron, Guantanamo, Jamaica, Isthmus, Tortuga, Barahona, Puerto Rico, Tobago & Trinidad now Catholic Iberian
* Added (forgotten) core on Roussilon
Release 1.0.6. May 25th, 2003
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1492:
* Persia loses Turkish culture. Azerbaijan made Kurdish. Starting stability reduced to -3. Killed part of the army.
* Ivoria CoT moved to Timbuktu
* Removed Mecklemburg CoT
* England is now more innovative +2 to 4
* Persia and Timurid land dp increased (+3) to hinder (or at least slow down) early colonisation
* Corrected Chinese dp-settings to be in line with the inward perfection choice.
* 1520 Scenario Added based on Fate´s 1520 Age of Reformation (Apr23 Beta)
* with Peter Ebbesen's Manpower Mod, Wealth of India Mod, and Wealth of Persia Mod.
* And a significant number of tweaks....
Release 1.0.5. April 24th, 2003
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Global changes:
* Added a tax collector to each national capital
Trade tech change
* Trade 3 lowered to trade 2 for Atjeh, Brunei, Bengal, Dai Viet, Jodhpur, Malacca, and Pegu
Population bumps
* To avoid too many interesting culture changes, the following low-population nations had their populations bumped: Aden, Algiers, Hedjaz, Oman
CoT shuffle
* Removed Manhattan CoT and modified the map knowledge of Cherokee, Dakota, Huron, Iroquois, Lenape, and Shawnee to target their trade to Zacatecas
* Added CoT to Copenhagen (see further notes under Denmark)
* Moved Indian CoT from Kutch to Delhi
Ak Koyunlu
* Removed. Incorporated in Persia. This is where Ismaîls first conquests were, after all, not in the east.
Austria
* DP-Quality+1 to 6
* Increased fortresses in the Netherlands by +1 each (the IGC solution)
* Medium fortress in Austria itself
Baluchistan
* Gains Mekran from Persia
Bourbonnais
* Created in Berri, Limoges, and Auvergne as a vassal of France with vassalisation start date 1517, alliance, RM, and granting France military access (in fact, Bourbonnais controlled parts of the EU2 provinces Bourgogne and Lyonnais, but since EU2 does not operate with half provinces, and granting Bourbonnais all of e.g. Bourgogne would mean an instant invasion from France despite the horrible stability loss, they were ignored)
Brandenburg
* Loses core shields on Poznan (gained in "1st partition of Poland") and Silesia (gained in the "Effects of the Pragmatic Sanctions")
China
* Minimal forts in all provinces. No more 99% victory score by overrunning central China with a few cavalry armies.
* Added 50% population
Denmark
* Removed the naval equipment manufactory
* Loses the +10 tax bonus for the Sound Due - it is exchanged for a Centre of Trade
* Added missing cores on Greenland 1537 and 1538 (granted when Norway becomes part of Denmark)
France
* Naval tech decreased to 4 (only recently gained the cinque ports)
* DP-Quality+1 to 6
* Loses core shield on Lorraine, and Franche Comté (Did not come under the French crown until long after 1492)
* Charles VIII now MIL 7 rather than MIL 9
* Béarn now belongs to Navarre
* Auvergne, Berri, Limousin now forms the Duchy of Bourbonnais, a French vassal.
Manchuria
* Amour, Birobidjan, Bogdorodsk, Sofiisk, and Vanin are now Manchu provinces rather than colonisable.
Milan
* Granted goods manufactory in Lombardia
Muscowy
* Removed naval manufactory (no longer needed with the reduction in the Orthodox tech group modifier)
Ottoman Empire
* Increased forts +1 in Thrace and Anatolia
Navarre
* Now owns Béarn, capital moved north to Béarn (historically, Spain annexed the southern part around 1512, after which the capital moved north, and Navarre remained until Henri III of Navarre became king of France in 1589. This is the best I can do within the province borders and without adding events)
Persia, take 2! Now based on approximate situation 1506-1512 rather than an arbitrary choice of all Perisan cultured provinces.
* Capital moved to Tabriz (which is where Ismaîl established his throne)
* Added Daghestan, Armenia, Kurdistan, Nuyssaybin as cores
* Removed Fine Arts Academy from Tabriz
* Incorporated Ak Koyunlu. It was the area conquered first by Ismaîl, after all.
* Removed arabic culture - Persia should only have arabic culture under Abbas I, and he failed in the end
* Added Baluchi, Kurdish, Turkish, Uzbek culture - widely accepted within Persia (unlike Afghani - the Afghans were never anything but trouble)
* Mekran to Baluchistan
* Khorasan, Meched to Uzbeks (closest equivalent)
* naval tech-1 to 3
* Karim Khan now minister 1757-1773 for Ismaîl III as per remark in monarchs.per. (Simulated via a new monarch)
Spain
* DP-Quality+1 to 8
* DP-Land+2 to 5 (The united kingdom of Aragon and Castile had just completed a long land-based conquest)
* Rousillon Iberian and made a core of Spain
* Naval tech-1 to 6
Uzbeks
* Gain Khorasan and Meched from Persia
* Tech 2/0/1/1 (up from 1/0/0/0)
Release 1.0.4. April 2nd, 2003: "The Persia Nerfing Release"
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Persia
* Changed dp-sliders yet again. Now 7/3/3/9/9/5/2/7. The Persians are now narrowminded decentralised landgrubbers with 0 colonists/year as some vocal people found appropriate
* Tech 5/4/2/2. No longer granted trade 3 for the great importance of Persian traders on the Silk Road due to the howls of the Euro-centric, Persia is reduced to trade 2 with 10,000 invested in trade, leaving only 10,500 to reach trade 3. The bonus to naval and infrastructure got wiped as well. As a sop, got the option to assault fortresses with land 5. Woohoo.
Timurids
* Tech 4/3/2/2. Bonuses to trade and infrastructure wiped in a preemptive strike. Left the land tech bonus. It insures that the "Bâburs Ambition" gives the Timurids just enough land tech to assault.
Release 1.0.3. 1st April, 2003
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History
* Succession in Provence (3323) has now happened, opening for French claims in Italy
Manpower increases:
* Vijayanagar, Mysore (provinces that used to be colonies and thus had minimal manpower)
* Ottoman Empire (Area of Anatolia)
Wealth increases:
* Indian taxvalues substantially increased
* Persian taxvalues increased
Muscowy
* Granted Weapons Manufactory in Vladimir and Naval Equipment Manufactory in Vologda
Ottoman Empire
* Starting land tech increased to 7 from 6
Persia
* DP sliders 7/6/4/9/9/3/2/7
* Tech 4/4/3/2
* Fine Arts Academy in Tabaristan
* Starting RR decreased to 5%
Poland
* Now latin tech to start with as the tech group is changed to orthodox in the act of union with the newest patches
Timurid Empire
* DP sliders 7/3/3/9/7/6/2/10
* Fine Arts Academy in Samarkand
Armies rebalanced to limit the "Too large army, I would rather bleed it off on my neighbours in an otherwise pointless war than disband" syndrome
Country Old Army New Army Limit
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Algiers 40,000 16,000 11,000
Astrakhan 40,000 20,000 9,000
Bavaria 36,000 20,000 16,000
Brandenburg 26,000 20,000 13,000
Cambodia 25,000 15,000 9,000
Crimea 80,000 30,000 20,000
Denmark 45,000 35,000 28,000
Golden Horde 50,000 35,000 10,000
Hannover 25,000 15,000 10,000
Hessen 25,000 15,000 9,000
Hungary 70,000 30,000 22,000
Kazan 60,000 25,000 9,000
Morocco 50,000 20,000 10,000
Muscowy 100,000 60,000 53,000
Nippon 70,000 50,000 40,000
Nubia 30,000 20,000 10,000
Papal States 10,000 15,000 20,000
Persia 30,000 60,000 61,000
Poland 117,000 41,000 37,000
Saxony 30,000 18,000 9,000
Sibir 35,000 25,000 10,000
Sweden 57,000 25,000 18,000
Taungu 29,000 15,000 11,000
Teutonic Order 31,000 24,000 12,000
Timurid Empire 30,000 25,000 18,000
Release 1.0.2. 26th March, 2003
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Ak Koyunlu
* 5 year truce with Persia and the Timurid Empire
* Increased starting wealth
Persia
* 5 year truce with Ak Koyunlu and the Timurid Empire
* +6 RR until 1500 (when Ismail arrives as a leader)
* Tweaked dp-sliders: Increased land from 3 to 5 to reduce early Perisan colonisation
* Made Bahrein a L3 colony rather than a L3 TP
Timurid Empire
* Tech 4/3/2/2. This was also the case in 1.0.1 but was misreported as 4/2/2/2 due to a typo
* 5 year truce with Persia and Ak Koyunlu
* Small presence in nearby COTs
* Tweaked dp-sliders: Increased centralisation from 0 to 3
Release 1.0.1.
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Ak Koyunlu
* Stability 1
Denmark
* Increased manpower of Sjælland and Jylland
* Sjælland gains naval equipment manufactory to bolster naval support limit
Lithuania
* Granted Ruthenian culture
Ottoman Empire
* Increased manpower of Thrace
* Increased manpower, income, and population of Anatolia and added a weapons manufactory
Persia
* Removed core on Nuyssaybin
* Added cores Herat, Kushka, Iraq, Kirkuk, Bahrein
* Added map knowledge of Bahrein and made it a Persian L3 TP
* Added L1 forts in Hamadan, Awaz, Hormouz, and Fars
* Tech 3/3/3/2
* Tweaked dp-sliders: 8/5/4/9/9/3/2/7
Poland
* Krakow gains weapons manufactory to bolster support limit
* Increased manpower of Mazovia, Krakow, Podolia, Galizien, and Danzig
* Granted Ruthenian culture. Should not really have it before the union of Lublin, but this way avoids modifying events (and it is not likely that Poland will acquire a large number of such provinces before the event, after all)
Timurid Empire
* Tech 4/2/2/2
* Stability 0
Release 1.0.0. 21th March, 2003
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Basic AOE setup
Manpower mod 0.9.0 applied
Persia force created early, and provinces ceded early from Ak Koyunlu and the Timurid Empire (3817, 3818). Would otherwise happen in 1497
Persia has Persian and Arabic state cultures, and starts at -2 stability
Persia gains Baluchi cores
Persia starts with 30K army, 5 warships navy, and 400d
Persia has +200 relations with Ak Koyunlu and Timurids due to province ceding
Persia has map knowledge as Ak Koyunlu plus a few sea zones and the Timurid Border zones
Ak Koyunlu starts with +3 stabiliy, now that they have gotten rid of the Safavids
Persia and Afghanistan(Timurids) have population raised
Persia and the Timurids start with 3/3/2/2 tech.
