Europa Universalis IV

I was speaking purely of military effect, not strategic decisions. If you want to talk about those, you have to also consider the US oil embargo which massively affected Japanese strategy throughout the war.

 

But then point is there was no available oil in the Siberia then so Japan didnt have much choice - it was either import from USA (which would have then to supply a militaristic power in its conquests - unlikely) or invade Indonesia and that meant war with European nations and USA in the long term. Ultimately Japan has no real choice unless it diverted all of its industry to land forces and focused on unmechanized warfare in Siberia - not only military suicide but also unfeasible as far as Japaense politics are concerned.

 

So about that randomized new world thing. They mention it is a completely randomized American continent, with the example given that it might be just a few islands to stopover on the way to India. It seems to me that the technology behind this feature wasn't developed solely for use in this DLC. Which causes me to speculate a little bit about what other projects they might currently be working on. Might it be a game with randomized maps and not their normal historical grand strategy games? Some 4x grand strategy game perhaps? Whether sci-fi, fantasy, or some sort of quasi-historical setting?

I sure hope so because that would be the tits. I've often wanted to play games with paradox gameplay that aren't historical simulators. Games where each game could be radically different(and unknown to the player beforehand) instead of being the same starting scenario every time.

 

The devs have mentioned it would be rather easy for a modder to apply the randomization to the entirety of the map, so there's that.

 

Some new event pictures for the upcomming DLC, if anyone cares.

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In Putin's Russia the victim is guilty of being assaulted

 

Ya should have handed over Danzig

 

Wasn't Poland called micro great power? Aka country that couldn't have chance to be a great power, but who is acting as one. Then two real great powers decided they had enough, and as everyone expected there was no Poland anymore.

 

When side, that was defeated, abadon all plans for furher expansion in that region and get impressive number of casualities, that were politically killed, then one could say that that side was not only beaten but also humilated.
The fact, that someone in Japan military wanted to continue the conflict, look more like attempt to save face after fiasco, than viable military strategy.

It is absurd thing to say, that handing over Danzing to Germany could somehow prevent WW2. Although that dude was still right about Poland leadership being delusional incompetent dicks, who had some big friends and thought, that said friends would care even slightly about Poland well-being. Not sure why poles becoming so angry, when someone stated that.

 

ya know, i have had this same idea for awhile, of a Paradox fantasy empire building strategy game EU-Crusaders melding clone thing.

 

that happened alot to Poland throughout history.

 

What ? If you mean the partitions in late 1700s the situation was the exact oposite, Poland was already practically a vassal of Russia for decades, with no army to speak of and no ambitions. Nothing in common with the situation above. And what other "alot" are you babling about i have not the slightest idea. Luzur - you of all people giving this ignorant crap... sad.

To Raghar: the word you are looking is "geopolitics".

Can we go back to the subject - EU IV i think it was.

 

In before someone proposes a Poland partition historical event.

 

Why not? If the right parameters are met, a large nation should be able to be broken down

 

Because there is no need for that, in some situations all nations can and do get partitioned by their neighbors. Often happens with Poland, Bohemia, sometimes even Austria and France.

 

so, you where not invaded alot by other great powers during your history then? man, all those history books must be lies then.

 

No Poland was not invaded a lot by great powers. Not before 1650s. Ukraine was raided and attacked by Muslims and Lithuania was raided and attacked by Russians but thats it. Some border conflicts with the Teutonic Order maybe but they never reached very far into the Polish lands.

 

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• 1576–1582, Livonian War
• 1600–1629 Polish–Swedish War (1600–1629)
• 1605–1618, Polish-Muscovite War (1605 - 1618)
• 1618–1648, Thirty Years' War
• 1654–1656, Polish-Russian War (1654-1656)
• 1655–1661, Northern Wars
• 1658–1667, Polish-Russian War (1658-1667)
• 1667–1671, Polish-Cossack-Tatar War (1666-1671)
• 1672–1676, Ottoman-Commonwealth War (1672-1676)
• 1700–1721, Great Northern War
• 1733–1738, War of the Polish Succession
• 1792, Polish-Russian War of 1792

but anyway, should i have refrased it as "that happened alot to Poland after 1650" then?

but it doesnt matter, onward with the EU discussion.

 

Again those were border wars that did not in any way influence Polish territories. And some of them can hardly be called invasions of Poland.

 

This is an interesting development. I wonder how they'll assign names to the provinces of the new new world.

 

Look like the old names would be randomly given to new provinces.

 

a completely randomized EU would be ace. it puts exploration where exploration belongs.

 

Your colonies being your "vassals" instead of your territories i like. Will totally change the feel of the colonization game for the better IMO. Randomized map sounds ... interesting but to this point it wasn't a Paradox's thing.

Sweden is not a great power.

 

Well list of great powers of 1900 is this:
Brittish Empire
US
Germany
France
Habsburk monarchy
Russia

Sweden isn't in that list. However when we are looking at list of EU powers of 1600...