What's funny to me is how they claim they are much more serious and realistic than CKII, because they don't have satanists, supernatural powers and occasional talking horses.
Is there a mod to restore this?
Most of those let you borrow from 'merchants' or templars or whatever
Less control over your character traits and skills make for better gameplay. CK3 feels like a paint by numbers game with how you basically pick the same paths through the lifestyle ability trees. It also locks a lot of options that sensibly should exist for every character behind certain paths. Having randomness in things makes for more replayability and the feeling that you're actually strategizing on the fly rather than repeating the same circle of actions. This also applies to forging claims, which in CK2 is random but in CK3 is on a timer so you always know when you'll get a new one (and claims are one of the main ways to expand early as a vassal).
Similar stages of development is a bit of a difficult metric. Should we compare by time since release, or by number of DLCs released? Because CK2 had assloads of DLCs out compared to CK3 in the same timespan (and the DLCs were better to boot).
Yes, in CK2, armies only spawned in the province of their lords, so you had to manually regroup them in a province, and therefore the soldiers from the farthest provinces were vulnerable to enemy attacks. Also, with this solution you could see at a glance who the lords were who didn't support you.
It was a rather historically accurade mechanic...and absolutely atrocious gameplay-wise. Gathering all those 20-30 men stacks was a constant pain.
Men-at-Arms.
Later patches added rally points so you only had to manually manage islands (and could get around this by giving the vassal a capital on the mainland)
Lmao, they didn't have plagues for two years post release, but they were adding shit like tournaments and 3D royal courts? When you add this to the continuing lack of republics as a government form, the change of focus is clear.
Paradox fanbase deserve this game and so anyone expecting this game to be about strategy while the devs made it clear they don't give a fuck.
The one thing that makes me curious to see about EUV/"Tinto" is how they've implemented Johan's claim that they want to model the evolution from feudal armies' recruitment to early modern army recruitment. I imagine they'll do some hybrid between CK's recruitment mechanics - which CK though, 2 or 3 - and the EU mechanics.
