My first game ever. Playing France. Had a ton of great wars in the game. My main goal at first was to simply break up the UK by making them release India and her other colonies but it quickly turned into a rush for land to stay ahead of the UK. And after NGF betrayed me during a great war with the Bourgeoisie Dictatorship of Great Britain (they lost a few times to rebels after each great war, going from HMS to Bourgeoisie to Democracy to Socialist Democracy) I decided to cut them down to size and take the whole Rhineland region.

After a 3rd or 4th war with the UK, France had so much access money and resources (tanks) that they could just devour the countries around them. Infamy didn't matter, most of the other nations didn't want to get involved (although GB and China formed and alliance that was hard to deal with at times). Years of fighting GB yielded almost all of India; it wasn't easy. At times they occupied the entire sub continent, and the French soldiers barely hung onto the southern tip with 400,000 French vs 700,000 Brittish.

There was a lot of diplomatic focus, and I would say we built up an impressive sphere. Allies include: Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile, Paraguay, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Piedmont, Parma, Modena, Sweden, Montenegro, Oranje, that other boer country, Nepal, that tiny country between Nepal's provinces, Siam, Cambodia, Johore, Papal Congo (sphered, not allied).

I would imagine this might make a good HOI Scenario with the USA (with Mexico, USCA, Columbia, Egypt, Papal States, Netherlands, NGF) GB (with Two Sicilies, China, and Austria. Turkey), and France leading separate factions. There's no communist or fascist states all game, excluding Peru and Argentina, who got mad about all their land being taken. They swapped between so many government forms it was hard to keep track. I think Peru is Communist and Argentina is Fascist. The dividing factor would be that everyone who isn't allied to France hates them. Not sure where Russia would fit in, but they're the ones I'm afraid of. I was literally messing with the US' sphere but I did nothing to Russia; they were sending sizable expeditions to Spain over a debt, I think.

First fascist country: Scotland. Venezuela is in southern Egyptian (and fighting for more). America is in Ethiopia. Paraguay took out Bolivia single-handedly.








Great powers France didn't fight with: Russia, Mexico, Ottoman Empire

Based on: Beta of 5.1 - 29th June 2011
Map: Victoria II with amendments
Time frame of the mod: 5 A.D.~2010 A.D.
Added religions:
- Anglicanism;
- Baltic Paganism.
New fractions:
- Kurdistan;
- Gambia;
- Guinea-Bissau;
- Lesoto;
- Swazilend;
- Micronesia;
- Coocks islands;
- Tonga
- Pagan Lithuania;
- Modern Moldavia.
New decisions:
- Form China;
- Form Czech;
- Form Japan;
- Form Ireland;
- Form Italy;
- Form Grand duchy of Lithuania
- Form Italy;
- Form Bohemia;
- Form England;
- Form Great Britain;
- Form Medieval Poland;
- Form Poland;
- Form Russia
- Form Yugoslavia;
- Form Greece;
- Restore Roman Empire;
- Restore Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire).



Installation:
Extract the files in the mod directory of your Europa Universalis III game. You need at least Divine Wind 5.1 patch from 10th May 2011 otherwise the mod may not work. Before you start the mod it is recommended to delete the map cache of your EU III game (located in the EUIII\map\cache).

For questions about the mod, please visit our forum:



The extended time frame of the mod means many minor changes on the base of the original Divine Wind patch (DW),as for the resources, as for the technologies and history of the countries and fractions. The new nomad system introduced since this patch was influenced by the government type of the countries - something which we changed. Now it will depend on the technology group (nomadic, barbarian, native americans, aborigenes), but could be changed if you have neighbour from latin, eastern or muslim technology group and you have sufficient funds and technology achievements. This is also the first mod introducing Victoria II map, so there are many differences from the vanilla version of the game, but as well the original challenge - seize all world provinces is now even more interesting with 3283 provinces.

Interface changes:
As the mod creators are mainly from Bulgaria we change a little the interface. The biggest change is the strategic view of the map, which is in fact get from Europa Universalis mini mod which name I can't recall (if someone recognize it please let us know). As well the flag frame is imported from The Wolves mod (which get it from Latinia Universalis). Other changes are the infamity icon (Bulgarian flag), the merchant icon (which look like typical medieval Balkan trader) and the missionary icon which is in orthodox style.

Economic changes:
Issue of government securities and foreign trade debt

When country is in a long and exhausting war military maintenance is vital for the victory. However due to trade embargoes and war exhaustion rulers are often unable to pay their soldiers. On the other hand loans means that you get in the spiral of economy crisis. Other option is minting, but then the inflation will hit you.

As we know from the history often, while in war the rulers issue, so called government, which are way to finance your deficit. Off course behind this opportunities they are negative consequences:
- Global tax increase with 5 %;
- Prestige decrease with 1 monthly;
- Stability cost increase with 1 %.

The second way is when the rulers decrease the amount of gold in the coins they issue. However soon or later the population found out about this and this leads to:
- 600 gold in the treasury ;
- Stability drop with 1 level;
- Prestige decrease with 1 monthly;
- Increase revolt risk with 1.

Used mini mods:


The Black Plague is a mini mod which adds events and decisions for the mortal illness. The mod is amended for the time period between 1240 - 1600 and will hit Europe and Asia.


This mod recreate system which mark your provinces in several group depending on how far they are from the capital province. As far as they are, as much negative modifiers they will gain. This mod will make the distance your enemy. Some of the negative modifiers are - higher revolt risk, lower taxes.


This mod add the ability to play with internal factions as you can do if you play with Ming dynasty in the original Divine Wind game. You can try the challenge to rule by maneuver between the 3 different factions.

Other resources which we used:
As the Steppe Wolf is the night sequel of our mods there are many elements from previous mods as:
- Rising Nations 7;
- Renaissance 3;
- The Whole World Mod;

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