Thx guys! Can't wait.
Written while reading:
- "Defected Province" kills Byzantine exploits and makes collapses a bit less spectacular provided your province escape to some smaller nations. Makes my job as an empire killer harder by a lot. I guess it had to be done. Bye bye Byzzies. :-|
- "Cancelled Loan" - do AIs actually lend and borrow money now? If they don't, it's just a rarely used exploit allowing player to get a CB on his poor neighbour.
- "Discovered Spy" - AI spied as mad in IN, does it mean I have a free CB on everyone disliking me now?
- "Disloyal vassal" - Pretty standard. I guess it means there will be no more Provence fun.
- "Imperial Liberation" - This is the hot stuff. Will make playing Austria or other German majors a whole ton better. I don't like HRE being canibalized too fast.
- "Insult" - AI never DOW-ed unless they had a mission and advantage in forces and I was occupied with another war. Will be working fine only if AI is more aggressive and easier to provoke... which is also exploitable. Balance it carefully and we'll see.
- "Claim on Throne" - something France and England will be doing on each other? Or just a general Royal Marriage CB route? If it's RM->CB thing I don't think people will use it much.
- "Alliance" - free CB on someone your ally is fighting? Waited on this one since vanilla. Hot stuff as well.
- "Dishonoured Call" - Call me a wuss but I don't DoW my cowardly allies, just re-ally them since allies are so hard to come by in EU3 (usually takes years of bribing and fighting their wars to forge a good ally). I don't think it will be very useful.
- "Conquest", "Subjugation" - Navarra, Scotland, Milan, Ireland and probably half the HRE will cry because of this. I like it, no more 30 BB before 1420 while doing Irish missions as England.
- "Religious unity" - Another HRE thing, it's getting a lot of attention so I'm going to play Austria first. A Catholic Austria. Probably a great way to "farm" vassals this CB.
- "Reconquest" - CB when they have my core. Always was there, always made me sell Rousillion.
- "Nationalism" - I wish it allowed to DoW everyone who has provinces with my Culture Group, not Culture. My Culture is usually united by 1450. I bet Italians, Persians and Russians will like it more than anyone else.
- "Imperialism" - Free DoW on anyone with late Govs? Late games will be carnage!
- "Revolutionary War" - I rarely play that long so all the rev. things I usually don't see. It's still good that Paradox go against our habits and work on late-game goodies to make us play longer campaigns. My typical EU3 game ended within a century, NA I played for two centuries very often, IN I usually play 300-350 years per a serious campaign. I hope HttT continues this trend and makes me play for another century.
- "Colonialism" - this is hot stuff as well. No longer will darned Portugal colonize one province right in hte middle of my colonies and sit on it for ages cause I don't have BB to spare.
- "Restoration of Union" - Lithuania/Sweden, we're coming for you!
- "Liberation" - Bill of Rights will be a powerful thing to have with this thing, England will make sense again breaking up France. Same for Japan and Ming, and many other empire-breakers. I bet it will substitute our current rebel exploit. Good thing.
- "Holy War", "Cleansing of Heresy" - I'm glad it's being nerfed, DoW-ing Marocco or Yemen to keep an union going was quite a stretch.
- "Excomm. Ruler" - will be fun with new Curia which won't be based on bribery but piety. My Austria will be so pious that I will be excomm-ing left and right.
- "Trade Dispute" - AI used to embergo left and right like there's no tomorrow, I hope it's not exploitable.
- "Imperial Ban" - another killer CB for HRE. Emperor will be a lot more pushy now and I like it a lot.
- "Violated sphere of influence" - no idea how it works but am really counting it will fix the map a bit so countries won't be stretching too long borders (for example Poland and Hungary often become "snakes" in IN).
- "Dishonourable scum" - This replaces BB-wars. I like it's a CB now, not just a generic hard-coded decision to attack me. Still dangerous but with the amount of other CBs everyone around me will have on myself I doubt it will be a big game-changer.
- "Colonial Conquest" - this will replace free of BB wars against Aztecs and Incas. They will cost something now but still will be quick and easy.
- "Obscure Documents" - I agree Fabricate Claims will be useless now with so many other possibilities.
- "Trade League Wars" - Venice or Genoa will be my 2nd game after Austria.
Summarising - I don't think I will EVER run out of countries I can attack without much consequence with this new system. There always will be someone meddling into my affairs, not sharing my religion, holding my core or culture. Seriously, the way I see HttT now after reading this document is that it will be more HoI3-like with tons of new kinds of wars, most of them being empire-breaking reconquest/liberation jobs and I like it a lot.
On a sidenote, could someone please remind me what's Alexander Faehrus' forum nickname?