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This mod definitely makes the area more detailed. But you're also making it more powerful, since each new county adds more holdings and thereby more tax and levies to the area...
This mod definitely makes the area more detailed. But you're also making it more powerful, since each new county adds more holdings and thereby more tax and levies to the area...
Looks great, although when Stavelot Malmedy is added, you could also have Antwerpen and Breda. (The Lordship of Breda (later split in Breda and Bergen op Zoom) was a vassal of Brabant; although admittedly I'm from Western North Brabant). Another suggestion is to split of the county of Berg from the Köln province. The CoA of Berg is similar to the CoA of Limburg, however it is langued azure and not or.
This will be an issue for every area, which will be improved. Although didn't provinces have a limit to the maximum amount of holdings? If so, then more provinces should mean less holdings in each province.
compatible with the demo ?
(...) admittedly I'm from Western North Brabant (...) Especially the Luxembourg/Luxemburg & Liege/Luik/Lüttich-region is quite detailed.
1, personally live near the city of Antwerp, but I try to look at the regional history through neutral glasses. (It helps that my family originates from the region that once was the county of Loon - I actually downsized the county; the county is way too big in vanilla.)
2 Luxemburg is more detailed, because I think it is incorrect to represent the entire duchy of Luxemburg as one single county. There were multiple counties in the region. The largest of which were Chiny and La Roche. There also were the counties of Arlon and Durbuy, the "duchy" of Bouillon, and the region around Salm also had greater autonomy (but I'm not sure if it actually was a county). I've deliberatly left those counties out for reasons concerning gameplay and balance. I know the historical accuracy had to suffer, but well.. That's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. (Godfried, Lord of Bouillon and later Duke of Lower Lorraine, would eventually be the first King of Jerusalem!)
Liege still is one county, but I have split off Stavelot because it was an Imperial Abbey; a direct vassal of the emperor. Since the "county" only hold two holdings (temples) it does not greatly affect the gameplay. (They do not tend to expand, can not be owned by the player, can not be owned by the "same" bishops for multiple "generations", and tend to be more loyal to the pope than to any actual feudal lord.)
1: As do I, I only added that information to be complete. In North Brabant we're proud of our Brabantine heritage though; and I admit to have an interest in the history of the duchy of Brabant. In fact Western North Brabant historically was considered a part of the 'quarter' of Antwerpen in the duchy of Brabant, and not the 'quarter' of 's-Hertogenbosch, like eastern and middle North Brabant. Furthermore the 'original' lordship of Breda was later split in the barony of Breda and the marquisate of Bergen op Zoom.
2: Splitting off the county of Berg from Köln would improve that part of the Rhineland in a similar way as adding those counties in the 'Luxembourg' region.
Finally something about the CoA, although I don't exactly like the CoA of Lower Lorraine (should be identical as to the CoA of Austria), but the CoA used for the duchy of Burgundy (Bourgogne) is actually the CoA of Arles...
Was there already a Dutch culture back then?
As the person who wrote the original Lotharingia mod for Crusader Kings, thank you for this! It saved me the effort of doing it myself.
Compared to my original Kingdom, I would recommend adding Mainz and removing Munster and Kleeve. I based this on historical maps of Lotharingia which included the former and not the latter. Depending on how much research you did, you may be right and I may be wrong.