Power Projection, my one request

[Nerga]

My biggest gripe with all of the paradox strategy games, is that countries seem to be able to project their power much more easily than in history. It is far to easy in EU3, to send rather massive armies thousands of miles away. Even sending armies to one side of the Mediterranean to another was a massive expedition that took months, even then armies were not as large as if it were a local war. If you play as say, Castille, you can easily go to war with the Ottomans, and drop armies of 10k men on their shores. Or later in the game, you can go to war with India, and drop massive armies with little to no effort at all. I really hope this gets fixed. Sending massive fleets and massive armies over thousands of miles should not be possible in the EU time frame. This is kind of my pet peeve, but I think that fixing this, would really help things out. I guess this could be fixed through perhaps an increase in attrition, or some other method.

[ZechsMerquise73]

I don't usually try to get too big, because managing a large empire when you have absolutely no macro-management potential takes forever. However, the AI does become astronomical in size. Since most wars in PI games come down to pure numerical and tech advantage based "instant wins", its pretty easy for blobs to form. If the easy blobs were fixed, the player wouldn't have to become massive to stay competitive.

When all the smaller nations are out of the way and replaced by blobs, the game stops being near as fun.

[Chamboozer]

I agree very much, a rudimentary logistics system that limits one's ability to send armies everywhere would be wonderful.

[Darknesskilla]

Aye, the game's "scale" should be limited

[JakobWerle]

I one up this good thread. I like this idea very much. Now this is a few hundred years before. But even perparing for the third crusade took years to organize the combined Franco-Angleterrois fleet. Then to sail to Sicily where they stayed for many more months before continuing on. It is highly improbable that at a whim 100 vessels suddenly are ready for launch to take a 100k man army across the Mediterranean with no stops and no need to refill supplies. Maybe the implementation of Supply Ships; Cargo ships; similar to this new trade system maybe? It is well known that many fleets had ships just for treasure or supplies; that were massive hulking vessels made to supply men in the 100's even thousands in the older times.

[flame7926]

Yes, this is something that seriously needs to be worked on.