EU4 - Development Diary - 2nd of July 2019

[ToMLD]

U = Units
M = Mercenaries
T = Templates

So mercenaries will come from certain provinces on the map, can players create their own mercenary companies? like replacing the condotierre mechanic with that

 

[Metz]

Can estates be competitive over provinces instead of assigned in an all or nothing manner?

 

[zweihander]

I hope that each Merc. Company can has its own specific unit graphic.

P.S. I don't mean that Devs must create special unit models arts for every Merc. Company, providing a data-vise definition to define specific Merc. Company unit graphics for modders is good enough.

 

[Rocketskates]

not a surprise, take your time
i thought redesigning the estates is not just complete removal

 

[zweihander]

What does UMT mean?

 

[TheDungen]

Proper mercenary companies!

Yeah though 30.000 men seems a bit much for your avarage mercenary company. Maybe The Light of Italy could field that many but I think most mercenary companies were somewhat smaller than that.

Does this mean we are no longer assigning estates to provinces?! If this is the situation, how you will adapt the rajput regiments with the new system since number of regiments directly related to assigned provinces

It would be a great help, especially for that mission for the Mughals where you have to hand the Rajputs a certain number of provinces in some specific areas, because the ai may have converted provinces there to muslim and then you might not be able to get enough provinces to fullfill the mission.

What does UMT mean?

U = Units
M = Mercenaries
T = Templates

Most Likely.


As for loading screens if they're redesigning mercenaries then Federico da Montefeltro (The Light of Italy) ought to be the guy on the loading screen.

 

[JasonBanner]

Will there be elepehant mercenaries?

 

[Rewdiee]

Glogow 10% Tax Modifier as tradition confirmed. Huge.

 

[Willem IV]

U = Units
M = Mercenaries
T = Templates

So mercenaries will come from certain provinces on the map, can players create their own mercenary companies? like replacing the condotierre mechanic with that

I hope that templates will be saved separately. As I often use the same combination of units.

 

[adin85]

Will Mercenaries have own historical bonuses? Does Republics will have more mercenaries than other types Governments?.

 

[ZenGenesis]

Just some late ideas and critisism on the austria dev diary

First of all: My home city of Steyr - old capital city of Styria - has taken it's rightful place on the Map. (Maybe a Styrian mission idea here...)
I'm so happy right now.
Thank you Paradox

By the way, has Styria finally a core on Steiermark?
It has always been strange for me that as Styria's real name is Steiermark, it doesnt have a core on the province.
Also the Province should probably called Obersteiermark (Upper Styria) anyway and the capital should rather be Leoben than Judenburg.
I study in Leoben so I know more than a litte bit about the regions history and Leoben at that time (as it is today) was vastly more important and lager than Judenburg.

 

[TolHydra]

it is not supposed to stay.

Well, that's a bummer.

I'll gift a copy of eu4 to friends and family for every quote mocking the British.

 

[Caligula Caesar]

By the way, has Styria finally a core on Steiermark?

It does indeed

 

[otaats]

Look for what isn't there

Hey, where is Krakow's trade center modifier?

 

[Numenem]

Will you fix or try to improve anything about Iberia in this patch, after GA problems?

 

[MatRopert]

Well, that's a bummer.

I'll gift a copy of eu4 to friends and family for every quote mocking the British.

I might have reused it in a tooltip knowing that the heading wouldn't stay...

 

[Kaampper]

I love that there are going to be Mercenary companies, but straight out of the blue 32,000 is way too many, that will not stop the merc spam..

I had been thinking and no way do i believe armies at this point, or any point in history were there this many mercenaries, i think at most maybe there were 10k mercs involved in a war..

 

[Tanh]

I really hope that this hint

relates to the condottieri mechanic and does not hint at a complete overhaul of the mercenary system. It would be great if you could put one of your armies up for sale as condottieri. It would however be disastrous if the only way you could hire mercenaries is by paying entire mercenary companies. Here is when I typically use mercenaries: In the early game when I need to fight a tough war or multiple wars back to back and after 1630 when I am constantly fighting wars and rebels due to the game only being about blobbing at that point. In the first instance you would typically only hire a couple mercenary regiments, an entire army of mercs would bancrupt you if you start as a small tag. Not being able to hire single mercenary regiments in an instance where every singular increase to your force limit makes all the difference would ruin your experience. I really hope that stays in the game, but then why bother with the merc company mechanic? In the second instance you have no other choice than to rely on mercenaries, as manpower simply does not recover fast enough and there are too many sources that drain manpower needlessly. Here is an example from real history: Napoleon knew that even if his entire army would be wiped out to the last man, after two years of peace we would be able to field a new army at full strength again. In this example I am of course talking about the super late game, but there is simply no way that manpower recovers fast enough even in the age of revolutions. If we should rely more on regular units then manpower recovery needs to be significantly faster. As an instance of the game needlessly draining your manpower I would point at the attrition mechanics: I am sure everyone has encountered a situation in which you want to use a full stack (combat width x2) for battle only to discover that the only province in which that stack does not suffer attrition is your capital. I do not wish to play the late game at speed 2 and watch it like a hawk only to prevent all the silly manpower losses from attrition in my own land. That of course could easily be fixed by removing attrition in owned provinces entirely (even if someone then makes a screenshot of a 500k Russian stack in a 3 dev province in Siberia not suffering attrition it would be significantly better than the current system) or by simply increasing the supply limit of a province to combat width x2 of the tag that owns it. You could then change it to say 75% for a province you occupy and 50% for a province you do not occupy.
If the devs really want to nerf mercs, I believe they first need to buff manpower recovery speed in the second half of the game. If people still rely on mercs too much at that point then they could attach upkeep cost modifiers and combat modifiers depending on the age (say upkeep is 1.5x that of a regular and they receive +2.5% extra discipline in the age of discovery and upkeep is 5x that of a regular and they receive -7.5% discipline in the age of revolutions) and if that still is not good enough they could just implement a constant upper bound for mercs any tag can hire (say 50k) and remove all associated modifierers (available mercs). That way you could still use mercs to help out in the early game regardless of the tag you start with, but you could no longer rely on them in the late game and you would no longer see "merc spam".

 

[randerson1893]

Looks like you can buy a cardinal

 

[BoomKidneyShot]

Looks like you can buy a cardinal

More likely this is the "Papal Influence" we saw before.