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Hello everyone, and welcome to this weeks development diary for EU4.

This week I want to talk about the loadingscreens of EU4. Our goal is to add to the pool of loadingscreens every time we do a major update, so that you have a large variety of cool pictures to view while the harddrive is booting up the game.

Each picture represents one country in the game, and we do not plan to have more than 1 loading screen for each nation. There is also one of the most iconic leaders of that nation on the picture, as well as a location which represents that nation.

And when making expansions, it is very much important that the country picked fits the theme for it.

Original Game
We shipped with 5 different loading screens, representing about half of the major powers of the era.
Sweden - Gustavus II Adolphus & Stockholm Archipelago
Spain - Isabella & Carribean Islands
England - Elizabeth I & Cliffs of Dover
France - Louis XIV France & French Farmlands
Ottomans - Suleiman the Magnificent & Haga Sophia

Conquest of Paradise
Iroqouis - Hiawatha & Niagara Falls

Wealth of Nations
Venice - Andrea Gritti & City of Venice

Res Publica
Netherlands - Maurice of Nassau & Windmills at Canals

Art of War
Russia - Catherine the Great & Siberia

El Dorado
Aztecs - Montezuma & Tenochtitlan

Common Sense
Austrai - Charles V & The Alps

And for our new 1.13 patch, we are adding a loading screen for Poland, with Jan Sobieski and the Jasna Gora Monastery!

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We still aim to have pictures for Portugal, Denmark & Prussia of the europeans majors, but it needs to fit thematically for the expansions. Not that I can think of any important Danish ruler through history.. pokes @Groogy :)
 
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How about reformation of military subsystem?
Where are the differencies between linear tactic and shock tactic?
Where are separate units for linear and light cavalry, linear infantry and shooters?
Why we can't control own reserves at the battles?

Loading screens are not the most important elements of the game.
 
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ppigor said:
How about reformation of military subsystem?
Where are the differencies between linear tactic and shock tactic?
Where are separate units for linear and light cavalry, linear infantry and shooters?
Why we can't control own reserves at the battles?
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Because an army at the game is just a model of real world, and no need to be exact same with an army of real world.
 
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Arris said:
Somehow I doubt that all the cossacks wanted to become part of Russia since one of results was splitting Ukraine and part with Kiev in it went to Russia.
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- cossack wanted their autonomy and status elevation, they got both of those. Well, considering your avatar i doubt we have same view on history of the region, so i dont think that anything productive will came from further conversation.
 
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Cause it's only myth that perpetuate through society that he saved Christian Europe or other BS. Ottomans wouldn't win the war and Austria as usual would hide behind the walls waiting till winter comes as they did during first siege. They would bleed themselves to death and PLC would only gain from weakening 2 potential threat to them. Beside king never demanded anything in return from it despite him whining all night all day about taking back Silesia one day. Not to mention less than 100 years later Austria returned favor by participation in Partition of PLC and seizing Starostwo Spiskie some time before it. As I said before he led PLC to another war despite all disasters that happened to country few years back. He is disgrace to our country nothing else.
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Much respect for Jan Sobieski but mind you Austria intervened militarily on behalf of the PLC during the Deluge against Sweden from 1657 onwards prior to the 1683 when the siege of Vienna occured; PLC had first pick of plunder from the battle and taking part in the Great Turkish war (1683-1699) enabled PLC to regain territories lost in the previous PLC-Ottoman war (1672-1676). It's a bit selective to say the weakening of Austria/not joining the Holy League or participating in the relief of the siege Vienna would've not been in Polish-Lithuanian interests. Participating in the Partitions was unfortunate but to imply ungratefulness is to have a bit of a selective memory ignoring certain parts of history.

All that done, can we please do something about Poland's prestige. She really can't hold that union for some reason. or at least if they lose the union let the new dynasty in Lithuanian be the same as the current dynasty in Poland so they at least get a chance of getting it back.
 
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MyFaceBurns said:
Fixed that for you.
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Epic meme. :^)

Wiz said:
Constantine XI in worn-out clothes in front of a bunch of ruined city districts?
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I laughed at first, but the more I think about it, the more giving Constantine XI a loading screen makes sense - the fall of Constantinople was an extremely important event, the Empire itself was a very influencial nation for centuries(though, at the game start, it's pretty much a shadow of what it used to be). Also, don't forget that you've already made "Purple Phoenix" DLC about Byzantine surviving!
 
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My top 10 list:
1. Vlad the Impaler with the Impaled ones, but better candidates for romanians will be Michael the Brave or Stephan III the Great
2. Cesare and Rodrigo Borgia, with Rome in background
3. Oda Nobunaga and Kyoto
4. Seonjo of Joseon and with turtle ships
5. Shah Ismail I of Persia
6. Jean Parisot de Vallete, the grand master of Malta Knights
7. Shunzhi of the Qing dynasty
8. Sonni Ali of Songhai Empire
9. Ahmud al-Mansur of Morroco
10. Matthias Corvinus of Hungary
 
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Wiz said:
Constantine XI in worn-out clothes in front of a bunch of ruined city districts?
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Blasphemer! Sadly, you're right but you still have to REPENT, SINNER!
 
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Vlad III Dracula,need to become a Load Screen

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Lostintheclouds said:
Much respect for Jan Sobieski but mind you Austria intervened militarily on behalf of the PLC during the Deluge against Sweden from 1657 onwards prior to the 1683 when the siege of Vienna occured; PLC had first pick of plunder from the battle and taking part in the Great Turkish war (1683-1699) enabled PLC to regain territories lost in the previous PLC-Ottoman war (1672-1676). It's a bit selective to say the weakening of Austria/not joining the Holy League or participating in the relief of the siege Vienna would've not been in Polish-Lithuanian interests. Participating in the Partitions was unfortunate but to imply ungratefulness is to have a bit of a selective memory ignoring certain parts of history.

All that done, can we please do something about Poland's prestige. She really can't hold that union for some reason. or at least if they lose the union let the new dynasty in Lithuanian be the same as the current dynasty in Poland so they at least get a chance of getting it back.
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Austria helped PLC only two times around Kraków and retake some cities in Prussia. Thanks to war with Ottos we took completely destroyed Podole and that's all where Austria took quite land grab. Besides saying it was unfortunate it's a little bit insulting, they invaded PLC prior to it by seizing Spisz and didn't mind entering alliance with its enemies Prussia to kill PLC instead of siding with them to retain so called balance that Europeans powers where freaked about. Moreover Habsburgs were PLC enemies from the begining everytime PLC wanted to kill Teutons they intervened to stop fighting. Only waving interest from Habsburgs to help them and conversion it allowed to vassalize them.
 
+1 for Dracula. Sadly, I will have to do it myself since there is zero chance Paradox will.
 
If we must have a Bathory, could it please be Elisabeth?
 
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