Hello and welcome, I am a map modder mostly known for Project Parabellum and I would like to share a minimalist version of an improved map of Hungary. When making this map, I wanted to show how an improved Hungary would look if I increased the number of provinces by about 50% at most, taking into account the upcoming rework of Croatia in Emperor dlc.
I believe that many will agree with me when I say that Hungary is the sucker tag of Paradox games. In EU4, it is quite regularily hammered by their neighbours, while unable to make any real achievements. This may sound historical until you realise that within EU4 timeframe, Hungary effectively conquered Austria and made Vienna it's capital, among other things. Many vanilla provinces bear the name of historical counties, while barely having any resemblance to them. With few provinces and development, Hungary will almost c ertainly remain the Novgorod of central Europe.
Enter, my own version of Hungary I made in my free time.
New provinces provinces include Brassó, an important center of trade in Transylvania, Szeged, an important Hungarian town and a notable administrative center under Ottoman rule, Zolyóm, one of the largest sources of Europe's copper supply, Gyulafehervár,the capital of Transylvania during EU4 and Kozara a province representing the Hungarian counties in modern day Bosnia. There is of course much more that I added. For example, I renamed Hont to Kormocbánya, which during the early game was a very important mining town and is the oldest operational mint today. It would of course produce gold. I added Buda, the historical capital of Hungary on the Western side of the Danube. If Paradox believes that provinces bordering on rivers is not needed, an alternative way to do it would be keeping Buda as part of Pest and renaming the rest of Buda province Esztergom, which was a very important Hungarian city both for historical reasons and because it was the site of an Archbishopric. An optional thing I decided to include in the screenshot is Transylvania as a vassal, while I split Croatia into the 2 historical banates which existed in 1444: Croatia and Slavonia. This rework is, in my humble opinion, a clear improvement over the present iteration of Hungary and I would be very happy if I were to get a response from somebody like @Groogy . Hell, had I been given the opportunity, I would do the job necessary to make these changes fully operational in the base game.
This is how the areas could look:
I will finish this post with a note that adapting the map from my mod into this screenshot only took few hours and could be improved and adjusted as needed. A response from the devs would be very appreciated. I hope that something akin to this will soon make it to the game. Thanks for reading through all this and let me know if you would ever like to see a more in depth post
Some closeup shots:
I believe that many will agree with me when I say that Hungary is the sucker tag of Paradox games. In EU4, it is quite regularily hammered by their neighbours, while unable to make any real achievements. This may sound historical until you realise that within EU4 timeframe, Hungary effectively conquered Austria and made Vienna it's capital, among other things. Many vanilla provinces bear the name of historical counties, while barely having any resemblance to them. With few provinces and development, Hungary will almost c ertainly remain the Novgorod of central Europe.
Enter, my own version of Hungary I made in my free time.
New provinces provinces include Brassó, an important center of trade in Transylvania, Szeged, an important Hungarian town and a notable administrative center under Ottoman rule, Zolyóm, one of the largest sources of Europe's copper supply, Gyulafehervár,the capital of Transylvania during EU4 and Kozara a province representing the Hungarian counties in modern day Bosnia. There is of course much more that I added. For example, I renamed Hont to Kormocbánya, which during the early game was a very important mining town and is the oldest operational mint today. It would of course produce gold. I added Buda, the historical capital of Hungary on the Western side of the Danube. If Paradox believes that provinces bordering on rivers is not needed, an alternative way to do it would be keeping Buda as part of Pest and renaming the rest of Buda province Esztergom, which was a very important Hungarian city both for historical reasons and because it was the site of an Archbishopric. An optional thing I decided to include in the screenshot is Transylvania as a vassal, while I split Croatia into the 2 historical banates which existed in 1444: Croatia and Slavonia. This rework is, in my humble opinion, a clear improvement over the present iteration of Hungary and I would be very happy if I were to get a response from somebody like @Groogy . Hell, had I been given the opportunity, I would do the job necessary to make these changes fully operational in the base game.
This is how the areas could look:
I will finish this post with a note that adapting the map from my mod into this screenshot only took few hours and could be improved and adjusted as needed. A response from the devs would be very appreciated. I hope that something akin to this will soon make it to the game. Thanks for reading through all this and let me know if you would ever like to see a more in depth post
Some closeup shots:
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