Higher cost for oversea wars, please

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It may be a little too late to suggest this, but I still hope Paradox can increase the cost for oversea wars, making oversea wars more expensive (and more difficult) to fight, such as to rule out small countries fighting oversea colonial wars in Asia and Africa (otherwise they'll risk bankruptcy and failure because of the high military cost). This can help to model why Italy could win the Italo-Turkish War in neighboring Libya, but failed the First Italo-Ethiopian War in remote Ethiopia. After all, fighting a war in your "neighborhood" is logistically quite different from a oversea one.

 

[OHgamer]

It may be a little too late to suggest this, but I still hope Paradox can increase the cost for oversea wars, making oversea wars more expensive (and more difficult) to fight, such as to rule out small countries fighting oversea colonial wars in Asia and Africa (otherwise they'll risk bankruptcy and failure because of the high military cost). This can help to model why Italy could win the Italo-Turkish War in neighboring Libya, but failed the First Italo-Ethiopian War in remote Ethiopia. After all, fighting a war in your "neighborhood" is logistically quite different from a oversea one.

The reason Italy lost in Ethiopia had nothing to do with distance, and everything to do with the Ethiopians buying tons of weapons from French gunrunners in Djibouti, and having enough trained leaders to make those guns effective against the rather incomptetent Italian generals at Adwa.

But distance wasn't that much of an issue, the Italians had a huge army in Eritrea and had no problem keeping the supplies running between Rome and Massawa. The British did not at all attempt to restrict the Italians use of Suez (the British expected, and to a degree hoped, the Italians would win).

 

[makotech222]

That can probably be modded in if you really want to. There are specific lines in the .txts for oversea provinces, at least in EU3 there is.

 

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The reason Italy lost in Ethiopia had nothing to do with distance, and everything to do with the Ethiopians buying tons of weapons from French gunrunners in Djibouti, and having enough trained leaders to make those guns effective against the rather incomptetent Italian generals at Adwa.

But distance wasn't that much of an issue, the Italians had a huge army in Eritrea and had no problem keeping the supplies running between Rome and Massawa. The British did not at all attempt to restrict the Italians use of Suez (the British expected, and to a degree hoped, the Italians would win).

Even still, I think it would be nice to see global power projection limited for practical purposes to fairly major countries.