Merchant republics are banned from colonising Asia and Africa

[Johan]

It will be only provinces in states.

 

[Johan]

This still seems like a very low limit. As one obvious example, forming Italy as a merchant republic would be far more than the 20 provinces, so you could not have all of Italy as States.

I see the purpose of limiting merchant republic expansion, to give them a different gameplay. The way this is handled seems like an arbitrary hard limit. The fact that the limit is only 20 provinces makes it far more harsh and arbitrary.

Its a "soft" cap though.


As you say, MR is supposed be another type of gameplay though.