Ladies and Gentlemen. Today I'm here to make everyone of you who likes clean borders weep and brake down... Some days ago I found the CK II to EU IV converter cheap in a steam-sale. Playing a bit around with it I decided to convert one of my earliest successful games as Savoy->Burgundy->Latin Empire (fun fact: even a french Latin Emperor ist called a Basileus after Conversion). Coming from an early CK II version, in which Nations where not that stable, some of the effects are... not pretty, really not pretty...
Lets have a look.
First the Baltic. Not that bad. Mostly survivors from the Golden Horde, which is stable and gigantic. Notable are the independent Teutonic Knights, even in the right place (not my doing).
Scandinavia is fairly ok too. Brunswick in Finland is the main oddity, but keep Tröndelag in mind.
The British Isles. Very clean. Jerusalem as the outcome from a crusade and some inheritances.
France and Iberia. The Latin Empire is my doing and yes, the borders aren't that pretty, this is my fault. And no, the purple bits aren't Byzantium but Greece. Who was Castile. Who won a crusade for Greece in the Middle Eastern Madness (see below) and changed his main title to Greece.
Now, the Holy Roman OMYGOD! What too say? Messy. Very messy. Remember I said to keep Tröndelag in mind? They are the Emperor under a Salian. Electors are Norway, the Teutonic Knights, Bavaria, Bohemia, Ferrara, Tuscany and Brabant.
And the real kicker: The Middle East. It is actualy a LOT cleaner than the CK II Version with tons of OPMs. That's the outcome of: Fatimids invading Byzantium and nearly destroying it (the Crown went to a Rurikid in Russia, who proceeded to build a magnificent Russian Byzantine Tzarist Empire, before getting destroyed by the Golden Horde), the Ill-Khan grabbing most of Armenia, than the Fatimids descending into civil war (that lasted somehow for several decades), the Ill-Khan descending into civil war, everyone and there mother swooping in and picking up bits and peaces (that way I was able to form the Latin Empire and that's the reason why you see me, England, Bohemia and UPER LORRAINE (the small one over Athens) there. Throw in several Crusades and Dschihads and you have the Middle Eastern Madness.
Now... I wonder if someone would really want to lead this playground of madness through the EU IV periode.