Shippable Rivers

[Takeo92]

I dont know if the term is correct, but honestly..

let us use galleys and tradeing ships in large rivers like volga, rhine, donau, nile, yangtze, mekong, niger, missisipi, lena, huang he..

Hell those rivers (except rhine/donau) are bloody huge, the huang he for instance has an average width of 20 kilometers.

You cant tell me there is no galley fitting into that. You can ship entire fleets in an 20 kilometer wide river. I mean, im fine if heavy ships cant pass rivers, thats logical, but galleys and trading ships should be able to cross huge rivers..

 

[hwoosh]

It's a good suggestion. Also bugs me that the game can't model, for example, the naval war of 1812 in the Great Lakes, which was of huge strategic importance. (But I doubt we'll ever see any change on this, at least till EU5. It would require just too huge an overhaul.)

 

[Wildcat_PL]

I believe there was a mod, not sure if finished or WIP, that does exactly this. mods the map to ad navigable rivers - only the big ones. Some lakes were added as seazones (closed sea) too.