Right now, if you press it as Burgundy, it straight up turns you into Netherlands, but also gives all your French region provinces (essentially everything you own that's part of modern-day France) to France.
This has never made any sense to me-I mean, can you imagine a 16th century monarch going "OK, guess I'm Dutch now-here's all these valuable, revenue-generating pieces of my land that happen to be French". That said, I don't think it should be simply removed (or ignored)-historically, the Burgundian dukes used Brussels as their de facto capital, and the Burgundian court rotated between wealthy Low Countries cities like Bruges and Lille. It's thus entirely possible that a surviving Burgundy would have become predominantly Dutch, and I think this should be a choice that the Burgundian player gets in the game-one that has an effect on subsequent gameplay. But that said, I don't think Dutch Burgundy should play like the United Provinces-it would have been a strong, centralized monarchy rather than a republic, after all.
Maybe some branching missions in the Burgundian tree that the player gets by switching their primary culture to Dutch? Or maybe a Burgundy-formed Netherlands gets a special set of missions? (And doesn't have to just give up its French provinces.)
This has never made any sense to me-I mean, can you imagine a 16th century monarch going "OK, guess I'm Dutch now-here's all these valuable, revenue-generating pieces of my land that happen to be French". That said, I don't think it should be simply removed (or ignored)-historically, the Burgundian dukes used Brussels as their de facto capital, and the Burgundian court rotated between wealthy Low Countries cities like Bruges and Lille. It's thus entirely possible that a surviving Burgundy would have become predominantly Dutch, and I think this should be a choice that the Burgundian player gets in the game-one that has an effect on subsequent gameplay. But that said, I don't think Dutch Burgundy should play like the United Provinces-it would have been a strong, centralized monarchy rather than a republic, after all.
Maybe some branching missions in the Burgundian tree that the player gets by switching their primary culture to Dutch? Or maybe a Burgundy-formed Netherlands gets a special set of missions? (And doesn't have to just give up its French provinces.)
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