So I just found out about historical capitals in the 1.4 open beta and they give +50 proximity. A location becomes a historical capital once you move your starting capital to somewhere else. As far as I can tell, only your starting capital is eligible for becoming a historic one. I discovered this by accident in one of my campaigns where Austria shifted it's capital (image 2). I tested if the proximity is stackable with a governor and I can tell you it is (image 3). So you can basically move your capital somewhere else, and build a governor in your old one and you have two +100 proximity sources, giving you essentially 2 capitals. Now you may ask, how to get the third capital? That's by winning the Italian Wars. You can also stack the proximity of the Italian Administration Center with a governor, so you can have 3 +100 proximity sources. I think this is kinda broken guys what do you think?

Sorry guys I accidentally deleted the original post that's why I repost.

What's new in 3.0

• Your ruler's rivals and nemeses become your country's rivals, and friends, lovers and soulmates start on good terms
• Artifacts come with you: crowns, swords, holy books and tapestries become works of art in your capital, with the names and descriptions they had in CK3
• Your royal court's language becomes your court language
• Big, developed realms get the laws and estate privileges EU5 gives its own countries in the same part of the world
• Every country starts with a proper marriage law, heir law and succession, whatever its government
• A country that takes over an EU5 tag keeps its own religion and culture, so Makuria stays Christian
• Land at the edge of CK3's map no longer ends up with no owner. It goes to whoever took over the rest of the country that held it in 1337
• The castles and hill forts you built stop at EU5's fort limit, so you don't start the game paying for too many forts
• EU5's own countries outside CK3's map keep their subjects and alliances
• The launcher is much smaller. It no longer needs any extra DLLs, so the download went from 6.3 MB to about 2 MB

Github page: github.com/flookieMookie/CK3toEU5/releases/tag/v3.0

Hey everyone,

I've been working on this mod for a long time, and today I'm finally releasing it. It started with a simple question: why does the AI so rarely follow the paths history actually took? It grew into something much bigger than I planned.

Imperial Ambitions pushes the AI along the great historical paths of the age and brings each one to life with events, characters and nearly 500 custom advances. Here's what's in it:

-The Rise of the Ottomans-

A full historical campaign chain, with its own casus belli and peace settlement for every stage: the Balkans and Bosnia, Anatolia, the intervention in Crimea, the Mamluk Wars (Marj Dabiq, the road to Cairo), Mohács and the three-way partition of Hungary, the Barbary coast, the Two Iraqs, and finally Vienna and the Holy League. If you play the Ottomans yourself, you get an illustrated choice event at each stage and can commit or skip.

It also adds the "Devshirme", a levy every ten years that brings trained courtiers to your court, and the "Princely Sancaks", where you can send your princes out to govern as part of their training.

-The Fall of the Golden Horde-

This is the part I'm proudest of. When the Horde's armies are broken, it splits along its historical lines: the Great Horde, Crimea, Kazan, Sibir, the Uzbeks and the Nogai. Each one starts with its real founder and family (Hacı Giray, Ulugh Muhammad, Abu'l-Khayr…), its own flag, a founding army and an advance tree.

Then the story keeps going. When Küchük Muhammad dies, his son Mahmud breaks away and founds Astrakhan. The Great Horde slowly declines and is eventually carved up by Crimea and Astrakhan. From 1550, Muscovy comes for Kazan and Astrakhan.

-More-

- 17 new Dynamic Historical Events, 12 of them for Crimea: from Bağçasaray and the Fountain of Tears to Moscow Burns and the Last Great Raid

- "A race for Iran" among the post-Ilkhanid dynasties, which ends after four consolidation wars, so Persia neither stays shattered forever nor blobs instantly

- AI restraint for states that shouldn't snowball: the Ruthenian principalities, Georgia, Wallachia, the Mamluks and Bohemia. This only applies to the AI, so you can still play them however you like

- Historical AI personalities for 30 countries

- 490 custom advances across 30+ nations, from the Jochid khanates to Burgundy, Andalusia and the Mughals

A few notes:

- It's built for EU5 1.3. I'll update it for 1.4 once 1.4 is officially released.

- Start a new game when you use it.

- It replaces a few base game files, so it will conflict with mods that edit the same ones. The full list is on the Workshop page.

Workshop link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3813524452

I'd really love to hear your feedback, bug reports and ideas. This is my first big release, so be honest. And if you enjoy it and want to support the work, there's a

Patreon:(https://www.patreon.com/cw/Airdae). The mod is and always will be completely free.

Thanks for reading!

R5: All Muslim countries received a massive buff this patch with the new bureaucraties. But Tlemcen specifically is a very special case, as it may now have one of the highest (if not straight up the highest) base max control ceiling in the game, and achievable fairly early at that.

Tlemcen starts with a unique government reform (only available for this tag), "Bānu 'Abd āl-Wād Investiture", providing +5% max control at 100% tribes satisfaction (the tooltip says 10% max control but it is wrong). It also gives +0.20 legitimacy and +100% tribes levy size, at the cost of an overall -25% levy size.

They can combine this with Tribal Strongholds, a Tribes privilege giving +5% max control in rural.

Add to this the new Mazalim Court bureaucracy for +10% max control with 100% entrenchment. You can easily grab it at the start of Age 2 with the Islamic Jurisprudence advance.

Add to this Barony Rule, an Age 3 government reform requiring 50+ Decentralization and 50+ Aristocracy for +5% max control in rural.

Now switch to Ibadi and you will have access to the "Centralize the Majlis 'Ammi Sa'īd" decision, requiring 28 provinces in the "Ibadi heartland of the Maghreb" and over 40 stability. This decision unlocks the "Centralized Majlis 'Ammi Sa'īd" government reform that provides yet another 5% max control (and other goodies).

Work toward the "Masters of the Sahara" decision that gives +2.5% max control as well (the requirements include having 15 provinces in the Sahara with 18+ development though and it's gonna take a while, in this campaign I have not reached this point yet).

With all this, in a core rural location with 0 proximity, you get:
20 (core) + 5 (Tlemcen unique reform) + 5 (Ibadi unique reform) + 10 (Mazalim Court) + 5 (Tribes privilege) + 5 (Barony Rule) + 2.5 (Masters of Sahara) = 52.5% base max control. Add a Bailiff on top of that and you get rural locations up to 72.5% control with 0 proximity. This is just an insane number, which again is achievable very early (at least 70%, if we ignore Masters of Sahara). Add and stack some proximity on top of it and you may very well get near 100 control in most of your land as the game goes on.

Urban locations can also reach very high ceilings with just the Tlemcen and Ibadi unique reforms combined with Mazalim Court and Masters of Sahara, along with the usual max control buffs from city rank, council halls, etc.

All this makes Tlemcen extremely rewarding to play. On top of it, switching to Ibadi also gives access to the "Claim Rustamid Legacy" decision, giving +1 cabinet seat and changes your colour to a beautiful dark blue (!!) . Ibadi also has some very strong laws, giving prosperity, morale, and one giving +50% levy size.

The start is tough as you begin at war with Morocco and Tunis, and fighting a two front war in the Maghreb with no fort to prevent them from occupying almost all of your land is not very pleasant, to say the least. But your levies are extremely strong. I had to restart quite a few times until I find an efficient way of winning this war and take max money from Morocco. Most of your land is also not core at start, so you will have to go over culture cap and accept Algerian, Kabyle, and Mozabite.

From there you slowly improve your economy (I personally built a market in Tlemcen), build a couple of forts to secure your borders, and later on take on Tunis and Morocco. In this campaign I am planning to form Morocco (tier 2) after killing it for its strong advances, then Al Andalus (tier 3), and finally Carthage (tier 4).

Overall having a lot of fun with it, and definitely recommend giving it a try. It truly feels like a rags to riches campaign, with huge early challenges but big potential rewards, well spaced during the campaign, which is something I miss a little in Eu5. I can see these numbers being nerfed because 72.5% max control with 0 proximity is just ridiculous, but I hope we keep getting this kind of love & unique rewards for underdog tags because that's exactly what makes playing these nations fun in my opinion.

Each region has their history.

Countries come and go, technology progresses, crafts develop. But we assume that, for the full stretch of 500 years, the main materials extracted and the overall economy in a location will stay the same.

This does not feel alive.

There are locations, where livestock grazes in 1337 and despite in reality this would become a place of mining and industry, we are going to see livestock being the RGO in 1837.

There are locations which are nothing but wilderness and would be suitable to nothing but fur trade - but because in 1750, gold will be discovered there, we'll start 1337 with a gold RGO.

This is an attempt to making things more dynamic.

I upgraded the [RGO Mod] to allow for progressive research unlocks, bound by the region and defined by history.

There are 72 Regions in the game, with topography, vegetation and climate (and people), and a lot happens within 500 years. Getting this structured was a headache.

Here is the approach, done for each region:

1. Research the region's history across the 500 years (economics, trade, politics, ..)
2. Cluster this history into the EU5 ages (Traditions, Renaissance, Discovery, ...)
3. Derive what Goods where of greatest relevance in that Region, in the given EU5 age
4. Map the EU5 goods to those real goods
5. Determine reasonable boundary conditions where those goods could be RGO'd (e.g. only coastal zones in Anatolia for cotton in Agen of Reformation - yes, i also was very surprised) - so that we don't end up with spamming whatever RGOs just everywhere, and keep close to history
6. Add a Region-specific research item to unlock this RGO in the (Topography x Vegetation x Climate)
7. Test, Test, Test (and still not everything can be tested - I'm relying on the community here to get feedback and bug reports, pls feel encouraged to send a message :) )
8. Release - Today. Yay!

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One Example: East Coast is one of 72 Regions in EU5

When unlocked, what unlocked, on which tiles, and how many tiles are eligible to be converted

East Coast

Region key: east_coast_region Land locations: 648

Age	Research unlock	RTV	Tiles
Traditions	Fur	hills + forest + continental	75 / 648 (11.6%)
Renaissance	Lumber	flatland + forest + continental	96 / 648 (14.8%)
Discovery	Tobacco	flatland + forest + subtropical	157 / 648 (24.2%)
Reformation	—	—	—
Absolutism	Iron	mountains + forest + continental	19 / 648 (2.9%)

Story

Age of Traditions. Eastern Woodlands peoples: maize-beans-squash agriculture, fishing, and deer hunting; wampum and fur internal trade. No wheat or iron industry.

Age of Renaissance. Atlantic coast increasingly visited by fishers; fur trade with external contacts. Indigenous agriculture stable in the interior. Lumber extracted from dense forests.

Age of Discovery. English and Dutch colonies (Virginia, New England): tobacco, cod, and fur; maize adopted by settlers. Timber (shift to renaissance) for ships and potash.

Age of Reformation. Tobacco and fur exports peak; grain production grows in middle colonies. Naval stores (pitch, tar) from pine forests.

Age of Absolutism. Diversified colonial exports: tobacco, rice (south), wheat and livestock (middle), fish and timber (north). Iron furnaces appear in northern colonies late.

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You can imagine that doing this for 72 regions is a massive effort, and there will be inaccuracies in this first release. Yet I hope this will open the door towards a more dynamic, and more strategic playstyle around what is the basis of the EU5 economy: RGOs.

r5: Started this ERE to Roman Empire campaign back when 1.2 first dropped. It took a while but after 5 months i finally can say that im proud of how this turned out.

R5: Spain is at war with Russia at the moment and raised all levies then parked them near my border, I destroyed their navy from the previous war so they have no ship to ship them out

So I started as Verona in 1.3.11. The move to 1.4 was super smooth with one caveat, please see below.

Conquered northern Italy during the Skalinger War (took about 4-5 wars running in parallel) and pressed the claims to erase the Antagonism. Basically it was me and Naples left in Italy.

After that released Florence, reconquered it immediately and released and played as Florence. That’s necessary to reset myself later to Tier 1 country again.

Conquered my former boss Verona and inherited all its vassals coalition free.

It was 1380s already so I attacked into the Ottomans and Anatolia, flipped to Turkish, and joined the Ottoman Rise situation as the leader.

That’s when 1.4 dropped and I realised that it’s beautiful — but — it drops you out of the Leader of the Turk reform as soon as you change the culture. It was too late to adjust, so I retuned to 1.3 for a few years, flipped to Bulgarian, formed Bulgaria (Tier 1), flipped to Greek and Orthodox, formed Greece (Tier 2) and Byzantium (I guess Tier 3?), reinstalled 1.4.

On the month tick the game made me Rūm (Tier 4) and then I was able to become Rome (Tier 4 or 5).

Flipped back to Catholic on demand of the HRE Emperor and that triggered the Tuscan event which turned me into Tuscany, Tier 1 again. Unfortunately, it removed my Republic and made me into a Monarchy, but fine.

After that conquered Austria with the “Restore Roman Borders” CB, flipped culture to Danube or something, and became Austria.

Currently sitting at 118 unique advances, see photo.

I guess my next plan is to go East and become Manchu, then form Russia for all the proximity bonuses, and eventually China via the Manchu event. Then maybe HRE?

If anyone has any suggestions, please share!

I think this event was clearly meant for anatolia. Kinda funny that it can just trigger in regions that are not and were never muslim lol

Greetings on this most glorious of days. I, eva3071, have released v3.0 of the mod for the public. This is pretty much my first substantive update of the mod, while version 1.0 and 2.0 were basically barebones. This, I hope, fixes the underlying problems for the Eastern Roman Empire that was present in patch 1.0 of Europa Universalis V, and subsequently the added problems to the Roman State in patch 1.2 "Echinades"

Here are the changes:

-Features-

Eastern Roman Empire:

1. Has 4 unique government reforms, and reworked 12 unique governments.
2. Has new "Acclamation Succession" succession law.
3. Has 3 new unique policies.
4. Has access to the generic asian advances that the Ottomans have access to.
5. Reworked Municipia Privileges.
6. New unique societal value to replace the old one: Rhomanismós vs Hellenismós.
7. Slight rework to the Fate of the Phoenix cabinet actions.
8. 7 new events, 20 new decisions, and 1 unique estate privileges.
9. Reworked Pronoia Subject. Komnenian and Reformed Pronoia enable
   non- hereditary pronoia subjects.
10. Latinized Greek translations of areas and provinces for the Roman imperial
    borders.
11. Megalopolis is now Metropolis
12. Reworked the ERE's game start to be more historical.
13. the Eastern Roman Empire now has proper glorious tyrian purple color.
14. Orthodox Christianity, as the imperial faith, also has glorious tyrian purple color.
15. Greek culture has glorious modern greek blue color.
16. New Event that grants the owned location of Rome the historical capital
    modifier.
17. New event that allows stateless cultures in the Empire to approve their cultural
    opinion of your primary culture.

Of course, it would be remiss to let you know that while the mod itself is complete, the vanilla patch v1.4.0 open beat is and Open Beta, so play at your own risk. The mod itself is sound, and is structured in such a way that the innumerable and unrelenting updates Paradox Tinto is going to do to v1.4 won't cause the mod to become out of date. Think of it as early access until Tinto drops the public version of v1.4.

You can find the mod on steam at:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3604070407

You can also find my discord channel Heaven Can Wait Modworks at:
https://discord.gg/93dN9Y6c3

Enjoy!