Europa Universalis V confirmed

[Sheilbh]

I think EUIV's start in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Varna makes sense.  1453 would take Byzantium off the board and piss off all the Byzanteens.

Good

[garbon]

CK2 allowed any start date, which was a great feature. . .

Obviously, the problems with Muscovy and the Ottomans are linked to the start date.  From the standpoint of 1337, there is really no reason to believe those two polities would emerge as great powers.  It is just as likely to have been any of a number of other states.  P-dx is caught between a rock and a hard place: they give some special content to boost them, but not enough so that the AI will reliably bring them to full power.  Give too much, and and it trivializes them for the human player.

As I said earlier, I think it has been a tension for them for sometime. Perhaps since creation of the series.

I would think best might just be to encourage some state in each region to vaguely do what historically happened. So Golden Horde should fall and one of the Russian principalities should often gain power.

It wouldn't always be the historical one nor would it always happen but some broad strokes of history would be nice to see.

[garbon]

I think EUIV's start in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Varna makes sense.  1453 would take Byzantium off the board and piss off all the Byzanteens.

Good

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Good

I had a feeling you were going to say that.