Europa Universalis V confirmed

[PRC]

and Tunis seems to be the bad boy of the Med.

I'm still learning a lot of the game's systems and I've been playing a new playthrough as Castile... their relatively easy start has been great to learn and play around in.

Quoted this because Tunis has also been a beast in my current game!  I was kicking Morocco & Granada off the peninsula and it has been Tunis that has successfully come to their rescue.  They were able to land a large contingent of levies in Northern Spain, enslave my people, and forced me to sue for peace, the bastards!

[crazy canuck]

Yeah, your navy is stronger so you need to keep Tunis away from your lands. And don't get involved in a land war in N. Africa. You will lose population/levies to the Tunisian meat grinder.

[Josephus]

Also are galleys not the Med "meta" now? For my first naval battle with Tunis I had a mostly galley fleet only to get destroyed by a Tunis fleet made up of heavy ships

[Syt]

The beta has added EU4's border friction to "spice things up" internationally ... I guess Portugal will get eaten even more often by Spain Castille now?

[Tamas]

My biggest gripe with the decentralisation changes isn't what the majority's (omg I have learned what to click to win now I have to re-learn it - GAME IS BROKEN), but that a lot of laws give nice bonuses AND a decentralisation push. Clearly earlier in the design there was a clear "centralisation = good, decent = bad" direction. Johan's latest change removes that. If I decide to "play wide" and just accept decentralisation and use it to keeps lots of strong vassals eternally happy, why shouldn't I take all those nice laws-based bonuses as well?