#EU4 CASTILIAN CIVIL WAR MOD#

A rather destructive but ultimately fruitless war ensued, depleting the manpower of the Iberian peninsula without producing a clear winner.Īll of this is to set the stage for what happens next in this alternate reality.

I felt compelled to defend my political and marital alliances in Navarre and was vaguely peeved by the lack of respect from my cousins. Unfortunately, Aragon’s King John (II) had similar ideas (along with, admittedly, a better historical basis for them) and, after a brief civil war within Navarre, he attacked the tiny country with the combined forces of Aragon and its puppet in Naples. I had hoped to bring Navarre closer in to the Castile branch with some strategic marriages and even had some hope of a direct inheritance of the Navarrian crown. The Trastámaras have their hands in the running of Castile, Aragon, and Navarre, but getting along with the cousins doesn’t seem to be a family trait. The war went smoothly, but I only managed to grab about 2/3rds of the territory in the final treaty.

#EU4 CASTILIAN CIVIL WAR MOD#

EU IV has recently updated, obsoleting the Charles V mod that I was looking forward to, so I already started thinking maybe I should just concentrate on the 15th century rather than the 16th.Īs soon as I could do so without blatantly violating various treaties, I relaunched the Reconquista for to take Granada from the ruling Moslem Emirate. In all, it feels a lot easier to wander away from the history books into an alternate reality.Īgain, I thought I’d give EU IV another spin trying to reproduce the conditions that lead to the Charles V -led Holy Roman Empire, this time starting the game in 1444. But there are also a lot more little choices, and small randomly assigned variations, which potentially could have some real impact. Yes, there are still the events and triggers, with the appropriate historical choices. In the latest version of EU, it has become a little more complicated. But particularly if you were striving for historical fidelity, you could probably follow right along with the history books. In some cases, those events would give the player a choice – do you support the Lancasters or the Yorkists?, for example. Events would triggered by a combination of the current situation and the date, roughly imposing a backdrop of history over your player-driven narrative. I EU/ EU II, this historical timeline was heavily event driven. I pondered this as I played another early-Renaissance scenario from Europa Universalis IV. Castile and Portugal could have easily been the basis for that empire. The designer explains that it was by no means forgone that Spain would form from a union between Castile and Aragon. One of the explanations is justifying the cities of Toledo and Granada being located in Portugal, which takes up the better part of the Iberian peninsula. There is a note in the documentation for Pax Renaissance, explaining some of the “wrong” geography on the map cards. So it is with the unification of Spain under, first, Ferdinand and Isabella, and then, under Emperor Charles. Reading a history book, it is often remarkable how unlikely the historical outcome seems to have been, given the odd sequence of events that got us here.

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