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While Voltaire’s Nightmare deliberately tries to preserve the flow of EU4’s core vanilla gameplay as much as possible, this ‘zoomed in’ map allows for a level of detail in provinces and countries that couldn’t be captured by a traditional map mod, and we’ve added plenty of new religions, cultures, techs, units, governments, ideas, monuments, events, and missions to flesh out this expanded world beyond just the addition of nations.
Empire of China mechanics from “Mandate of Heaven” have been retooled for the Kievan Rus, allowing you to expand and manage your appanages and ultimately form either Ruthenia or Russia. In 1054 the Rus are split between only a handful of major principalities, but as time goes on the Rus Princes will have to deal with the infamous Rota system of collateral succession and the fragmentation of their patrimonies into an ever-finer network of small fiefs — to say nothing of the looming arrival of the Mongols.
One of the more intriguing countries in Voltaire's Nightmare is the semi-historical nation of New England. A handful of medieval sources allege that a group of Anglo-Saxons led by Earl Siward of Gloucester departed England after the Norman Conquest and sailed to Constantinople to join the Varangian Guard. As reward for their service, the Byzantine Emperor Alexios Komnenos later rewarded these Anglo-Saxons with a strip of land located on the shores of the Black Sea. There, surrounded by heathens, they established a colony and embraced a piratical lifestyle in exile. New England is just one of several special Pirate Nations you can play as in Voltaire’s Nightmare.
Another interesting setup to play is the Kingdom of Jerusalem after the First Crusade. The Kingdom is divided into many minor baronies and also holds loose control over the larger Crusader states like Antioch in the north. Among these special subjects are the famous Hospitaller Order and Templar Order, protecting the flanks of the Holy Land through a network of fortresses. Hidden in the Syrian mountains, there is also the opposing Order of the Assassins, who seized control of several remote valleys after being expelled from Aleppo for their heretical beliefs. There's a lot going on in this region with many different religions and political entities to explore — including the possibility of launching your own Crusade with help from across the Catholic world.
While the Reconquista is almost complete by 1444, in the eleventh and twelfth centuries we find a much more dynamic Andalusia that could be united by any Christian or Muslim power. To the south, the collapse of the Caliphate of Córdoba in 1031 has created a patchwork of minor emirates known as Taifas. Among these Taifas are the Taifa of Dénia, ruled by former Slavic slaves, the Shia Taifa of Málaga, and the Taifa of Córdoba, a republic formed in the Andalusian Caliphate’s old capital. In the north, the familiar Christian monarchies are consolidating their power to strike against the weakened Taifas. The one thing giving the Taifas some breathing room is the Tierra de Nadie, a strip of uncolonized provinces around the Duero River which represents the devastated borderland that had been left almost uninhabited on account of the constant warfare between the Christians and Muslims.
For the last few years we have mostly been adding flavor to the mod rather than new map content, but one of these days we might just get around to filling out Persia…
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The premier European music mod. Adds 24 new tracks. Each major culture group in Europe receives a peace theme and a war theme. The themes will only play when you interact with a culture (i.e. if you are at war with France you will hear France’s war music). Also includes a bonus theme for Rome if you can keep Byzantium alive.
Music for Viking enjoyers. Adds 8 music tracks inspired by and focused on the Nordic countries. You will hear this music if you are active in, and around, Scandinavia. A highlight is the jubilant and celebratory “Coronation of Gustavus Adolphus”.
Composed for the Ante Bellum mod. Adds 16 music tracks to the game. Explores the tension and conflicts between the Christian and Islamic religions in the 1400’s, as well as internal strife and decadence. In vanilla EU4 the music is contextualised primarily around region and religion. The main theme is powerful and sets a dark tone for the world, whilst the epic “Legacy of Seljuk” adds a layer of menacing foreboding to the artillery of the Ottomans.
Piano-based peacetime music. Adds 10 music tracks to the game that are relaxed and calming in nature. Plenty of piano and lightweight strings, in comparison to my usual brass-heavy scores. This music is generally contextualised in-game to peacetime.
The ultimate collection of miscellaneous music tracks and main themes from across various EU4 mods. Currently adds 27 music tracks to the game and is continually updated whenever new music is released. Includes various music tracks from Anbennar, Third Odyssey and Ante Bellum, as well as main themes for mods such as Extended Timeline and Imperium Universalis, plus a couple of Christmas-themed music tracks! The music is all contextualised depending on the theme of the piece.
Notice how there’s more lines of trumpets compared to what we’ve previously seen? Every instrument can be played in many different ways, and each one I need manifests itself as a new line in the software. This can easily balloon larger pieces to over 100 lines of instruments - that’s a lot to keep track of and balance all at once!
Once I’ve worked through the entire piece, and gotten lost countless times in all the tools that Logic Pro has to offer, it’s time to do the final mixing. This is generally a bunch of final adjustments applied globally to the entirety of the music piece, to prepare it for release and general listening. Volumes are equalised, reverb is added, and anything outlying is squashed by the compressor.
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Naturally, such a large scale multiplayer event requires some tweaks and balance changes. You can see some of these below. Keep in mind these are subject to change between now and the Lan itself, as game masters continue to craft a quality exprience.
In 612 BC, the world is incredibly divided, with regions that saw previous stability falling into chaos as civil wars, upstart nations, and new religions come to dominate them. The Assyrian Empire is facing a losing war against the upstart Babylon, having lost Nineveh the day the mod begins. In Anatolia, Scythians and native Anatolians are vying for dominance as the Median empire looks on, and in the east, China is in the middle of the Spring and Autumn period - the old Zhou dynasty has mostly collapsed, but various Hegemons vie for power, claiming to protect what's left of the Zhou. However, if the region becomes consolidated enough, the Warring States period will begin, ushering in a new era of chaos...
IU features a long list of dates to play from, although some do not have as much content as we’d like. Generally, the earlier the startdate, the more content and balance there will be. I will explain notable startdates and the specific content they are meant to display further within the spoiler. If you want a start without waiting for many buildings or other milestones to unlock via tech - you should probably start in 474 or 490!
IU features a custom pop system, with 3 classes of population: Upper Class, Commoners, and Tribal/Rural pops. Upper Class grants more wealth and goods, Commoners provide decent wealth and goods but also manpower, and Tribal/rurals grant more manpower but less wealth.
In addition to changing Development, IU naturally also changes the buildings from vanilla, featuring many more buildings, in many more categories. These buildings range from regular tax-collecting buildings, to bathhouses, and to apothecaries, and everything inbetween. Alongside these, we also feature unique buildings, granting powerful bonuses to those rich enough to build them.
We have many more Institutions to fit with our extended playtime as well, progressing from Writing, Coinage, and Siegecraft, all the way to Blast Furnaces, Advanced Irrigation, and Engineering. These Institutions have a wide range of effects, and their spread is more, well, spread out, in areas well developed enough to receive them. There’s no silk road yet to transport knowledge, so you’ll have to invent it in your own area over time.
IU contains 8 ages throughout its timeline, and these ages contain MANY more abilities than vanilla, to account for the various polities and empires that may exist at any given age. The first few ages last about 80-90 years, but they begin lasting longer as the ages pass. The expanded GUI here is thanks to the creator of the Ages Reformed mod, MDoulos. (You can check out his spotlight on Ages Reformed here
The entire world has been reshaped religiously, with there not being any huge blobs of “Animist” or some other generic Pagan religion. Each region has at least one, or multiple, religions to represent local customs and beliefs, many of which having some mechanic. These mechanics are typically cults, or other deity worship.
Government types have seen some reformatting, with Theocracies being reused to represent Oligarchies instead. Playing as tribals will typically take a lot longer to reform out of tribalism than in vanilla, but tribals also receive strong bonuses if they find themselves in a war with a more organized nation. Republics, and Monarchies are generally as in vanilla, but all gov types have seen reforms fully overhauled.
Government reforms have been fully changed from vanilla, with there being 14 Republic tiers, 14 Oligarchic tiers, 15 Monarchy tiers, and 11 Tribal tiers. Some tier reforms are shared between government types, but there are always specific tiers that add government specific bonuses. Republics and Oligarchies, of course, can adjust their term limits, along with all being able to choose from various bonuses. Tribals, get the choice to reform into the 3 other gov types, or stay tribal if they wish.
One of these more lucrative mechanics, is that when you Annex a nation, either through war, or through diplomacy, you attain their Treasury. This means annexing a few OPM’s can net you enough cash to fund a few Manufacturies in your homeland. This however, has a downside. Done excessively, or without checking, your Inflation can begin to skyrocket if not checked.
As with any mod or game representing this era of history, slavery, in many forms, was abundant. From state-owned slaves, to pseudo-serfdom, there were many variants of this. To try and represent the vast possibilities and gradients, we have a slaves estate, which holds the laws governing the rest of the mechanics for slavery. Beware though, having too many, will lead to intense unrest and other negatives.
The population of Slaves will increase or decrease over time depending on the laws set in the Estate, and the amount Liberated will join your regular Population in your provinces over time. Slaves can either exist ambiguously and add to your global Slave Production, contributing to global Goods Produced %, or be placed in Provinces with an appropriate Manufactury, or a Production building, directly increasing goods there.
Admin stress is the main driver behind this balancing, and it works through a modifier that begins applying at 400 development, and increases every ~400 development after, for 12 levels. The modifier lowers income modifiers, while increasing corruption, which the player is meant to pay off with cash, further limiting their treasury.
There’s a lot of changes too small to be given their own section, but too impactful to go un-noted. So, I’ll list some of those here:
Socii have also seen another full overhaul, with the major annoyances with the old system flattened over. Dissatisfaction now works as a custom gov mechanic, allowing the player to see at a glance where they’re at. This also means that the modifier increases linearly instead of in steps, stopping sudden changes in liberty desire.
Anatolia now begins even more chaotic than previously, with central Anatolia now more divided. Upon Scytheni’s invasion of Cimirria, the Lydians will get an event to invade and subjugate Phrygia, alongside a powerful modifier for expansion, turning it into a buffer state between the two powers. At the conclusion of the Assyrian collapse, should Babylon win, Cilicia gains independence.
There have been an immense amount of small QOL changes, or balancing changes, to China. I cannot cover all of these, but I can note the biggest ones. Such as, the eastern coastline, and all rivers in China, have been adjusted to be more accurate to sources depicting the era. Including redirecting and thinning the navigable rivers, more rivers have been added all across China, no longer having areas barren of rivers where there should be.
IU’s pop system is something the mod has kept for a very long time - and while this rework would not do away with having a pop system, it would see IU’s completely supplanted by something much better for performance, and that would allow us to represent many more things, with much better accuracy. With help and permission from the Atlas Novum
Greetings, Emperors, Consuls, and Caliphs!
This was the cornerstone of the mod that I built off for the rest of its development. To contribute to governing capacity challenges, I reduced the capacity that you get from technology and increased the governing capacity for provinces with separatism and unaccepted cultures. I then asked myself,
The problem with this new feature is that you would end up with scenarios like this, where rebels would spiral into enormous hordes of revolting separatists.
A simple fix for this would be to only recruit new rebel units in provinces greater than 12 dev.
In addition to coastal defensiveness tweaks, buffs have been applied to mountain and highland defensiveness, the former of which also has a buff to fort maintenance. This was done to make well-known mountain barriers more important in warfare, such as the Pyrenees, Carpathians, and the Caucasian mountains.
A screenshot from roughly 1625 illustrating the institution disparity
What this ends up doing is making large centers of development more powerful, and making it so specialization of development is more meaningful.
This is a collapse spurred on by the AI. The player might be able to avoid this through creative use of accepted cultures, exploit/concentrating development, or culture conversion.
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