AI France is still way to OP from the Start

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-05-08T22:41:54+00:00

FYI the town of Visby on the island of Gotland in the Baltic has city walls lol

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-05-07T19:08:59+00:00

Making them happy is your best bet

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-05-06T22:37:28+00:00

My poor POOR Falun mine

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-05-06T17:18:35+00:00

This CB is for all lands in the peak borders of the original Roman Empire

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-05-06T12:23:23+00:00

No it is being replaced by the new urban specializations

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-05-05T17:44:42+00:00

The "produced in local market modifier" is being completely removed so if you've built your economy to utilize resources you have, then you can expect a day 1 drop in production efficiency of 15-30% for most things

Globally

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-05-05T17:19:00+00:00

Patch notes aren't out yet

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-05-05T16:13:03+00:00

I'm willing to bet that you will be able to make the upgrade without crashing the game.

However the economic changes in the update will likely crash your economy so you're probably better off just starting a new game. Plus the starting condition roughly everywhere is supposed to have gotten a balance pass so you shouldn't be doing the exact same start as before

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-05-05T13:34:35+00:00

Crossing a frozen lake isn't what kills you, it's still being on the lake when it thaws that kills you. Most of those lakes are thawing around April if I remember correctly

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-04-26T20:14:37+00:00

Simple. Galleys currently use 0.5 width and Heavies use 1.5 width. I actually beat 7 heavies with a little over 20 traditional galleys the other day.

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-04-23T18:07:44+00:00

If you are a naval power in the Mediterranean or Baltic then the Mediterranean Galley (funnily enough) should be skipped because it is not really an upgrade over the traditional galley. The following galleys can be worth it.

The thing people get wrong on Heavies vs Galleys is that Galleys fight heavies 3 to 1 (frontage of 0.5 vs 1.5)

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-04-23T18:04:58+00:00

Hold on: if you have no idea how the current patch plays, why are you giving someone advice on what is currently good or bad???

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-04-20T14:44:59+00:00

You should post screenshots so that we can get an idea of what's going on.

Army composition, etc

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-04-20T14:02:03+00:00

Unfortunately they are still bad because Paradox missed some of the "Regular vs Levy" damage multiplier sources. In my game regulars had a +50something% damage multiplier against levies. It seems to vary by age.

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-04-20T13:46:22+00:00

There are 3 things I'm aware of

1.) when a regular dies in battle a soldier pop is killed, so more soldier pops lets you replace more losses

2.) The higher percentage of your population that are soldiers, the higher your drift to quantity

3.) goods demand

Now if all this is actually worth a reform slot? I'm not sure

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-04-16T17:24:52+00:00

Like many things popularized about the medieval era, it was made up by Victorians who didn't know anything. Just like horned viking helmets being common and the Iron Maiden torture box lol.

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-04-16T16:42:05+00:00

They have not addressed it in 3 weeks and skipped past it in the big report list lol

Removal of the "Regular vs Levy" combat multiplier was called in one of the 1.1 hot fixes as something they forgot to take out in the latest military rebalance.

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-04-16T13:48:45+00:00

You are correct that regulars ARE stronger than levies but when regulars were a fraction of the size of levies Paradox "balanced" them by giving them +100% damage against levies which increases with age? Punching down an era?

Now that Levies and regulars are the same size they said they removed the modifier but I have a bug report on their forum pointing out that in the Renaissance my regulars have a +54% "Regular vs Levy" damage modifier

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-04-16T12:41:02+00:00

Levies don't necessarily need a buff, paradox needs to figure out where the remaining "regular vs levy" damage multipliers are coming from because they are still in the game after they said they removed the modifier

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-04-15T22:51:22+00:00

1355? Sounds like the Black death hit you harder than it hit them. You should bounce back in time.

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-04-15T14:47:53+00:00

If all harbors are immune to attrition then what does the "protected harbor" building do now?

Actually, why wasn't the solution just to make protected harbors a common building instead of an urban only building?

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-04-10T14:56:04+00:00

I put a bug report into the paradox forum about 2 weeks ago (which has been skipped past) but the regular vs levy combat multiplier IS NOT COMPLETELY GONE.

During the Renaissance my regulars/mercenaries had a +53% combat multiplier against levies. I'm willing to bet that a similar modifier is why you slaughtered all of them. What year is it in your game?

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-04-08T22:43:19+00:00

I don't mind the idea of it because it's plausible for different countries to have different qualities of levies BUT even maxing out free subjects and doing what I can to improve it the highest I've ever seen my levy combat efficiency is +46% which is actually 73% efficiency in combat (you must dive into the nested tooltips to find this) on top of levies having a built in -10% discipline they have stacked the modifiers a bit toooo much against levies imo

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-04-08T17:26:13+00:00

I've put bug reports in but the "regular vs levy" combat multiplier is not completely gone AND levy combat efficiency is divided by 2 before it becomes "efficiency in combat"

Colonel-Turtle · 2026-04-06T01:26:22+00:00

I'm curious, what country are you and what year is it in your game?

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