Loyal estates would provide plenty of powerful boons such as collateral for loans and local militias to the crown.

And absolutism would make estates more pliant and easier to core in the late game eras. Autonomy would become a struggle for control between crown and estates. The coring process would be completely reworked to emphasise the challenges of integrating the estates from newly conquered territories into your realm. So our first suggestion is that the relationship between monarchy and estates should become the central feature of EU5, and the one through which all others should interact. Speaking of speculation: What is Warhammer 3 going to be like? Even as late as the 18th century, these localised bodies intersected with the life of the citizens in a much more intimate manner than the monarchy or the state.

Historically, the tumultuous relationship between the crown and the estates was often the focus of internal conflict throughout much of the period. Here are five main things that we would like to see in Europa Universalis 5, whenever Paradox get around to announcing it.

We’ve put together several suggestions that could be incorporated into a sequel. With Crusader Kings 3 taking Steam by storm (you can read our CK3 review or learn some tricks in our CK3 tips guide), now is a good time to start thinking about Europa Universalis 5. But EU4 is seven years old now, and is showing signs of age.

There are few strategy games in which every single decision has so much impact on the state of the world - a game of such bewildering complexity that it inspires countless inner historians - with so many rules and mechanics that the learning curve stretches into the hundreds of hours. On the surface, Europa Universalis IV may look like nothing more than a map and a cartographer’s dream, but it has nevertheless exerted a powerful hold on our imaginations and further established grand strategy games as a sub-genre with mainstream appeal.

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