More Naval Levies
This mod increases naval levy output so that small and mid-sized nations can actually move their armies. In vanilla, the script value levy_ship_size is set to 0.005. This mod changes it to 0.02, a 4× increase in ships generated from eligible pops.
Recent balance changes upped the number of ships required to transport troops. In practice this:
- Leaves some nations (e.g. Cyprus) unable to transport even a single regiment with their starting naval levies
- Forces them to rely on shipbuilding that their early-game economy can’t realistically support
- Makes "naval levy" mechanics feel irrelevant outside of a few big powers
This mod aims to keep the higher transport requirements, but gives countries with meaningful coastal populations enough levy ships to actually play the game.
Same start, same setup, vanilla → modded naval levies:
- England: 40 → 178
- Sicily: 59 → 233
- Tunis: 33 → 177
- Byzantium: 39 → 144
- Cyprus: 6 → 27 (with Greek accepted or fully culture-converted)
This makes naval levies more relevant early on, but also later on your campaign. In my experience, once you had a decent navy, naval levies become irrelevant. However, considering their size, they can now have a wider function during war time.
I have not tested this, but I assume having larger naval levies might help the AI with naval invasions.
- Does not touch land levy sizes (infantry/cavalry)
- Does not change unit types, combat stats, or supply
- Does not add events, decisions, or new mechanics
- Does not affect levies disappearing after war. That was supposedly fixed on the last hotfix.
It is a single-value naval levy scaling tweak.
This mod edits Europa Universalis Vmodmnlmain_menucommonscript_valuesdefault_values.txt and will be incompatible with any other mod that modifies main_menucommonscript_valuesdefault_values.txt. Load order does not fix a conflict here: last writer wins.
Balance feedback welcome. If you see nations fielding ridiculous early-game levy fleets or still struggling to move basic armies, report it with the country and start date.
