Hardcore Universalis

If you are tired after the 1600s, do not want to min-max everything, playing a tall/colonial game or want a new challenge this is what you are looking for. Based on history, alongside/inspired by great mods, dive along on whole another level of this wonderful game! Now every battle, alliance and careful planning will be a deal breaker. Prepare to lose wars, go bankrupt and – maybe – get some gray hair as well.

⚔️ Warfare, through a special blend of these mods:

• Responsible Warfare
• Reborn Military Updated
• Combat Width Terrain Restored
• Decisive Battles (Higher Warscore From Battles)
• Historical Land & Naval Sizes

What you’ll get:

• Realistic Feudal Army, with little base manpower you need to use a special decision to raise your army
• Nerfed Force Limit, alliances matter more than never!
• Nerfed Combat Width to match the limited Force limit!
• Expensive army mainteinance during war
• Terrain and Cavalry matters
• Battles can earn you 75% of War Score
• No unique ideas making the game way more unpredictable, ruler traits are a deal breaker now

🏰 Administration:

• Responsible Blobbing, with less force limit and gov. cap handicapped vassal game is back, as influence idea (and its policies) could be a game changer.
• With base admin efficiency -60% at the start, not only you but AI will be inclined to release vassals if overextenstion are high, also it will help with lackness of manpower!
• Revamped Byzantine Empire ressurgence using the good old Theme System as stairs to achieve greatness, thanks to Doge Shattered Europe for some themes names and flags!

⚜️ RP,you need to load the great Flavour and Events Expanded you will get new appeal for :

• Culture
• Dynastic
• Great Powers’ wars
• Heir education
• And many others unique experiences

⛪ Religion:

• 30 years’ war near the real life’s date
• More turmoil with realistic army’s size, making it harder to control it while trying to manage different playstyles
• Schalmaldick league, happening around 15-20 years after the Protestant’s emergence thanks to Europa Expanded files

📜 Colonization, thanks to both Slower Colonization mods (here, here and here):

• Portugal taking exploration as second idea and not allowed to take expansion until the fifth idea is available, to reflect its own "small" scale colonial "game"
• Castile/Spain also only taking exploration as second idea and not allowed to take expansion as third
• Rest of the world only allowed during 1600s

• With less manpower your moves need to be calculated
• Different ways to play the game without OP mission trees, wanna play the dynastic game as Austria? Try now currying favors and requesting to insert your dynasty on other’s throne
• Playing HRE is an unique experience trying to fight against the Reformation as the Schmalkaldic War could be as hard as the 30 years’ war if you sleep on it!
• Your ideas selection will be heavily thought, most likely tweaked mid game due to the new "branching" system
• No national ideas for Europe means more RNG and, why not, RP
• No more Burgundian Inheritance, as it happened after the initial scope of the starting date. That means Charles "The Bold" could easily have a son, as Marie wasn’t alive in 1444. If it was possible to reproduce with any other nation without scripting specific tags, would rather do that than only let BI happens!

• Interface Redrawn
  
• Flavour and Events Expanded
  
• Xorme AI
  
• European Advisors portrait
  

  
  
  

  This mod is Eurocentric by its nature. In the future, further expansions might happen, especially if one would want to help me out. As that my limit knowledge is influenced by Europe’s history. Expected to be worked in the future:

  • Mission trees focusing in the short and medium term. Like Austrian consolidation as THE HRE’s power house, Balkans’ countries and Poland/Lithuania defending from Ottomans, Burgundy unifying its lands, etc.
  • More Late Middle Ages/Early Modern RP aspects, gameplay heavily influenced by its characters rather than the Nation.
  • Medieval Warfare’s approach expanded, currently only Horizontal Recruitment implemented, Vertical and – maybe – Mercenaries soon.

  Discord link

  https://discord.gg/NfBZ7fJhZM