Harsher Wars


In EU5, wars feel inconsequential, and the AI seems to be constantly at war, continuously expanding without real challenge. Additionally, levies behave like mindless zombies, which you can endlessly send into battle and if they die just raise them again no problem. Wars should be more impactful, causing significant consequences and damage to the countries involved.

• Makes war exhaustion much more lethal by adding more debuffs.
• Makes levies less the more war exhaustion there is up to 100% less levies at max war exhaustion.
• Makes the reduce war exhaustion cabient action only possible during peace times.
• Blockading a province is strong now and grants extra warscore.
• Land and Naval battles give more war exhaustion.
• Winter is now harsher
• Occupied territory now gives low control and many debuffs
• Raisng levies now gives 50% debuff instead of 20% to RGOs
• Increased debuffs for provinces under siege
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