- Joined
- Dec 16, 2019
I'd hardly call 20 years of war in the middle a "99 year peace", but that's just a combination of my own autism and the American wanting to laugh at European mutual bloodlust.1850 - 1870 or so was an unusual period in that 1815 - 1914 era of peace in Europe, I read a good explanation of it once that IIRC was the initial struggle to adapt to the age of nationalism after the Revolutions of 1848 that Europe eventually "solved".
I think the problem with abstracting war is that Paradox isn't going to do it well and they won't make the other features interesting enough to devote your time to. I think it's a bit of a cop out to the fact that a war in the mid-1800s and a war in the early 1900s are two entirely different things with how the armies are organized. The Hearts of Iron system fits a lot more for the post-1900 era since Victoria 2 struggled at representing the sort of operations a WWI-era army did. And there's other very important shit from that era like naval races that are omitted entirely, like all building the biggest, baddest pack of battleships does is add to your prestige score to a lesser degree than going to Africa and shooting black people does.
On the other hand, it could make conquering Africa more realistic and dare I say fun than just dropping a stack of troops to overwhelm some poor negro nation's large but backwards army. But that's probably locked behind a $15 DLC that will break the game on release.
As to the rest, yes, Paradox is going to fuck all of this up. Never played Vicky 2, only Stellaris and HoI IV, so I don't exactly have high hopes, especially given the enduring clusterfuck that Leviathan turned out to be.