Expansion - Europa Universalis IV: Art Of War

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Europa Universalis IV: Art of War Paradox Development Studios ups the stakes with the latest and third expansion from Europa Universalis IV – The Art of War. Centered on the 30 Years War and bubbling political instability between church and state, this expansion features improved gameplay mechanics that’s puts warfare at the forefront of your quest for domination and triumph.

War. War never changes. That is, unless you pick up The Art of War expansion to Europa Universalis IV, in which case war has just changed a great deal. Paradox once again has taken an excellent product and made it even better, with an expansion that adds a great deal of color to the events of the game (particularly the 30 Years War), dramatically alters and improves the game map, and upgrades the production model to reduce micromanagement and leave you to what brought you here: conquest and expanding your empire.

One of the more time consuming elements of Europa Universalis is constructing an army. The Art of War adds a feature allowing you to design an army prototype, built with your ideal specifications in mind. The game will then allow you to build that prototype. You’ll choose the destination province, and all the necessary units will be built at a number of provinces you specify automatically- previously, you had to build them in each province individually. Then, as they are completed, they will all march to the destination province to await your orders. It’s a fantastic feature that dramatically speeds up army construction- the lengthy pauses I used to make to put together my ideal force have been all but eliminated. It’s an excellent concession to playability.

Expansion - Europa Universalis IV: Art Of War

There are many other changes to the game’s warfare model. These include the ability of province garrisons to sortie against besiege forces, and give orders to subject nations on how you want them to behave in war. You can even suggest to allied nations which provinces to besiege. These are solid changes, which alters some of the randomness you seemed to get from the behavior of allied nations in war. There’s less guess work when you know how those countries you’re going to war with as allies are going to behave when the conflict begins.

Paradox themselves seem to think trying DLC out before you buy it is worth exploring, however, as they've today announced that owners of Europa Universalis IV get to try out one piece of DLC for free for an entire week, starting right now. The DLC they've chosen is The Art of War, EU4' s fourth expansion that released in 2014.
OS: XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8: CPU: Intel® Pentium® IV 2.4 GHz or AMD 3500+ メモリ: 2 GB RAM: グラフィック: NVIDIA® GeForce 8800 or ATI Radeon® X1900, 1024mb video memory recommended.
Master the Art of warfare! Paradox Development Studios ups the stakes with the latest and third expansion from Europa Universalis IV – The Art of War. Centered on the 30 Years War.

There have been some really solid changes to the naval model. You can now sell out-of-date ships and place fleets into a mothball state when desired. These two changes will save you a lot of money, plus add a solid level of realism to the game. After a long war for Sweden’s well deserved domination of the Baltic Sea, it was nice to be able to kick my fleet into mothball and recover my treasury quickly. I also had the option (though I declined at the time) to upgrade my ships in the fleet all simultaneously. This is the biggest success of the Art of War: streamlining gameplay.

As I mentioned, I played as Sweden. This expansion adds a ton of events to the 30 Years’ War, and with Paradox’s Swedish roots, and the fact that the country was a key player in the conflict, I dove into that conflict with gusto. I was well entertained by defenestrations, religious disagreement, and the role I seized as Defender of the Protestant Faith. Mostly, I warred to maintain a foothold on the southern shore of the Baltic against Polish aggression. The swirling and long conflict that was the Thirty Years’ War now finally has the game needed to fully represent its scope and devastation, as Paradox has finally added the necessary extras to flesh out the conflict into a completely realized form. The addition of the Catholic and Protestant leagues is a key factor in making the conflict expand in the way that it did- though I didn’t really enjoy suddenly finding enemies on all sides.

As has become typical of Paradox expansions, there was a lot of free content released right alongside the expansion. Here, they’ve tossed on some 900 changes to the map, with sweeping changes to Asia, Africa and the Americas. There were so many changes that I didn’t use the fantastic randomized Western Hemisphere option from Conquest of Paradise just to get in the new experience. If there was anything about the old map that bugged you, it’s probably been fixed here. The patch also tossed in significant changes to the way rebellions work, tying them more to movements than to single provinces. And, if you have the expansion, you can even declare war on behalf of another country’s rebels.

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Once again, Paradox has taken a game that was fantastic before, and launched an add-on that took the experience to another level. And if you haven’t yet dived into Europa Universalis IV, the amount of streamlining the experience has undergone will help tighten up your new experience immensely. Piloting a nation through years of peace and war only get better with The Art of War.

The Art of War was reviewed using code provided by the developer.

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Across the globe, except South America, Europe and United Kingdom.

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About the game

Paradox Development Studios ups the stakes with the latest and third expansion from Europa Universalis IV – The Art of War. Centered on the 30 Years War and bubbling political instability between church and state, this expansion features improved gameplay mechanics that’s puts warfare at the forefront of your quest for domination and triumph.

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Improved naval combat and full army control means the course of victory rests solely on your shoulders. Will you choose to triumph alone or rely on the combat strengths of your allies? Your decision will decide if your empire lasts through the ages.

Highlights

30 years War: Unique mechanics and events for the religious conflict that ravaged Europe.
Napoleonic Era: Fight for or against the revolution and create entirely new custom client countries on the map from your conquests.
Fighting on land or at sea: You can now sortie from sieges, transfer occupation to allies and give objectives to your subjects and allies. Entire Fleets can now be upgraded with one click, you can now mothball fleets to avoid paying maintenance, and your fleets can be set to automatically transport armies.
Marches: Turn your vessels into bulwarks against your enemies, getting less tax but strengthening their defenses.
Improved Diplomacy: Sell Surplus Ships, Fight for your subjects CB, Declare War in Support of Rebel factions in other countries and new peace options.
Gameplay Enhancements: Build entire armies in one click and abandon cores that you no longer wish to support.
Free Features for the accompanying patch: Completely new rebel mechanic, local autonomy on province level, new cardinal system for Catholics, new reformation mechanics and a new look map.

System Requirements

OS:Windows 8/7/Vista/XP
Storage:2 GB
Processor:Intel Pentium IV 2.4 GHz / AMD 3500+
Memory:2 GB
Graphics:512 MB, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 / ATI Radeon X1900
DirectX:9.0c

Release date:2014-10-30
Developer: Paradox Development Studio
Publisher: Paradox Interactive

Game Mode

Multiplayer
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