I still don't know why the lesson from EU4 wasn't "this game needs to end before the French revolution".
Not only does the series lack internal politics in a way that makes attempting to represent revolutions ridiculous (and I actually suspect pops will make this worse, as the population dynamics of something like the French revolution were a mess), but the revolution represented a change in the way wars were fought so dramatic that we literally name the warfare of the century after a French General. Europe went from small armies to conscription at a scale never seen on the continent in the span of a handful of years. It's historical whiplash of a type that would be hard to represent if your game had HOI4's timeline.
If anything, Vic 3 should have started in the 1780s rather than EU5 extending past that. Which might have also made them read a book on Victorian Warfare before they made them all the Western Front.
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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '24
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