Today, Europa Universalis IV: Mandate of Heaven expansion launched onto PC, Mac, and Linux for $19.99 USD. And to celebrate the launch of said expansion, developer and publisher Paradox Interactive released a — you guessed it — launch trailer.

The latest addition to Europa Universalis 4, called the Cossacks, was presented by the creators of the largest and most knowledgeable strategy – Paradox Development Studios. Very soon this extension will be available, because its release is scheduled for the last months of 2015. Europa Universalis IV looks east with Mandate Of Heaven. Adam Smith. 4 years ago. 22 Space is getting grander and more interesting thanks to the Utopia dlc for Stellaris, and Crusader Kings II is receiving a rabble of Monks and Mystics next week, but Europa Universalis IV official site hasn't been left out. A tenth expansion is coming. Mandate of Heaven is the newest expansion for Europa Universalis IV, the best-selling historical grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studio. In Europa Universalis IV, you control the fate.

Here’s an overview of the expansion via Paradox Interactive:

While Europe slowly pulls itself from a period of darkness, the East continues to shine brightly. The Ming throne is set on a foundation of thousands of years of civilization while Japanese warlords do battle in honorable array, holding tight to their bushido code. The gods have blessed Asia with wealth and culture. Are you worthy of the Mandate of Heaven?

In Mandate of Heaven you control the fate of any of the hundreds of countries around the world through the maelstrom of the early modern era, from the Age of Discovery to the rise of Napoleon. This expansion further enhances this epic experience by adding greater depth to playing the major powers of East Asia and adding a new “Ages” system to add more short-term goals.

Main Features:

• Historical Ages and Golden Eras: Meet objectives in four historical ages from the Age of Discovery to the Age of Revolutions, earning new bonuses and powers for your country. Declare a Golden Era to further increase your chance of success.

• Chinese Empire: New mechanics for Ming China, including Imperial Decrees and Imperial Reforms to bolster the Dragon Throne

• Tributaries:Force your neighbors to pay tribute to your Chinese Empire, paying you in gold, manpower or monarch points

• New Japanese Rules: Daimyos now owe loyalty to the Shogun – and the Shogun is whomever controls the imperial capital of Kyoto. Force your lesser rivals to commit seppuku to preserve their honor

• Manchu Banners: Rally the Manchu warlords around your throne and call up the traditional banners to reinforce your army

• Diplomatic Macrobuilder: Common diplomatic actions are now easily available from the macrobuilder interface

As with all Europa Universalis IV expansions, Mandate of Heaven launches alongside a major free update to Europa Universalis IV that adds new features, and improves the game in a variety of ways. You can check out the patch notes for said update here. Or you could skip the patch notes and just jump straight to the new trailer below:

For the triggered modifier, see ‘The Mandate of Heaven’.

Europa Universalis Iv Free Demo

Mandate of Heaven is the 10th expansion for Europa Universalis IV. It was announced on 2017-03-02^[1]. The expansion was accompanied by the free patch 1.20 on 2017-04-06.

Expansion features

Mandate of Heaven brings a host of new features to EU4, including:

• Historical Ages and Golden Eras: Meet objectives in four historical ages from the Age of Discovery to the Age of Revolutions, earning new bonuses and powers for your country. Declare a Golden Era to further increase your chance of success.
• Chinese Empire: New mechanics for Ming China, including Imperial Decrees and Imperial Reforms to bolster the Dragon Throne.
• Tributaries: Force your neighbors to pay tribute to your Chinese Empire, paying you in gold, manpower or monarch points.
• New Japanese Rules: Daimyos now owe loyalty to the Shogun – and the Shogun is whoever controls the imperial capital of Kyoto. Compel the loyalty of your daimyos with new interactions that require them to submit to your authority, contribute to your power or even commit seppuku.
• Manchu Banners: Rally the Manchu warlords around your throne and call up the traditional banners to reinforce your army.
• Diplomatic Macrobuilder: Common diplomatic actions are now easily available from the macrobuilder interface.
• New religious mechanics: Confucian nations take a penalty to Harmony for converting individual provinces; however, they also have the option to Harmonize with other religions, a lengthy process that — when complete — unifies heretical and heathen beliefs with the true faith.
• Prosperity: A state with prosperity gives −10% to development cost, −0.05 monthly autonomy change, and +25% to goods produced.

Free features

The 1.20 patch includes changes to:

• Devastation: Provinces now have devastation counter that goes from 0 to 100%. Scorched Earth & looting now increases this value instead of having separate modifiers. Unrest slowly increases it in a province as well.
• Added Statistics button that opens End game/Statistics view to in-game menu.
• The game now has four different ages: Age of Discovery, Age of Reformation, Age of Absolutism and Age of Revolutions
• Removed Absolute Monarchy from the game, and replaced with a scaling mechanic called Absolutism which is valid from Age of Absolutism.
• Moved religious locks from before the year 1650 to be valid from script in Age of Discovery & Age of Reformation only.
• Added better and worse comparisons to other players in statistics page.
• [Art of War] Automatic Fleet Transport now docks to pick up and drop off your armies when possible.
• Replaced old Celestial Empire Factions with new ones that better fit history and their respective roles.
• You can now decide to declare bankruptcy on your own if you have loans.
• Units now use retreat animations during shattered retreat.
• Strengthen Government now increases absolutism by +2.

Dev diaries

Main article: Developer diaries

All developer diaries about the Mandate of Heaven expansion, patch 1.20 (aka Ming) and patch 1.21 (aka Hungary).

Patch 1.21 (Hungary)

Patch 1.20 (Ming)

References

1. ↑Forum, Earn the Dragon Throne in Europa Universalis IV: Mandate of Heaven, 2017-03-02

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