So i loaded this game back up after a long time away from it, due to having a broken hand and it only requiring one hand to play.
dafuq is with some of the changes?
Japan is entirely broken. Suicidal wars 'for the emperor' ruined my first playthrough.
Now playing as England i find theres strange maneuvering etc involved where forts appear to block movement and retake provinces around it. But most of all - Nations can come barrelling through my territories to get at other nations despite not having military access to my lands?
i war france with castille, portugal, naples and aragon on my side, but im not the primary guy, and we all know how lame ai are in deciding the terms so i made a separate peace that netted me 3 provinces and a load of dough off the frenchies. For some reason all the provinces the friendlies were getting were showing as conquered by me, so it reset them all sadly but no matter - just give castille access to my lands so they can go thru and hit the french with impunity. Oh wait.. not so.. france send 30ks worth of men through my land and start wrecking castille n co who, because they are several separate nations, are utterly useless at coordinating their troops.
Who the hell thought that was a good idea? absolutely ridiculous that because i grant access to my own friends and allies, that my NUMBER 1 ENEMY AND RIVAL can march through my lands willy nilly. Thats not historical. thats complete bs.
Game seems like a convoluted mess of perplexing features since i first purchased it at release. Pretty annoying - so annoying in fact that i came here to about it with one hand.