Europa Universalis IV is a grand strategy video game in the Europa Universalis series, developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. The game was released on 13 August 2013. It is a strategy game where players can control a nation from the Late Middle Ages through the Early modern period (1444 to 1821 AD), conducting trade, administration, diplomacy, colonization and warfare.

Take a look below for our list of 10 of the best mods for Europa Universalis IV that you can download right now.

Dec 11, 2018 If so, then December 11th is going to be your lucky day because Paradox Interactive has released their latest DLC for Europa Universalis IV: Golden Century. Feedback on the announced content of GC has been - contentious, but previously locked content from past expansions has now been made free to compensate.

1. Extended Timeline

Extended Timeline extends the playable timeline from the year 2 AD to 9999, as well as multiple bookmarks, among which the Roman-Parthian War at 58AD and the Present Day (the date of the release of the latest version of the mod).

ET adds over 500 countries with historical territories and all known rulers at any given date, over 100 new provinces removing all wastelands, dozens of new religions with most of the having their own unique events and decisions, additional cultures, 201 additional technologies, about 100 additional decisions, about 100 additional events such as the fall of Rome Rome, the rise of Islam, the Great Schism, and much more.

2. Catus Cheats

A mod for altering the game, creating impossible scenarios through various decisions and events. Helps to save time by applying effects to all provinces. Fun for making weird situations and watching it all go down in observer mode.

1. About Europa Universalis IV: Rights of Man. Paradox Interactive presents 'Rights of Man', an expansion to Europa Universalis IV that adds greater depth and detail to a host of game systems. New decisions, greater customization and added personality are all coming to the best-selling game about exploration, trade and conquest.
2. Buy Europa Universalis IV Extreme Edition. Includes additional DLC: - Horsemen of the Crescent Unit Pack - Star and Crescent DLC - Conquest of Constantinople Music pack - American Dream - The 100 Years War Unit Pack - The Purple Phoenix Expansion.
3. What is the best DLC for EU4?:: Europa Universalis IV Yleiset keskustelut. I have 'Conquest of Constinapole music pack' 'Horseman of the Crescent unit Pack' 'Song of Yuletide' 'Star and Crosent' That all dlc i have get when i purchased EU4. The game was on Steam Sale, I always want EU4 but i was little afraid the complexity of game and the price:-) Now when i play i loved the game, i considering.
4. Aug 10, 2012 I'm extremely happy that I did my research and didn't go ahead and buy that 'Europa Universalis IV Collection' on Steam. It looked like it was the perfect starting bundle but turned out to have a lot of practically aesthetic (in other words: useless) alterations to the game. Now the only thing I have to do is learn to play the game.

3. Nation Designer Extender: Unlimited

Nation Designer Extender: Unlimited unlocks the restrictions placed on the Nation Designer and gives the player freedom to finally create that custom nation of his dreams. Input a bit of our own fantasy into the timeline of this world. Rewriting history becomes a lot more immersive.

4. Anbennar: A Fantasy Total Conversion

Anbennar is a fantasy setting based on the continent of Cannor and initially created as the foundation of a Europa Universalis IV total conversion mod. Anbennar itself derives from the elven word for “communion” and is now the name of the eponymous Empire of Anbennar, one of the world’s main countries that seek to uphold those ideals.

5. Imperium Universalis

Imperium Universalis (559BC – 300AD) is a total conversion mod for Europa Universalis IV. It is set in the antiquity and starts with the reign of Cyrus II. the great in 559 BC and is playable until the year 300 AD. The mod includes many new gameplay features like food, slaves and historical features such as the rise of Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and Christianity and the rise and fall of different empires.

The map is completely new and contains Europe, North Africa and Mainland Asia. Because Europa Universalis can’t use BCE dates Years have been changed to AUC: Ab Urbe Condita, years from the foundation of Rome. The game thus starts on 195 AUC and ends on 1054 AUC.

6. SuperStates

Play as one of the 50 American States, 10 Canadian Provinces and 31 Mexican States and More! With new tech groups (States tech) and new governments (American and Mexican governorships, Canadian premierships), new units and some 200 provinces using modern borders!

7. Lord of the Universalis

Lord of Universalis is a complete overhaul mod for EU4 that brings the world of Tolkien into the game. The mod offers more than just the regular timeline.

8. Free Nation Designer

The nation designer is a tool that was introduced in the El Dorado DLC, in February 2015. It allows the player to create custom nations.

9. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum translates to “Theatre of the World” and is considered to be the first true modern atlas. It was created in 1570 by flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius. This mod tries to bring its look and feel to Europa Universalis IV.

10. Thick Borders And Recolored Water

Border are now much more thicker. Borders are now visible from a greater distance.Sharp black borders that change width according to zoom level. Beautiful terrain, new textures of sand, rock, grass with changes normal-maps. Recolored water with semi-reflection (When zoomed in, reflection of clouds appear, when zoomed out, reflection is minimal).

Avast, me hearties! Are you longing for the days of Renaissance Spain and the infamy of sailing the high seas under the black flag of the golden age of piracy? If so, then December 11th is going to be your lucky day because Paradox Interactive has released their latest DLC for Europa Universalis IV: Golden Century.

Feedback on the announced content of GC has been -- contentious, but previously locked content from past expansions has now been made free to compensate.

Golden Century is an immersion pack intended to focus almost entirely on the golden century of Spain, and as a result of spilling outwards into somewhat related mechanics, also has pirate republics. It's not intended to be a full expansion, just as Rule Britannia and Third Rome were not full expansions.

That out of the way, what is in GC that you might be interested in?

Show Me the Gold

As ever, it's important to seperate what you get from the premium expansion from what will be included, for free, in the accompanying patch that comes with every expansion release.

Mechanic: Minority Expulsion

A lot of people have been waiting for this particular ability, and the announcement has generally been received pretty well. Like all good mechanics, expelling the minorities from your nation to fuel your colonial expansion certainly makes unifying the culture of the homeland easier but it sets up a potential new nation full of people who have reason not to believe as you do and that can definitely come back to bite you. Ask the Puritans!

Mechanic: Establish Orders

Both the Iberian Catholics and Andalusian Sufi have the ability to appoint a holy order to administrate an entire state, giving it some province bonuses. For example, appointing the Jesuits to administer an Iberian state costs 50 administrative power and gives every province in that state +1 administrative development, +1.5% missionary strength in that state, and a 10% reduction in construction cost. Both the Catholic and Muslim versions are effectively identical.

Mechanic: Flagships

Have a nice, large fleet and looking for a big, hefty ship to represent the centralized power of your force? You want a flagship. To have one you're going to need an already established fleet of 3000 sailors and they're not cheap. You get to customize your flagship with up to 3 slots worth of modifications, each of which will make it more expensive to keep the thing sailing.

The best example may be Hull Sheathing, which gives a whopping 50% increase to the durability of the flagship at the same cost of 0.5 maintenance of the others. There are nation specific flagship modifications available for Portugal, Spain/Castile, and the Netherlands/Holland (and only them) which has led to some complaints about significant naval countries being left out, but I suspect you'll see the number of nation-specific modifications increase in the future.

Mechanic: Naval Barrage

You'll recognize this as effectively porting the Artillery Barrage from the Mandate of Heaven expansion for ships. While being able to spend 50 military influence to help reduce fort walls faster from any cannon-bearing ship is nothing to sneeze at, you may seriously consider whether those 50 military influence are better spent elsewhere.

Missions: New Mission Trees

Like the other immersion packs, GC brings new missions and objectives to the Iberian Peninsula and the Moors of Northwest Africa, which will bring a lot more possibilities for you if playing with Castile/Spain, Portugal, Aragon, Morocco, Granada, or Tunis.

Cosmetic: New Iberian Army, Iberian Navy, and Berber Ship Models

Part of all the immersion packs is the greater visual distinction between the nations of the region the pack is focusing on. The assumption is that you are going to spend a lot of time really looking at that particular set of nations so it should be easier to tell their land and ship models apart. Purely cosmetic, so make of it what you will.

Cosmetic: New Music

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Paradox is promising 10 to 12 minutes of original music 'inspired by the discovery of the New World.' Will you even notice 12 minutes more?

Mechanic: Pirate Republics

You could make the entirely reasonable argument that pirate republics are the best reason, and maybe the only reason, to buy Golden Century. Are they really historical? Well, certainly some existed ... very briefly. In the East, organizations of pirates had the advantage of lots of islands and less powerful, decentralized governments to hunt them down. In the West, once England and Spain decided that paying people to sink and steal the ships of each other was largely ineffective, piracy lost a lot of its gloss as both a major seafaring powers decided that pirates needed to go.

In GC, pirate republics can only arise naturally in a handful of locations, three of which are located roughly in the Caribbean. If your nation is located on an island or in the Mahgreb, you can take a decision to become a pirate Republic. It's costly and you need to be really focused on naval power and, in particular, privateering (because sucking up at least 10 trade power with privateers is hard work), but you can do it. As a result you will get a custom set of factions and governmental reforms (if you have the Dharma expansion for reforms, that is).

Is the Booty Worth It?

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The smaller expansions are always difficult to make a definitive judgment one, but here’s some general advice for you:

If you enjoy playing in the Iberian Peninsula and you can overlook a few historical irregularities, then it would be very hard to pass up on Golden Century.

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If you're obsessed by pirates and can't fight off the desire to pretend to be Jack Sparrow, then this is going to be your best bet within EU4.

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If you're literally anyone else: While it's only $10 USD, it's not really vital to your experience and doesn't actually bring that much to the table. You might just want to wait until the next actual expansion and pick this one up on sale.

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