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** Further expanded on in ''MEIOU and Taxes'' mod, which changes what exactly constitutes as institution. Countries influenced by Confucian teachings (so most of Far East) start with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy Meritocracy]] and it will take European nations about... 250 to 300 years to get it, assuming they are lucky and pro-active toward that goal. If they aren't, they might ''never'' get it. Meanwhile, Far East can quite easily get access to pretty much all Europe-starting institutions ''and'' snatch those unrelated with specific place of origin, meaning European nations can end up so severly behind they will have a technological disadvantage against pretty much everyone.
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** Even moreso, when you know that Europa Universalis was originally a board game, by Philippe Thibault, which plays exactly as you would expect from playing the game.
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game. That's right, not only did the "small Swedish studio" popularise grand strategy videogames, they did it by ''adapting an incredibly complex board game to videogame standards'', something that really became more than a trend only recently, with simple, popular games!
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** Even moreso, when you know that Europa Universalis was originally a board game, by Philippe Thibault, which plays exactly as you would expect from playing the game.
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That's right, not only did the "small Swedish studio" popularise grand strategy videogames, they did it by ''adapting an incredibly complex board game to videogame standards'', something that really became more than a trend only recently, with simple, popular games!
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** Surviving westernization as Byzantium by trapping the last stack of rebels in Anatolia and ceding the besieged provinces to the Turks. Have fun, Mehmet!
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** [[http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?709144-The-Three-Mountains-A-Ryukyu-AAR He attempted to repeat it in EU4,]] [[SaveGameLimits with Ironman mode on this time.]] [[spoiler: [[http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?709144-The-Three-Mountains-A-Ryukyu-AAR&s=2d313171ec5daa68d78167158f5caf1c&p=16155113&viewfull=1#post16155113 He succeeded.]]]]
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]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp6dnoc45Xs Then he did it again!]]
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* The fact that, after a shy and near-abortive start with the first game, the second ''Europa Universalis'' not only helped ParadoxInteractive become the studio they are today, but helped bring Grand Strategy computer games into the mainstream. The sister series - ''Crusader Kings'', Victoria'', ''Hearts of Iron'' - have only helped cement this over the years. If you were to claim in the late 1990s or early 2000s that a small Swedish studio would popularise this particular genre/concept of strategy gaming and become a big name European developer and ''publisher'' by the 2010s, you'd probably be laughed off. So, definitely an Awesome Moment for the entire dev team and company, after years of hard work and steadily growing succes.
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** Equally awesome are the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxR-XdJo2cA Conquistador]], "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sKHYaMLl5A&feature=related Para Bellum]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-rG8pD6iK8 Battle of Damascus]]" themes. "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmoiFNpWmpg Discover New Land]]" isn't bad either and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxwY1Oj9qMQ Swashbuckling Privateers]]" caters to your seafaring and piratey needs...
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** [[http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?709144-The-Three-Mountains-A-Ryukyu-AAR He attempted to repeat it in EU4,]] [[SaveGameLimits with Ironman mode on this time.]] [[spoiler: [[http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?709144-The-Three-Mountains-A-Ryukyu-AAR&s=2d313171ec5daa68d78167158f5caf1c&p=16155113&viewfull=1#post16155113 He succeeded.]]]]
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