It’s a strategy game but it feels more like a story generator-it rewards play with the kind of grand, alternate history narratives that only a systematic game can offer.Ĭonquest of Paradise is the first expansion to Europa Universalis, so it has a very clearly defined job to do-to give the game the tools it needs to tell me new kinds of stories-and it does its job well. If you are unaware, Europa Universalis IV is a game of world history where you take control of an independent realm in the 15th century and bring it all the way to the 19th, making decisions and controlling armies along the way to change the course of world history. It’s the US formed in the 1500s, built on dogmatic faith instead of freedom of religion and culturally Portuguese instead of culturally English. A continent-dominating world power, a safe haven for merchants and a world-leader in military technology-and a place where owning a Bible not in Latin is punishable by burning at the stake. The Republic of Haiti has grown by pushing aside whatever native tribes stood in their way, and it has become a world-leading nation. De Paiva created Haiti as a republic based on free trade, personal liberty and complete dedication to the Catholic faith. That very same day however, the governor, Guilherme de Paiva, with no intentions of being a vassal lord, created the free republic of Haiti, declared himself President and broke free from a Portuguese Kingdom in no shape to protest. But while the colonies thrived, the Portuguese kingdom was falling apart at home-so on August 2, 1512, the Portuguese king installed a governor in Mohawk, with the idea that he-the king-could then concentrate on his problems at home, and tax whatever goods the colony produced. By 1512, they held a large chunk of land and several fully formed colonial cities.

The Portuguese found the New world in April of 1472.

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