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[Tarran]

Frequent instagibs of 10 stacks by 2 stacks?

[Culise]

Probably, but that cuts both ways.  Digging through the combat mechanics, the maximum leader skill, unit attack/defense, and terrain modifiers are all order 1.  The practical effect of the die result appear to cap out at 13 at the highest and -2 at the lowest, which correspond to 120 or 4 base casualties per day respectively (modified further by discipline, tactics, units, and all that jazz), and morale damage is proportional to casualties rather than the die roll directly.  Since the die is rolled per side rather than per unit, basically, one side will almost always gut the other side while taking minimal losses themselves for a given phase, but that'll vary wildly - since it's one die per side again, and since all other modifiers are essentially overwhelmed except in marginal cases, it reduces combat to little better than a coinflip done every three days. 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

What if you put the range** number to 1*?


* thinking that in theory if both sides will roll the same 'casualty' number, then battles will be affected by things like.. generals, morale, discipline, pips, [modifiers and such] much more, correct?

** Ends up it's not a range just a hard number

[WealthyRadish]

Having that diceroll constant be high does serve some purposes, since otherwise you can get dreadful ping-ponging and battles in general will last longer. I also think some random element is necessary to keep the battles interesting, since otherwise they're quite boring to watch and you never get those surprise moments of an exceptional outcome. On the flipside, it also sucks to have a battle that decides a war be lost or have huge losses just because they got a +9 buff on several of the initial phases. Since they added that define I've kept it at around a 7 sided die, which I think is a good tweak.

[Digital Hellhound]

That's... weird. I've always been able to start playing colonials at any point (I need to sometimes, so I can customize province names). You sure you have CoP installed/active currently?

[Descan]

Er, no, you don't have it. You can play as a tribe, but you can't do the CoP-specific Native mechanics, like move your single-province state, or use the Native-only tribal technologies to reform.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

For those who might not know there is a new "mini-DLC" planned for July called Res Publica. Live stream here.

Some details scrapped off the Paradox forums:

Spoiler: general information (click to show/hide)

Humanism is a new Admin idea group, and it adds more religious tolerance and culture tolerance bonuses.
Religious ideas no longer has tolerance and is instead just focused on conversion and possibly culture conversion.
Naval is now a military idea group and there is a new Maritime idea group in Diplomatic instead (didn't quite catch all of this one)
Elective Monarchies (ie Poland) will get a way to invite existing dynasties to take their throne, giving out bonuses although it's not clear exactly what this entailed
More Republican events generally, including factions
Dutch Republics in particular focus on factions although it wasn't clear if other republics get factions too. But Dutch Republics are now an interesting mix between monarchies and elections.
If your republican tradition gets too low in a normal republic, you don't go straight to monarchy. You become a republican dictatorship where your ruler rules for life. If you keep your RT high, you'll stay dictatorship (or republic?) but if your RT is low when you're a dictatorship, then you slip back to monarchy.
Merchant Republics can build trading posts now for big bonuses or something. One per node.
Manpower is now based on tech, not basetax.
National focus lets you "choose your monarch stats" so you can get 5 in one category and 2 in the others and this can change every 25 years. Unclear how this relates to monarch power points or if that means there won't be any random rolls at all anymore or how republican re-elections will matter then.

Spoiler: new ideas (click to show/hide)

ADMINISTRATIVE IDEAS

Administrative
-10% adm tech cost instead of -10% inflation reduction cost

Humanist new idea group
+25% religious unity
-2 revolt risk
+3 tolerance to heretics
-10 years of nationalism
-50% accepted culture threshold
+33% better relation over time
+3 tolerance to heathens
-10% idea cost

DIPLOMATIC IDEAS

Diplomatic
-10% dip tech cost instead of claim time

Influence new idea group
+25% income from vassal
-33% claim fabrication time moved from diplomatic
-25% diplomatic annextion cost
-10% aggresive expansion
+5 dip rep
-25% envoy travel time, +10% imperial authority
+33% subejct forcelimits
+1 dip slot

Maritime new idea group
+1 naval tradition
+10% light ship combat ability
unknown
+50% naval forcelimit
-20% ship cost
+1 naval leader manuveur
+50% blokade efficiency
ships can be repaired in sea zone

MILITARY IDEAS

Naval ideas moved from diplomatic
+1 naval leader shock
+10% galley combat ability
+1 naval leader fire
+100% prestige from naval battles
-10% naval maintenence
+10% heavy ship combat ability
+15% morale to navies
+10% ship durability

Quality
+10% naval morale instead of light ship combat ability
-10% naval attrition instead of heavy ship combat ability


Offensive
-10% regiment recruitment time instead of manpower bonsu

Quantity
+50% global manpower
+20% manpower recovery speed
-10% regiment cost
-10% land maintenance
+25% naval forcelimit
-20% building power cost
-10% land attrition
+33% land forcelimit

It looks alright but personally I would much prefer them to sort out all the shit they flat out broke in the 1.6 patch.

[MoLAoS]

Humanist and administrative just because incredible and influence. However I wish they would drop merc bonuses from administrative into something else.

[PanH]

Quantity just went from Good to Godly, it seems.

[MoLAoS]

Quantity just went from Good to Godly, it seems.

Why can I only choose 8 ideas I call shenanigans!

[FritzPL]

Can I form Prussia as Hansa? I already have core in Ostpreussen, Warmia and Danzing, and Prussian is an acceptable culture - I understand that I need adm 10 in order to form, but I should have the decision before reaching that, right?

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Wiki says you need to be Prussian, Saxon, or Pomeranian to form Prussia if you're not Brandenburg or the Teutonic Order. You'll need to culture shift as the Hansa since it's Hannoverian, just having Prussian as an accepted culture won't cut it.

[FritzPL]

Damn. How do I go around doing that?

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Been a while since I've done it but I believe you have to move your capital to a province with the desired culture and then have enough provinces with that culture making more income than provinces with your primary culture. Most people game this by releasing vassals and selling them provinces.

[FritzPL]

Right, I'll try that. Thanks for the help.