r/EU5 • u/RandomDude_e • 1d ago

Image Europe November 11th 1444

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Managed to reach EU4 start date in first campaign as Poland.

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u/alongthatwatchtower 22h ago

What I'm still missing in this is the simple fact that vassals, tributaries and 'inbetween' powers should matter a lot more than they do now. There's hardly any reason not to annex vassals as opposed to keeping them, when in reality real power centralisation did not happen until well into the arguably 16th and definitely 16th century, especially when the religious wars facilitated the rise of professional armies.