There’s also a free update alongside the expansion, as usual with Paradox add-o-boxes. Their opinion of you will obviously matter as well, and if they’re an empire, they simply won’t sell to you at all. “Buying provinces has been requested and discussed before,” says Leiper-Ritchie, “but we had to put it in such a way that you can’t just throw money at people to win the game.” That means there will be a cap on what they’re willing to give you, regardless of how much money you’re willing to burn. For example, the developer explained that Europowers will be able to buy land outright in the expansion, but within limits. But if you want more, Fraser Brown previously spoke to Paradox Person Jake Leiper-Ritchie for us about the Dharma expansion in finer detail.

You can see all the new or updated features on Steam or on Paradox’s store page. “Your wooden teeth look like a stable door, English idiot.” That’s probably not one of them. If you get sick of dirty Europeans, however, you’ll be able to send them a “scornful insult”, which is like the regular diplomatic insults that already exist, except this one is deeply personal and tailored to the recipient. Meanwhile trade companies will grant bonuses to any province that houses them, but this will also greatly benefit the foreign power that runs the company. There’ll be new mission pop-ups for Indian rulers, a refreshed estate system, and new castes of people, including brahmin with which to calm unrest. It’s adding ruthless European charter companies to the region, as well as monsoons, the caste system and a bunch of “scornful insults”.Īs you can see via the medium of chess analogy, the expansion is all about competition between Indian lords and encroaching European powers.

I’ll have to just play strategy game Europa Universalis IV’s upcoming Dharma expansion, which is reworking the Indian provinces on September 6. But fair enough, I can’t afford the airplane ticket. I’ll go wherever I please, up to and including Goa. “Don’t you go to Goa,” a wise band once sang.

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