Europa Universalis IV

Europa Universalis IV

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Realistic African Colonization

In 1 collection by Claudio Maladestra
Historical Colonization and Expansion
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Description
UPDATED TO 1.34 - SWEDEN COMPATIBLE
This is a simple mod with three main objectives:

• It prevents colonization of African provinces if they aren’t coastal. No more Spaniards or Englishmen in the interiors of Kenya in 1600!

• It’s now impossible for Europeans to declare war on an African nation if that nation doesn’t control any coastal provinces. In practice, this prevents Europeans from expanding deep into Africa. Africans can still freely declare war amongst each other.

• Maghreb is often overtaken by Spain or Portugal, but this mod applies a province modifier on the whole region that prevents it from being converted to Catholicism (and therefore culturally). This region, with its mountanous terrain and harsh climate, was as impossible to control as Central Africa in this time period for a foreign power. This does not affect the ability for European powers to declare war on Maghrebi nations and viceversa.

I suggest playing this mod with my other mod Eurocentric Colonization (which prevents non-Europeans from colonizing) and especially Eurocentric Institutions (which makes all institutions spawn in Europe and reduces their spread).

Credits:
Special thanks to @vittorio.turri whose mod No European Expansion in Central Africa was the stepping stone for this one. I wanted to expand on what he did to make things even more realistic, albeit less versatile.
Thanks to @Zemurin for the precious feedback and help on updating the mod.

This mod might not work with Extended Timeline or any other mod that changes core mechanics of the game (like declaring war and colonizing).

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Aug 5, 2020 @ 9:48am
Issue with Muslim Stronghold Modifier
Barook
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TesaVonAtti May 19, 2024 @ 10:42am 
Could you make a similar mod for Oceania? It annoys me to see Spain colonize Australia in 1610
see two Oct 2, 2023 @ 3:12am 
cheers, I grabbed just the scripted function to prevent inland colonization
Zemurin  [author] Apr 26, 2023 @ 5:59am 
While we wait for @Claudio Maladestra to grab some time and update the mod, I've pushed a 1.35 update over here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2967440220
Mechero Mar 26, 2023 @ 2:19am 
Great mod, but because Egypt isnt a part of "North Africa", if your capital is there you cant take anything in Sudan or the Horn of Africa, which is a bit silly. Inland South Africa was also historically colonized and settled by Europeans in this period so that should also be an exception.
So_and_so Feb 10, 2023 @ 12:23pm 
Maybe somehow change the "muslim stronghold" modifier to allow convert heretics? Some sort if a "province owner: is not in a muslim religion group -> mofifier is active". If you are ibadi you cant convert sunnis and vice versa.
Mirage5699 Dec 22, 2022 @ 3:37am 
Btw I want to suggest an idea for India is it possible to gave like disaster that last for 10-20 years for any nation above 500-700 dev that have a capital in the Indian subcontinent like the eclipse of empire mod but only for India. Ive just always hate how nation like bengal would just expand to china and how nation just never seem to change
Kisigi Dec 5, 2022 @ 1:43pm 
Oh YEAH!
Claudio Maladestra  [author] Sep 14, 2022 @ 10:09am 
:diplomacy: UPDATED TO 1.34 :diplomacy:
Claudio Maladestra  [author] Aug 6, 2022 @ 8:29am 
:diplomacy: UPDATED TO 1.33 :diplomacy:
William Jun 25, 2022 @ 1:34pm 
Any plans to update this? Only mod that stops Spain becoming a country in Africa.