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Beyond the Cape

Beyond the Cape is an overhaul mod that changes how exploration and naval gameplay work, making both feel more natural and purposeful. It draws on the real challenges of early sea expeditions, updating how your nation discovers new lands and adding new ship types, mechanics, and strategic choices.

If you want a better Age of Discovery, better naval battles, or more content for exploration-focused nations, Beyond the Cape expands on all of it.

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• Exploration Maintenance has been removed. Expeditions are now funded upfront with gold, sailors, and supplies.
  
• Explorers generate Monthly Progress to Outward societal value based on their administrative ability.
  
• Expeditions can fail, making exploration dangerous but rewarding when successful.
  
• Deep Ocean and the new Cape topography require special advances before they can be explored.
  
• Explorations can only launch from coastal locations that are connected to the capital, share the same market, or contain a lieutenancy or viceroyalty.
  
• Steal Maps now costs 100 spy network.

If you wish to use only the above exploration features without the rest, check the relevant associated mod below.

• All ship types and stats have been reorganized and rebalanced.
  
• Transports have been renamed to Supply Ships, shifting their role toward logistics and naval support.
  
• Fire Ships have been added. They have high firepower, low hull size, and explode on contact. They must be converted from galleys.
  
• Bomb Ships have been added. They are poor in direct combat but very effective for coastal bombardment.
  
• Middling Ships have been added. They combine the maneuverability of Light Ships with the firepower of Heavy Ships.
  
• Massive Ships have been added. They are enlarged versions of Heavy Ships that trade speed for more firepower and hull strength.

If you wish to use only the above navy features without the rest, check the relevant associated mod below.

• New Sound Tolls have been added at:
  
  • Storebælt
    
  • Strait of Messina
    
  • Bab-el-Mandeb
    
  • Strait of Malacca
    
  • Sunda Strait

• Historical voyages currently impossible due to EUV's area-based system.
  
• Expanded content for exploration and colonization powers.

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Beyond the Cape - Navy
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