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Europa Universalis 4's Leviathan expansion launches next month

March 30, 2021 Paradox has announced that Leviathan will launch April 27.

Paradox has unveiled the next expansion for its grand strategy game Europa Universalis IV. Dubbed Leviathan, this expansion will offer new development options that allow players to "play tall" by establishing smaller, more concentrated realms. The new EU4 DLC will come alongside a free update that reworks EU4's Southeast Asia and Australasian regions, both slated to launch April 27.

"Picture a capital city that shines like a gemstone, improved by the wealth drawn from the hinterland - decorated by riches demanded from vassals," Paradox's description of Leviathan reads. "A capital not of a mighty territorial empire, but of a compact and concentrated state that can still use gold and favors to influence neighbors and rivals."

With the Leviathan expansion, players will have access to new ways to develop their nation's capital city, even building beyond the province's construction limitations - at least, as long as you have the money and resources to pay the steep price. The expansion "offers new tools that allow you to play 'tall' with smaller and more focused realms with a few centers of power," Paradox says. "It also has a host of other changes to well-established game features like Regencies and Colonies."

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Europa Universalis IV: Leviathan coming April 27th 2021

Not everything has to be brute force. Armies are necessary, of course, but there are other ways to succeed. Build a force of diplomats, for example, and use your flattery as a weapon against others. Or draw wealth and power from the remote regions of your realm to construct a metropolis to be the engine of your economy. You can try many new routes to global power in Europa Universalis IV: Leviathan, coming next month.

Leviathan is the newest expansion to Paradox’s grand strategy classic about the early modern world. The first release from the Barcelona based Paradox Tinto, Leviathan adds new options for diplomatic and economic play, and will be available to Europa Universalis players on 27 April 2021.

One of the highlights of Leviathan is the ability to use diplomatic Favors to gain benefits from other nations. If you post a diplomat to curry favor in a foreign nation, you will slowly build up enough diplomatic power to request material aid, changes in alliances and even the return of core provinces.

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Other features of Europa Universalis IV: Leviathan include:

New Regency Options: Regency councils represent the interests of the most powerful estate, and can be extended to delay the ascension of an unfit monarch.
Specialized Colonial Nations: Let your colonies focus on military help, trade power or self-government.
Concentrate Development: You can now steal development from your vassals or territorial possessions to enhance the power of your capital city.
Pillage Capital: Loot an enemy capital as a condition of peace, hauling development back to the capital metropolis.
Expand Infrastructure: Provinces can expand their capacity to build new structures and manufactories, allowing smaller nations to create centers of wealth for a modest cost.
Centralize State: Reduce the cost of government by spending unused Reform points.
Totemism: Nations that follow the Totemist religion can revere a pantheon of past leaders, earning bonuses that reflect the skills they had in life.
Monuments: Expand and establish great projects, adding new bonuses to your empire.
New Unit Models: New army sprites for Southeast Asian nations, including Indochinese, Indonesian and Polynesian nations.
And more: Including the ability to carpet siege enemy provinces, draft transports as a plutocratic nation, watch heirs gain legitimacy as they wait to inherit the throne and other changes.

As usual, Leviathan will be accompanied by a major free update available to all Europa Universalis IV players. This update includes modifications to the maps of Southeast Asia and North America, with major gameplay changes for North American First Nations. It also adds Australian Aboriginal nations.

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EU4 cheats - a quick guide to console commands

So, you're looking for some EU4 cheats, are you? Perhaps you've also seen our Victoria 2 cheats guide, or maybe our primer to Hearts of Iron 4 cheats? Paradox grand strategy games are big, complex, and they can last a long time. Things can also go very wrong - so wrong that not evening save-scumming can help you - so you may find yourself in a need of a helping hand.

Like most games, Europa Universalis IV has an in-game console that allows you to input commands to achieve various effects. EU4 especially is a mature and quite intricate strategy game, with a myriad of goals you might need help accomplishing that may require targeting at province, or even country level.

We've put together a guide to cheats and console commands in EU4. Unlike similar articles we've done for other grand strategy games, we're not going to print the full list of commands available. A full list is available here if you want to look at it. We're also going to give a shout out to Strand, whose excellent Steam guide provided a basis for our own text below.

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Now Paradox offer a DLC subscription for Europa Universalis 4 too

Last month, Paradox launched an optional subscription service for Crusader Kings 2 which gave access to all its expansions and DLC for a small monthly fee. Now they're doing the same with another grand strategy game. Yesterday they launched a separate subscription for Europa Universalis 4, once again offering all the expansions and DLC for a price of £4/month. And it's still optional, they're still selling stuff separately too.

It's a double whammy for Europa Universalis IV fans today. You may remember a few weeks ago that the team at Paradox Tinto - the new studio formed in Barcelona to support EU4 - released a multiplayer patch that they then instantly unpatched because it broke everything.

Now they're ready for the 'Nakama' update to have another go, and today released patch 1.30.6. You can read the full patch notes to remind yourself what exactly this update is doing, but essentially it's designed to try and overhaul the backend so the team could spend more time bug fixing and adding features, and less time managing multiplayer.

Also releasing today is the EU4 subscription service. We've heard rumours about this for over a year now, and we know it was being tested. Crusader Kings II recently went live with its own subscription last month, and this new offering will essentially be the same. For a fiver a month, you can get access to the entire EU4 DLC library, for as long as you keep the subscription going. This will include the upcoming Leviathan expansion, as well as any future premium content.

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Europa Universalis IV News

Europa Universalis 4's Leviathan expansion launches next month

Europa Universalis IV: Leviathan coming April 27th 2021

EU4 cheats - a quick guide to console commands

Now Paradox offer a DLC subscription for Europa Universalis 4 too

The EU4 subscription launches today, and the Nakama patch is making a comeback