Europa Universalis V

Update 1.4 adds Expeditions, Tariffs, Canals and a Political Influence resource, changes how war leadership is assigned and rebalances cavalry. Paradox says a 1.3 save loads but recommends a new campaign. The Across the Pillars pack released alongside it.

• —315 new Advances for Iberia and the Maghreb; Crusades and Jihads get a two-phase structure with a shared war chest.
• —War leadership is no longer handed to the strongest country automatically; it is offered or demanded.
• —Some Expeditions are global races where only the first nation to succeed gets the reward.
• —Rolling back is through Steam's Game Versions and Betas tab; 1.4 Beta saves are fully compatible with live.

Update 1.4 adds a free campaign timeline that replays a save day by day with population, economic base and tax base charted, and marks the Black Death, the discovery of America, the Columbian Exchange and the Little Ice Age.

• —The timeline replays a save day by day and charts population, economic base and tax base.
• —It marks the Black Death, the discovery of America, the Columbian Exchange and the Little Ice Age.
• —Paradox is aiming at ticks 40 to 50% faster than 1.3, largely from parallelising AI work.
• —It ships free with update 1.4, not as part of the Across the Pillars expansion.

Version 1.4 gives Laws their own panel, adds a Turmoils panel gathering diseases, rebels and movements, and lets players see and edit building queues per location instead of cancelling the lot. A new Uncontrolled Wealth mapmode shows where tax is escaping.