As I know some you are loving EU games, I would like to ask you for an advice. It's just my crazy curiosity, becasue I can't find any mentions about it anywhere. Is there any chance how to play a game as a country, which does not have a core province in a game during the whole period of Grand Campaign?

 

As an example is Catalunya, which should be formable, but I have not found a way how to form it without existing core provinces. I have found some mentions about National Rebels but how could I help them to rise in Aragon or Castille?

 

Thanks!

Nationalist rebels are random, they require a rebel stack to be spawned with the right ethnicity and to capture a province- which adds the core, CAT for Catalunya in this case- and to hold it for an extended period. Practically I'm not sure I've ever seen a Catalunya form because Spain and Aragon gets Catalan as a primary culture/ they're in the same culture group which means there is no baseline chance of nationalist rebels. Other nationalities are fairly likely though.

 

You can quite easily mod the game to make a particular country either be available from the the start or more likely to form by adding cores to its potential lands such as Barcelona from the get go, that just involves altering the province data in the ..\history\province folder, in that case you would add a 'add_core = CAT' line to start Barcelona with a Catalan core.

Edited October 12, 201510 yr by Zoraptor

Thank you for your answer,

 

Now it makes all sense. I have found few hours ago an article, which says, that you can "Unlock" Catalunya, when you own some/all of the provinces with Catalan culture as France for example, and let them revolt. And that you never get the country, when you own the provinces as Aragon or later Spain.

 

In that case, the chance for spawning Catalan or Aragon rebels should be 50/50 %.

 

cheers.

Edited October 12, 201510 yr by Mamoulian War