DESCRIPTION

General description

The aim of this mod is to improve your Netherlands experience compared to the one found in vanilla Victoria III and fix the historical inaccuracies as found in Victoria III patch 1.1.1. This mod has been made to retain the vanilla balance, so the starting resources (e.g. number of pops and starting buildings) of the Netherlands are identical to vanilla. Only Curacao and Bonaire can provide (Dutch Zulia) some additional resources eventually. You can see in the screenshots some of the additions and changes this mod provides to your Victoria III experience when playing as the Netherlands. Also, the AI will be perfectly fine to cope with these changes, so adding the mod will not disrupt the Victoria III AI.

The main changes presented in Netherlands Improved mod (v1.05) compared to vanilla Victoria 3 (1.1.1):

- Netherlands now has laws from the start that reflect its historical laws in 1836

- Netherlands has the been given an additional state (Brabant), which is a split from the vanilla Gelre

- Vanilla Gelre has been renamed to Gelderland

- Gelderland has received one province extra from Friesland (the Apeldoorn, Deventer area)

- Major redistribution of pops to fit the new state

- Catholic pops are now the dominant religious pop in the south of the Netherlands as well as some in the north.

- Curacao and Bonaire (single province) have been added from Venezuela to the Netherlands

- Cities and other hubs in the Netherlands have been corrected by relocating and renaming some of them.

- The flag of the democratic republican version of the Netherlands has been changed to represent the colours used in the Dutch and Batavian Republic (red, white, light blue). Consequently, the flag of Luxembourg has a slight change from using red to now using faint red.

Not part of the mod right now:

- Aruba/St Maarten will not (as of yet) be added right now, as it would require to build a new province map. Furthermore, they are so small that they will hardly impact any dutch game. Their addition would disrupt the vanilla files map files a lot and therefore impact the future compatibility of this mod with regard to Victoria 3 patches and other mods.

If you like the mod, please do not forget to rate it so that more people can more easily find it in the future.

CHANGELOG

v1.05 - Released 2022-12-10

Changelog v1.05 • Made compatible with Victoria 3 patch (Earl Grey) v1.1.1

v1.04 - Released 2022-11-06

v1.03 - Released 2022-10-31

Changelog v1.03 • Redesigned the locations and names of cities and other hubs on the map for the Netherlands • The state of Brabant should now be fully functional and all visual effects of city growth visible again.

v1.02 - Released 2022-10-30

v1.01 - Released 2022-10-29

REQUIREMENTS

Victoria 3

Full game

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