Might be interesting. They DID say that diplomacy would be more complex, so those lines might represent protectorates or something similar.It looks really good and I'm kinda glad they dumbed down the campaign map so we don't have to deal with annoying terrain.
I'm not sure about the provinces being merged considering you can see lines in the Ottoman turk empire. I guess they represent nations of the era (Potential egypt and greek rebellion against the Turks?)
It'd be cool if you could annex nations while letting them retain a semi-seperate government.
Tallyho lads, rape the houses and burn the women! Leave not a single potted plant alive! Full speed ahead and damn the cheesemongers!
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