Quote Originally Posted by andrewt View Post
How big is the research bonus given by republics anyway?
I did a little test i started the game on VH as all starting factions in Europe and clicked on research button without putting any scholars in then noted the number of turns till Percusion Shells

all Absolute monarchies had 83 turns
the 2 const monarchies had 78 turns
and the one republic(nl) had 78 turns
so about 5% for both CM and rep