Now I know that I am going to meet heavy opposition for this idea, but here it is.

Limit the campaign map to just the northern coast of Africa up to Tunisia, where Carthage is. Cut out Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Babylon, Armenia etc. Only have Anatolia/Asia Minor/mordern Turkey. and just the territory around the Black Sea. This frees up two more faction slots: Mamlukes and Golden Horde are out.

New factions: Confederation of the Swiss, and Portugal.

Cultures:

German Culture:

Saxony
Bavaria
Hapsburgs
Imperial Diet

Romance/Renaissance Culture:

France
Castile
Portugal
Naples
Milan
Venice

Highland Culture:

Scotland.

Reformation Culture:

England
Burgundy
Swiss Confederation
Kalmar Union

East European Culture:

Russia
Hungary
Poland.

Islamic Culture:

Ottomans
Moors

This way we can inject many more provinces into Europe and focus all the major cities. We just need the scale of the map to be much larger. The Ottomans start in southern Anatolia. I know that people won't like Egypt, Palestine, and Libya being excluded, but it will make the Mod more focused on Europe, while still having the Ottomans.

What are your opinions?