Reformation?

[Boulis]

1517,correct, but you onlu got 13 years before the game ends, so no point in making a big deal out of it unless they do a expasion and/or mod..

Although I agree with Watchman about the elegance of CA's choice to simply increase religious unrest to "simulate" the Reformation, I do think the original question is valid in regards to the way events in the timeline are set up.

In other words, thirteen years should not be the only reason to ignore such a major event. Especially since there is a New World element in the game. For example:

Luther posts his 95 Theses......................................1517
Hernan Cortes invades Mexico..................................1519
Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent besieges Vienna.........1529

The argument that the Protestant princes in the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire did all they could to tie Charles V's hands in the war against the Ottomans is a common one among historians.

[geala]

Reformation (it was not lutherism alone) and counterreformation started a new world of warfare. 30-years-war was only one culmination. It would indeed be great stuff for an expansion (although I like medieval times more). The standardisation of arms and troops would be a bit boring perhaps.

The battle system had not to be changed very much. TW armies behaved from the beginning as "modern" as 16th century or later troops. I don't know many medieval battles with cleanly separated indepedently reacting bodies of troops instead of massive battlelines with perhaps 2 or 3 divisions beneath or behind each other.