About This Content Enhance your Europa Universalis IV experience with new unit designs for armies of the Mediterranean and East Africa! After all, when the pageant of history unfolds on your computer screen, it’s important to be up to date with the latest fashions. Overrun your enemies while kitted out in the hottest new battle tunics!The Mare Nostrum Content Pack includes:Italian Unit Pack: Four historical infantry designs for each of the major Italian powers – Venice, Milan, Naples and Florence/Tuscany (16 in total)North African Unit Pack: Four historical infantry designs for each of the lands of sand – Mamluks, Tunis, Morocco, and Algeria/Tlemcen (16 in total)East African Unit Pack: Four historical infantry designs for each of the major powers around the horn – Ethiopia, Nubia, Swahili and Somali (16 in total) 7aa9394dea Title: Content Pack - Europa Universalis IV: Mare NostrumGenre: Simulation, StrategyDeveloper:Paradox Development StudioPublisher:Paradox InteractiveFranchise:Europa UniversalisRelease Date: 5 Apr, 2016 Content Pack - Europa Universalis IV: Mare Nostrum Key I don't know much about the historical accuracy of the appearance. I just wanted to replace the ugly standard units for my favourite nation: The Mamluks.The only issue is that if you turn into Egypt or Arabia, you will lose the unitpack and get the standard muslim units back. I don't know how I could ever get to the last units in this unit pack if by that time I will have plenty of time AND reason to reform into another country.. i love the italian modals but was very dissponted when it reverted to basic troops when i fromed italy. I personally love these packs as they add a fun little visual element to the game. Though saddly they seem to miss out on their ture potential by how limited they are. This one for example dose this with the Nubian and Somali units being applied to only one nation each (not even by far the major nations of those groups, Funj is a major power in its area but only if you start the game after its founding) even though there are around 4 Nubian nations and about 6-7 Somali nations.The skins for the North African states are like this as well as they are limited one nations each (Ture this time at least two are on the major nations of that culture, but one is limited to a nation that if you start from the begining of the game will likely never show up) even though many other nations share those cultures. As well two of them depict members of those cultures as black skinned instead of Arabic. Funnier still those smaller Tunisian nations who dont get their culture's skin were more likely to have this dark skin that the game makers have given the custom skin. I'd also like to end this on that I am happy that the new update has expanded out Africa, but upset that Kongo was left out of any new skins in this DLC dispite its own unique place in history.. New Units! I'm probably alone on this but i really really really like new Unit pack dlc's, i wish they would make more. I do however agree that buying all the unit packs is costly, but then again, you DO NOT need unit packs to playm the game properly, the same whit some Major Dlcs. The two DLC's you should probably get is Common Sense and Art of war. Not that you should not get the others, but thoose two are the most important DLCS in my opinion. You do NOT need unit packs to play the game, but its a nice touch to it! I love you Paradox :). Sadly, the developer for this pack chose to ignore a significant flow of constructive criticism offered on Paradox forum and released it as is. I purchased it to support Paradox for making amazing games but that's it. I disable this pack in my games because I can't stand looking at this monstrosity.North and East African units are a disaster (save Morocco and Nubia). Tunisian and Algerian units are especially tragic given their super dark skin color and rag like uniforms. Such a great opportunity missed.. Terrible design choices that are both ahistorical and technically incorrect.. I bought it primarily for the Ethiopian units (and their East African neighbours so they can at least look good while I drive them into the sea)For that it was fine, but as an overall package...not so much.Standard Paradox DLC rule #1: It's ridiculously overpriced. BUY IT ON SALEStandard Paradox DLC rule #2:Its buggy \/ half-a**ed \/ poorly implemented out of the boxThis particular DLC has to get the thumbs down because Paradox managed to epically underacheive on both counts.Its was only a model pack for crying out loud... There wasn't much to get right but apparently releasing a half baked product isn't only reserved for full games and expansions.In the alternate universe of this content pack, the Renaissance apparently \u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665 Italian metallurgy since the poor Venetians never figured out how to make a cuirass and only managed to come up with chain hauberks a couple of hundred years after everyone else.Half the Berbers looked more like Bantu refugees who manage to drag themselves into the 18th century in rags and bare feet.Paradox may well fix most if not all the screwups with the skins & nation allocation, but honestly...I'm tired of the dev's using paying customers for QC, and having to wait weeks \/ months from time of purchase until I can play it without cringing (or a 3 month table-flip rage-quit boycott...yeah I'm talking about you forts...I haven't forgotten)The only reason to buy this (or any EU4 DLC actually) is because you are trying to maximise \/ salvage the playability of a game you've already sunk a couple of hundred dollars on.For someone coming in cold & looking at this pack...walk away now.Find another game \/ studio that hasn't turned "listening to the fans" into an excuse to churn out overpriced t**ds for the community to polish up. this unit pack is really deplorable, something really sad, sice the one for cossacks was marvelous, and it has a lot to do with quite poor design and technical choises, and blatant disregard of feedback and criticsm given by fans during the dev diaries for this pack1: exept for maybe naples all tier 3 italian units are badly equiped, tier 3 is supposed to be reached late 17th to early 18th, century, maybe even before for florence, and this units look stuck in the 15th century, i can tolerate the chestplates, as they are not entirely ahistorical, but the chainmail is just too much2: another problem with the italians, exept for milan, the tier 4 units are practically the same! florence and venice are just color swaped, and the napolitan one is just missing one belt from that3:the east african units are all fine exept for the tier 2 ethiopian, it looks too westernized for it's period, and it's out of place along the other 3, quite good models4: while the models are ok, the implementation of the nubian and somali packs is all wrong, only one nation gets each, and it's the two province minor that gets engulfed by a larger neighbour most games, and the neightbour that eats them is most comonly the same culture, thus deserving of the pack5:just like it, the north african pack is poorly implemented, most games algieries doesn't even apear, tlemcen could very well use those models, the skin tones picked for algieris and tunis are estremely wrong, and tier 3 and 4 tunisian units look like slave soldiers, i have to admit the mamluk and morocan packs are sweet, but like always, it's shame to see my sweet mamluk models go away when i become egypt, which in many respects, is the SAME NATION!!!!6:overall, just like many of the ones that came before, this pack dissapointed me, just like before, when it was weird to see the same models through the muslim world, from the steppes to the magrebh, something that the cossacks one at least mitigated by giving many of the hordes unique models, now i still see andalusian, berber, nubian(alodia and makuria) and somali (everyone exept mogadishu, for real?) dressing exactly the same, even theough they have almot nothing in common?7: even on top of what i just stated, the worst thing about this pack is that due to the blatant disregard for feedback, and the artists just flat out ignoring many features the EU4 engine provides was the thing that made exarcervated my favorite modder into quitting my favorite mod, sadly this is the unit pack that KILLED the extended units packs mod, a mod that fixed a lot of the issues that paradox just refuses to fix, as it exented all models you owned into nations which fit them. I often play in Italy, so this DLC helps spices things up. BUT, I wouldn't pay full price though. Also, WHERE IS SAVOY\/SARDINIA-PIEDMONT!
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Content Pack - Europa Universalis IV: Mare Nostrum Key
Updated: Mar 18, 2020
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