HOW TO PLAY :
- Choose a nation, set your difficulty, and review starting strengths, neighbors, and strategic objectives.
- Build your economy by developing provinces, balancing taxes and upkeep, and investing in infrastructure and production.
- Marshal your forces by recruiting units, organizing armies, appointing capable generals, and maintaining morale and supply.
- Shape diplomacy by forging alliances, negotiating treaties, managing reputation, and leveraging rivalries to isolate foes.
- Advance society by researching technologies, passing government reforms, and responding to events that affect stability and ideology.
- Command campaigns by planning routes, exploiting terrain and weather, timing offensives, and achieving war goals to secure lasting peace deals.