Set around events from the turn of the 18th Century, Empire includes a reworked map that reproduces the contemporary national borders and political affiliations of nation-states across Europe – including an expanded Austria, disunified Germany, a joined Poland-Lithuania, and an encroaching Ottoman Empire. Available to download now, the mod transports Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand-strategy wargame back to the 18th Century, overhauling the game’s map and scenarios to come in-line with the events of the bloody aristocratic machinations of the early 1700s.
Hearts of Iron 4 alternate history mod Empire, released on February 5, has you don doublets and bodices to wage war in the final decades of the absolute monarchy.