First previews makes the game look very complex and I'm all for it. Some notes of interest:
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Individual pops, every human on Earth is given a class, religion, culture etc.
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Pops are levied into armies affecting the economy
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Every culture is represented in some way, from Europe to the east with China and the west with the Aztecs and the south with Africa
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Start date is 1337, with the start of the hundred years war stretching 500 years forward
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Armies are levied from the population and need to be supplied with supply lines
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The fog of war is affected by terrain, and scouting seems essential to track enemy armies
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Trade has been reworked from EU4
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Plagues are represented, starting with the Black death