
"You can assign control of your provinces to local factions – priests, nobles, or even Cossacks! – sacrificing some income in the name of lower unrest, more manpower or cheaper cavalry. You'll also be able to promise land to allies should they help you to get what you want. I'm most intrigued by that Estate system though, as well as a mechanic described as "Tell The World What You Want", which allows you to designate provinces you're greedily eyeing up as "areas of interest". There are also changes to espionage, horde unity and the changing of culture. New colonial management options seem essential and if the Estate system works as well as suggested it could improve the domestic management side of the game enormously. Paradox's Cossacks introduces lots of pleasant features in between all the insults. The video is adapted from the "Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks", a historical document of uncertain origin that makes the voiceover's insults seem tame. You'll lose out on some income but gain benefits related to the faction in charge. The key addition is the "Estate system", which allows you to assign control of provinces to local factions. As the name suggests, there's a spotlight on the independent soldiers of the steppes but the new features mostly seem to improve your options for peacetime management. The next expansion for Europa Universalis IV goes by the name The Cossacks and it'll be with us before the end of the year.
