

I wasn't asserting bad patch trend practices lightly. Where despite all attempts one-sided access still happens with a fair amount of frequency (concurrent wars or especially against tributaries) yet your own subjects can screw you over by allowing Spain to march through the Ottomans/Egypt to Morocco because everyone gives a 2PM vassal access.Īnd we're supposed to buy that such was an improvement over "having military access means you have military access, and if you lack it you don't". Then it was patched out, and instead of intuitive + internally consistent rules we have the hot garbage that is military access in EU 4 2019. That was a thing that actually existed, in the game we have right now. It was not reciprocal, could be denied by countries that didn't like you (getting it with heathens took significant improved relations), and made your diplomacy vs opponent's diplomacy with neighbors in a war an important tactical consideration. Once upon a time, before your forum join date, military access *did* matter in EU 4.
