Age of Absolutism (1444-1700)

⚠️ IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER

This mod is NOT compatible with HOI4 version 1.17 or any update beyond it.
To play Age of Absolutism, you MUST roll back to version 1.16.10 in Steam’s Beta tab.
Future compatibility will arrive once Paradox stops shaking the game map like a snow globe.

AGE OF ABSOLUTISM – A Total Conversion Mod (1400–1600)
“What if Europa Universalis V released… inside HOI4?”

Age of Absolutism is an ambitious, long-term total conversion project that transports Hearts of Iron IV far outside its usual 20th-century sandbox and drops it into the dramatic, violent, and politically unhinged world of 1444 to 1600—the age of monarchs, empires, religious wars, exploration, gunpowder, rising absolutism, and the early seeds of modernity.

This isn’t a simple timeline tweak.
This is a full-scale reinterpretation of HOI4’s systems to make them feel native to the Early Modern era, while preserving what makes the engine fun: production lines, logistics, strategic planning, and the thrill of painting the map your favorite color.

If you’ve ever wished for an Europa Universalis V experience but with the mechanical depth of HOI4, this mod is exactly that dream brought to life.

🕰️ THE ERA: 1400–1600

This expanded timespan includes:

The peak and expansion of the Ottoman Empire.

The Fall of Constantinople and the end of the Medieval world.

The spread of gunpowder, professional armies, and military revolution.

The Reformation, religious fragmentation, and continent-wide conflict.

The Age of Exploration, colonization, and emerging global trade networks.

The early Enlightenment and a Europe transitioning from feudal dynasties to centralized states.

Armies based on knights, formations, and mercenaries.

Production focuses on swords, early artillery, ships, horses, and tools.

Slow state development and heavy reliance on diplomacy.

War exhaustion, attrition, and long conflicts matter.

Navies and sea lanes become the backbone of empires.

Just like EU4, every nation—from France to random German microstates—is usable.
Some majors will eventually receive full trees; minors use generic but flexible ones.

🌍 WORLD MAP & POLITICAL STRUCTURE

The map is reshaped to reflect pre-1600 geography:

Reworked borders across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

Dozens of new states and early modern polities.

Major powers like the Ottomans, Ming, Castile, Mamluks, Muscovy, Poland-Lithuania, Austria, and France.

Hundreds of minors, from Italian republics to German principalities and nomadic realms.

🗺️ ALT-HISTORY FREEDOM
The mod encourages wild possibilities:

-Byzantine Empire Never fell.
-A Japan that conquers the Pacific in 1600.
-An Italy formed in medieval era.
-Restore the Crusades ideas

History is a suggestion—rewrite it however you want.

🧩 CURRENT STATUS & DEVELOPMENT

Development continues actively!

🤝 COMMUNITY & SUPPORT
If you want to follow progress, report bugs, help with development, or simply argue about borders. Everyone is welcome—devs, historians, testers, and lunatics like me lol:

👉 Discord Server: https://discord.gg/WQuUxYr3Zt
🔶 PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Fran_tonico_proyects?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=copyLink 🔶

⭐ SUPPORT THE PROJECT
If you enjoy the concept or want this mod to grow:
⭐ Rate the mod
💬 Leave a comment
👀 Follow for updates
🔶 Use Patreon 🔶

This helps visibility enormously and keeps development going.

⭐USED CONTENT (Thanks creators to allow me to implemate it 👍)

Map and States: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3609308151
Focuses, ideas and more GFX: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2804130722
Late Medieval Reskin: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3174695437&searchtext=medieval
Generic Focus Tree: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3479363313&searchtext=generic+focus+tree
Vintage UI: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3415196297&searchtext=vintage