Dev Diary 2018-10-29

Welcome to our third dev diary for 3.8, due out November 2 to the public and on early access now. Today we go on a brief overview of the new mission trees/branches coming with 3.8.

Ethiopia
As one of the areas to undergo significant map changes, Ethiopia gets its own mission branches focusing mostly on securing its borders and subjugating the numerous petty kingdoms surrounding her. The Coptic mission branch and generic African missions are preserved, as well as some beyond-historical missions to advance in Somalia and into Yemen.



Morocco
Another area to see some map changes, Morocco's missions focus on an attempt to reclaim parts of Iberia (starting with their taking Gibraltar from the Granadan Sultanate as they did in 1310) as well as advancing east along North Africa. Historically their hold on both regions was short-lived, but was not beyond stabilizing. Additionally the tree covers later Moroccan advances south across the Sahara and the potential for expansion into the New World if the Iberians can be brought down.



Tunis
Historically the Hafsid sultanate managed no meaningful expansion in this period, but one could conceivably imagine their goals being a conquest along North Africa similar to what the Wattassids of Morocco attempted and the restoration of Muslim rule on the island of Sicily.



Bulgaria
Not an area that saw map changes in 3.8, but another nation that presents an interesting start in 1309. The Bulgarian mission tree focuses on the conception of a "Third Bulgarian Empire" replicating the conquests of the second empire, dominating the Balkans region, and eventually taking Constantinople from their long-time rivals.