You can now curry favour via diplomacy by hiring diplomats and tasking them with chatting up foreign governments. There are also new ways to earn favour, which allow smaller and less aggressive nations to jostle for power without being constantly embroiled in warfare. The DLC proper introduces a range of new mechanics, the most prominent of which is the new favour system, which massively increases their utiltiy beyond preparing for war. This is all available in the latest free update, and you don't actually need to pay to spice up the indigenous Americans. So what does this latest invocation of Thomas Hobbes' big fish metaphor bring to Europa Universalis' already burgeoning banquet of grand strategy?įirst up, American native tribes have nearly a hundred new provinces to their names as well as a load of new flavour events, which should bring new life to an otherwise slightly neglected continent. Yes, there's a Leviathan expansion for Europa Universalis IV too, not to be confused with the Stellaris expansion by the same name.