Rework hometowns?

The Ottoman, Japanese, Chinese and Indian hometowns are all weird in one way or another.


The Ottoman hometown seemingly has no unique asset or customization option other than Hagia Sophia.
Also, I heard that in this time period it would be called Konstantiyye and not Instambul.


The Japanese hometown has a castle as its treasury, a building seemingly based on the Temple of Heaven (located in Beijing) as its imperial court, a weird pagoda thing labelled as a fortress, and their commons house seems to be based on a Shinto shrine


The Indian hometown is named after Delhi, but includes the Taj Mahal which is located at Agra.



The Chinese hometown also has nonsensical choices for the importand buildings (the small round pagoda is the imperial court and the manor-looking building is a fortress, for example).

And while I was writing this topic, I’ve been informed that the German cathedral is based on Köln Cathedral, which is not located in Berlin (the German home city).

And this one has been brought up multiple times before, but the cathedral used in the Portuguese, Spanish and Maltese hometowns is Lisbon Cathedral and should show up only in the Portuguese home city.

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Yes, Istambul was only renamed in 1923…

One I just found out about: the British and Dutch home cities use the same cathedral model:



I only realized because that same model is reused for the monastic church in the new Wars of the Three Kingdoms historical map (as the Monastic Church)

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You can rename it at some option

Just for the purity of perversion, I’d want to see the British homecity from the alpha version in DE. Please ignore the frame, I need it for my mod. :rofl:

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To be fair to the Japanese home city, I’ve been to Osaka Castle and Japanese citadels just kinda…look like that.

The new Danish home city looks really bland and empty:


The real Frederiksborg castle looks much more colorful, though I am aware that could be due to modern reforms:

I’d make the in-game castle’s roofs brighter and more saturated, like in that photo. I’d also maybe add those gardens as customization option.

This area in front of the industry seems completely unused, including for customization options: