With Art of War and Patch 1.8 going live at the end of the month, I wanted to let you know what's going on.

The mod will be considered incompatible with Patch 1.8 and Art of War as I have do a number of things in order to make sure things work right. However this is to be temporary.

First thing is that I have to change the map, thankfully this step is much easier since I'm not going to need to redraw too much, this is to allow for the use of the new provinces to be added in Art of War. The BIG annoyance is going to be coming from the change in province numbers, I have made it a rule that the Paradox assignment of province numbers supercedes the ones I've used so a number of provinces will have to have their numbers shifted in order to account for the new provinces, meaning I have to change anumber of decisions, missions, and events that rely on them. Tedious but not all that hard.

Second, I have to ensure I'm using the 1.8 files that I don't intend to amend. Learning a few tricks form the EU4 Wiki and Forums is going to allow me to cut down most of the file bloat (currently the mod is distributed with the entire province history, country history, country "common" files due to originally not knowing how to redirect files, this will eventually change so that the mod takes up less bandwidth to download and to load into the game.)

I expect to have this done in time permitting, three to four months. Some things are going to take longer than others, but I'm optimistic of being done in February. Things might change to where it can be done sooner, but right now I'm not entirely sure its possible.

As for playing the Mod in 1.7.3 instead of 1.8 during the temporary incompatbility period this can be done through Steam by following these steps:

From the Steam Library Page, Right click the listing of Europa Universalis IV.
Select Properties.
Select Betas Tab.
Select Version 1.7.3 from drop down menu of available versions.
Steam will update the game to 1.7.3.
Play the mod as you normally would.