When in a strategic area each fleet has a value indicating how spread out it is. Just like the strategic air war navies spend most of their time on missions in strategic areas, but are also able to move province by province. Combine that with the art itself, which mimics the look of a World War II-era troop map, and it certainly matches (or even surpasses) the production value of Paradox's recent work.
The map is also a work of art-as each day passes, real-time lighting indicates whether it's day or night. The interface is much improved from the previous Hearts of Iron, most notably by making it obvious how many divisions are in each region again. We'll restart the game so you can get back in." The Paradox team laughed at me and basically said "Yeah, that's a horrible country to try and start as. I decided to try and play as the Golden Horde, at which point I was promptly conquered by my neighbors in the first five minutes and booted from the game. The first time I demoed Europa Universalis IV the dev team wanted to play a bit of multiplayer with us.
Ideally, a Paradox grand strategy title is something you ease into, like training for a marathon-except instead of limbering up and gradually building endurance, you're sitting in a desk chair for hours on end sipping scotch and occasionally muttering to yourself about tariffs. Demoing a Paradox game is probably the worst trial-by-combat I've ever experienced in this industry.
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