Played a bit more today..
BiB still leads in VP but Poland's Empire is falling apart. BiB didn't fight a single war today.
It's now 1489.
February 6, 1474 : Austria declared war upon Ragusa.
I wanted a port. Ragusa was unallied. I had military access through venice, croatia and serbia, so I took my moment and annexed them for a port.
December 21, 1476 : Ragusa accepted our generous peace offer.
(We annexed them)
Spent some time upgrading forts.
January 10, 1481 : Austria declared war upon Mecklenburg.
Mecklenburg ruled Thuringen, and I wanted them so I'd have a land passage to my Saxon province. So in a brief war, Mecklenburg was forced to make peace giving Austria Thuringen and 170 gc.
BiB's doing nothing but whining now..
JOHAN (Bohemia) : you overexpanded bib
Huszics (Novgorod) : all U do is complain BiB =)
BiB (Poland) : tell me sommink I don't know
BiB (Poland) : though I am yet to get a pos stab event
PPete (Austria) : yeah, be austria and stick to german provinces.. same culture = win
JOHAN (Bohemia) : hmmmm
Doomie, as France, kicked English butt..
December 30, 1482 : France accepted peace with England on the following terms : Artois to France, Bourgogne to France, Orleanais to France & Franche Comté to France.
Bohemia lost a war to the Platinat and gave them the province of Hessen, but quickly thereafter they invaded and annexed Brandenburg.
Whose economy kicks ass?
JOHAN (Bohemia) : 18 ducats for each infantry
BiB (Poland) : I get my cav cheaper
JOHAN (Bohemia) : 18,32, 87 for me now..
Huszics (Novgorod) : 13,25,59 here
PPete (Austria) :5,12,34 here
BiB (Poland) : 7 14 56
PPete (Austria) :w00t, ive been best at controlling inflation
Bohemia attacked Mecklenburg..
May 13, 1486. Mecklenburg accepted peace with Bohemia on the following terms : Full Annexation of Mecklenburg by Bohemia
Austria exchanged maps for fun.. discovered India, Zanzibar and Atjeh!
We've done good..
May 1, 1486 : You were promoted to Regent.
Baden is still HRE. Virtually all Austrian provinces are level 2 forts now, we have a port, and added 2 provinces to our nation. Bohemia lost 1 province but added 2, so they're +1 for today. Poland did nothing. Novgorod was awful quiet too.
BiB has about 700 VP's, I have about 500. France (doomie today) has 420 or so. France is better than before but still nowhere near where it would be in the 1492 start. So they still have quite a bit to go.
Austria is very big, as is Poland, But all Austrian provinces are catholic, and all bar 3 are German culture. There's Ragusa, Savoy and that one Hungarian province that are of ungerman origins. But they're quite happy living as part of the Austrian Empire.
Austria has not gotten a single leader so far =( *Greven, doomie, do you're job! =p* But has done great. I havent had to take out a single loan.