I really like your take on the Hansa - it's an instructive and agreeable AAR you've got running here. So agreeable, in fact, that it is the reason you are nominated WritAAR of the Week. Congratulations!
I thought I saw you mention that 12 year numberAfter reading some stuff on the forums, my plan is to convert as soon as the reformation hits and take Deus Vult. After 12 years (or next NI slot), I'll switch to Ecumenism and up my tolerance over 0 for heretics. That should resolve the problems with taxes.
And to anyone interested in Multiplayer, I'm starting a Learning AAR for the Saturday Night Showdown, where I'm playing Sweden.
So at the expense of perhaps asking a really nooby question; what exactly is the significance of the 12 years?
Wouldn't taking Ecumenism first be better, to avoid the religous civil war events?
If I plan to convert with a relative stable empire, I let the reformation happen let provinces flip untill I get the religous war modifier. Then I choose the countereformation and start converting back until I lose the modifer.
With the Religious Zeal province modifier, you're in deep trouble for a couple of decades with this approach. By the time you can start converting, you might have a huge load of heretic provinces.
With the Religious Zeal province modifier, you're in deep trouble for a couple of decades with this approach. By the time you can start converting, you might have a huge load of heretic provinces.
I sometimes did this in IN, though, because getting rid of Religious Turmoil is useful and permanent...
confirm_thalassocracy = {
potential = {
OR = {
tag = VEN
tag = GEN
tag = HSA
}
government = merchant_republic
not = {
has_country_modifier = thalassocracy
}
}
allow = {
overseas_provinces_percentage = 0.5
land_naval = 4
}
effect = {
add_country_modifier = {
name = "thalassocracy"
duration = -1
}
}
thalassocracy = {
navy_tradition = 0.01
army_tradition = -0.01
bigship_cost = -0.2
lightship_cost = -0.2
colonists = 0.5
naval_tech_cost_modifier = -0.025
icon = 1
}