Chapter 8: The second Hanseatic-Teutonic War
July 25, 1416: Austria gets excommunicated. This reminds us to throw a gift at the pope: getting excommunicated would be disastrous for us, since it crushes our relations with all our league members.
September 2: The Teutonic Order guarantees our Independence. They're so thoughtful!
October 16: A trade station is opened in Danzig.
December 1: Our fearless leader passes away, so an election is held. We pick the diplomatic candidate. Apparently, we were very literal.
January 23, 1417: The Mamluks go over the infamy limit.
April 8: We cancel our mission, and get the Swedish Steel mission, requiring Iron trade rights in Sweden again. That takes 2 days, and our next mission is a Naval Race against the Teutonic Order. No thanks...
May 18: Peasants rise up in Lubeck to be crushed. Or not.
August 8: The peasants are kicked out of Lubeck.
March 7, 1418: Burgundy declares war on the Netherlands and annexes them.
July 16: We score a coup: Cloth Trade Rights with Milan.
August 1: Burgundy declares war on and eats Liege. With no French cores anymore, Burgundy is a real problem.
October 6: Alsace joins the Genoan Trade League.
October 9: Slider move to Free Subjects makes us look weak. Bring it on...
October 17: Alsace leaves the Genoan Trade League. Hrm...
February 10, 1419: Alsace joins the Genoan Trade League.
February 19: Alsace leaves the Genoan Trade League. This becomes a recurring theme...for years.
March 22: Bastards! Right after we get relations with Polotsk to 181...she joins the Novgorod Trade League. This is a common problem with folks on our borders.
August 4: Savoy forces Venice to end the vassalization of Naxos. This bears watching...
October 1: Ferdinand I of Bohemia becomes Emperor.
December 1, 1420: We secure Wine trade rights with Alsace. This makes the continual fight to get Alsace in a trade league even funnier.
In other news, we have another election. Hoping to get a Diplo leader that can do other things, we do not return Otto to the position of Statholter.
Hrm. At least he's a 4 shock general...
March 10, 1421: We learn that we have somehow lowered relations with the Pope, as those Teutonic bastards get us Excommunicated. Don't think we'll forget this.
Holland immediately leaves the Hanseatic league, and begins trading in Antwerpen.
June 6: Bohemia gets in a war with Poland and Austria. This is a problem, since they're who we need to save us from the Teutons.
November 9: Instead of declaring war against us, the Order declares war against Mecklenburg. Maybe their diplomat got tired of walking and just decided to declare war on wherever he was?
The TO ends up at war with Wurttemburg, Pommerania, Bohemia, Munster, Hesse, and Mecklenburg.
January 1, 1422: After the Teuton armies have passed by and gone marauding Pommerania, we declare war on the Order to reclaim Warmia.
January 29: Merchant Fractures event - we go 1 step Mercantilistic for free.
March 1: Nobles demand recompensation. We lose 1 stability telling them where to shove it. In the war, our 11 regiments (3/8) are ready to kick the 8 regiments of the Teutonic army out of Warmia.
March 8: Having been kicked like a red-headed stepchild by Bohemia, Poland institutes Liberum Veto.
April 5: The Teutons attack is Danzig, stupidly. Pommerania becomes a vassal of Brandenburg.
April 11: The Teutons besiege Lubeck.
May 1: A victory in Warmia opens the door for us to run down the Teutonic army. The Teutons are defeated in Ostpreussen on the 25th, Memel on June 18, and wiped out in Samogitia on July 1. We begin besieging Ostpreussen, Memel, and Samogitia, as the Teuton army in Samogitia has been wiped by our allies.
December 18: Our great general-Statholder dies in Memel, and we elect another diplomatic candidate. This has an advantage: we lose Excommunication.
December 20: New mission: Bring England into the Fold. This will be hard.
August 8, 1423: Merchant Fractures again, lets us maximize Mercantilism. In bad news, Bohemia has occupied Warmia.
October 1: Stability returns to +3. We're at 9.96 WE.
December 9: White Peace between Bohemia and the TO. We rush to retake Warmia.
January 7, 1424: The first HRE reform, Reichsreform is proposed. We vote against, but it passes.
June 17: As Warmia falls, we force the Order to cede all their Prussian lands except Ostpreussen (their capital). They are also forced back into the Hanseatic League.
