Merric Chance':
When will you pass Anatolia to Trezibond?
With the sort of questions asked I feel bad about keeping the provinces in the East. I did plan to retain only the ones that enable me the control of the staits, but now with both Greek and turkish cultures accepted I waver. If I am to remain a temporal power with some say in European politics I need money and manpower. And Trebizond, well a client state should not grow too powerful, should it?
Athalcor:
I do not think that smashing France would be beneficial - IMHO the Catholic Powers would only forget their oaths to Rome.
I'm definitely not going offensive against France, no matter how weakened it may seem. Btw it's Protestant now, so on the other hand something should be done about it.
JacktheJumper:
And, yes, HREmperor Bohemia ruling over Austria and Low Countries and in alliance with Portugal would be an epic situation to have, will you ensure (somehow) this happens?
Please!
I have no means to do it sadly, bar save-editing. So far, minus Austria that's the picture anyway. On a happy note, in my next installment I took into account an earlier suggestion of yours.
Thanks.
blsteen:
Till the Bohemians decided that they should rule all of Italy too...
I tremble. and a strong Emperor may turn power-hungry, I've seen it in my other games.
The Papacy definitely needs a better navy.
It does, doesn't it? Too bad i'm a bit stingy.
loki100:
whow .... so if I understand, the east may decide to find its own way, the Emperor is using his control over the Papacy to further his own ends in Italy & Protestant France is resurgent ...
Right. Your first point is what's been slowly but steadily going on in the recent decades and is the immediate threat story-wise. And for me: the big question how to go about it in the game.
aldriq:
This could get quite messy... I just hope we don't end up with the next Pope releasing a mini-Byzantine Empire as vassal - although at the same time it would be the biggest insult to Bohemia
No such option. MM must have cleared the cores. Quite understandably pbly as all the area is Catholic now. I can release a two-prov Greece though (Salonica and Edirne), other provs with Greek cores are held by Naples, Venice, Genoa and the Knights (Greek lands have been partitioned).
Those 'Bankrupt vassal' events happened a lot in your Navarran game as well, didn't they?
Yes. And as in my Navarran aar i have the House of High Lords. I just focus on this feature here a bit less. still, it spices up the vassal-overlord relationship immensly.
Scrollreader:
I've always had a soft spot for the papal states, and this mod really seems to add an awful lot of appropriate flavor and versimilitude.
Indeed. And it takes to play the Pope to feel and appreciate it fully.
Chris Taylor:
I don't know if I've ever seen a monarch/pope with as many good modifiers as Adrian VIII. Maybe when he's done sorting out the Catholic church here he can come to one of my games sometime. Even the 9-9-9 prodigies don't usually get such a raft of useful modifiers.
Yet a grisly end was destined for him. His spirit may roam freely now, nothing stops it from helping William III.
In fact 'church leadership' and 'tithes' are not personal traits but stuff related to DG's papal authority; so he only got 2 good modifiers.
I think France will rise to greatness again; it can often knit itself back together after a decade or two.
I hope so too. Even if it scares me.
From the last screenshot it appears that Hungary is sizeable and perhaps on its way to monsterdom.
So, as they're heritics, it's the Papal responsibility to curb them.
Venice should be punished for sponsoring (or at least siring) Adrian's assassin.
Dunno, they're too invaluable an ally with their navy, especially now that Genoa's gone its own way.
Will France be strong enough to intervene in the Austrian succession? Losing Austria to the Papists would surely be one of the greatest disasters for French foreign policy since the rape of France years before.
Patience.