Sad end for Tuscany, exiled to cold lands and then annexed by Savoy Inheriting Sweden would give you a fast-track Baltic dominance
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You're at peace, can't DoW because of the regency and the French don't like that?
This seems good, the Casus Belli system in HTTT is interesting, could anyone describe it? I have EU3 Complete, so I play IN. I found Brandenburh rather hard to play at this time period, its a wonder how you are managing so well.
Sure!
The CB system essentially lets you choose war aims when you go to war with someone. However, you can only choose 1 CB when declaring war, and you can't change midstream. Some of the CB's mimic functionality in IN (the Holy War CB, for example, lets you take provinces at lower infamy from heathens before 1650, just like IN, however, it also reduces the war score cost of provinces).
Every CB lets will reduce the infamy, increase prestige, and reduce peace cost for certain actions. It also affects the war name (no more 241st War of Brandenburgian Aggression). Some CB's are triggered, and have a fixed time limit (such as Conquest CB's for missions, dishonored call CB's, etc).
Two examples:
Nationalism requires Government Tech 30, and halves the badboy and peace cost for provinces of your culture group, or to annex nations in your culture group. You can only use it against nations that hold provinces of your culture group. The war score costs and infamy cost is selectively applied only to eligible provinces, so I can't use it to take Polish provinces from Poland, for example.
Liberation requires Bill of Rights, and the target must either have vassals or be able to release nations. It halves the war score cost to force the target nation to release nations or vassals, and remove nations from their Sphere of Influence (an HTTT mechanic that gives you a CB if anyone does pretty much anything to the target nation).
At the beginning of the game, you won't have as many useful CB's, but as the game goes on, you'll get more, and you have to be careful which CB you want to use. For example, I can use Imperialism or Conquest on Poland - Conquest since I have the mission to connect the Prussian Lands (0% infamy and 25% war score to take Danzig and Warmia), and Imperialism since I'm an Absolute Monarchy (one of 5 govt types that get this CB, giving 75% infamy for all provinces). If I take conquest, then I'll pay dearly to take anything but Danzig and Warmia, but if I use Imperialism, I don't get the reduced infamy/war score cost for Danzig.
Ah, finally missions give you CBs!
Spheres of Influence sound like a godsend for those nations which have 200 relations, alliance, RM, etc but still dont want to be vassalised.
The downside is that once under someone's sphere, the AI tends to not renew guarantees, so it actually is easier to take out the nation inside the sphere of influence, since only one major nation is protecting them. Other than that, it's quite neat.