Nec Temere, Nec Timide - Danzig/Gdańsk MMP Xmass Edition

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JDMS: France's allies: Orleans, Provence, Castille and Muscovy

aldriq: no taxes -> happy people ? you actually gave me food for thought: why haven't I made my people's day by enacting low or even very low taxes yet?!

axzhang:

Have the exploration decisions been taken by the AI yet? Northwest passage has pretty high naval tech requirements so you may have time to core Connaught and launch the decision. That means you wouldn't have to waste NIs on getting ME&C.

not yet, but i'm afraid now that France subjegated Btrittany, it's only a question of time; so it's likely i'll have to go ME&C route

I miss Hiring Fair and MMP2

i love this feature, it is perfectly balanced imo; the only thing it lacks is some guide to its MMP incarnation, especially requirements and chances of getting particular advisors with specialised fairs

 

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1485 – 1494​

1486 passes quietly. The beginning of 1487 doesn’t bode well. Soon piracy in Danzig is no longer tightly controlled. And I lose content commercials; they’re only neutral. Lűneburg and Bishopric of Bremen got some sort of anti-Hansa events; this might weaken Hansa. But the worst is this:

You can also see my merchants' activities. 1488 starts with 100d investment into Local Port in Danzig. Imperial prestige finally rises to 20, strangely enough, at the time when Maria Theresia is fighting pretender rebels, and our City becomes part of the Empire; thus it gets protected by the Empress. Gamey, i know; but if it's there why shouldn't I take it? Interestingly, Austria guarantees my independence also as the Duchy of Austria.

But bad news comes too. Pirates. I hesitated with uncontrolled, but when it deteriorated to rampant I decided to hunt them!

1489 brings a big change in the Empire. Austria in a civil war (I think), fighting pretenders (i guess, i wasn't paying attention) loses the HRE crown to Bohemia. I reckon this is good news, now three land HRE powers protect me: ally - Brandenburg, guarantor - Austria and Emperor - Bohemia; add to this England and Poland and I feel quite safe. So safe actually that I guarantee other Hansa cities: Bremen and Hamburg (I leave out Riga as, unlike the others, it isn’t protected by a host of German states AND England). In due time, it took Rigchtstag a while to understand that Danzig holds Danzig lawfully, my rights to Danzig got recognised.

Also, I decide to change the form of government to a merchant republic since it seems much more suited to my goals: +1 yearly merchants and -10% merchant cost. It’s better administrative-efficiency-wise too. And indeed a few months later our government is no longer ‘competent’, it’s ‘good’ instead. As in merchant republics ‘rulers reign until death’ I wish my brilliant consul (no longer mere burgomaster), Ferdinand Feber, a very long life! I also hope he will help regain stability fast. I am too (fully, actually) decentralised though, so I’ll have to do something about it. Luckily, ‘Nobles excluded from power’: +5 rr and -10% Direct Tax, the modifier I got with the change of government, doesn’t hit Danzig, my only (potentially) rich and important prov, but the new holdings instead. Actually, even with this modifier Connacht is my richest prov tax-wise earning me a whooping 0.21-!- in tax, (Danzig due to rampant piracy is at 0).

Ősel, it seems, is slowly coming to terms with Danzig’s overlordship to finally core in 1494. That will not change much. It is still very poor and wrong-culture; the culture won’t get accepted as the province is so sparsely populated. Hopefully, the core will reduce the time to regain stability.

Meanwhile I see Bohemia embraces secular humanism and pushes for the reform of the Empire. I say ‘yes!’ This improves my relations with the HRE.

The time passes peacefully. The money is rolling so I can spend it on some improvements: Urban Workshops. Poland becomes the Defender of the Faith; hmm… I take advantage of ‘Peace and prosperity’ event giving me +5 prestige to cancel the ‘Protect against Pommerania’ mission and get a much nicer and more doable one. Dunno if it is thanks to peace and prosperity but piracy in Danzig decreases to uncontrolled.

In December my genius consul dies and, no election in merchant republics, I get a new one. A much more mediocre one.

Internationally:
1486
Novgorod dows Pskov; again, sigh…
The Papal States pay Naples 30d for peace.
Venice annexes Mantua (without Austrian intervention Venice actually has a chance)
Morea dows Naxos thus attracting OE, Naxos’ protector; AI has to be taught to take guarantees into consideration. This war is very short; Morea has to part with Athens, Achea and pay a few quid.
1487
The Papal States cedes Romagna to Venice. End of conflict.
The New World gets divided between Portugal and Castile
1488
Denmark – Austria: white peace. This leaves Denmark still in war with German minors. Sweden is no longer in PU with Denmark and separately peaces out with Trier (the alliance leader). Denmark pays 59d later in the year.
Novgorod – Pskov: white peace.
Tver accepts 20d from Novgorod for peace and momentarily Muscovy dows Tver. (It's a common thing AI as soon as it finishes a war jumps into a new one)
1489
Tver cedes Yaroslavl and some gold. Muscovy didn’t vassalise it, which means one more war pbly.
1490
France concludes its wars. Immediately, what is left of Brittany becomes Aragon’s vassal.

1492
France annexes Auvergne
1494
Kazan forces Muscovy to release Ryazan. How weird is that a Muslim khanate frees an orthodox prinxipality?

I watch Castile, which managed to hold on to controlling the Pope. I’m not sure of the effects of the events Castile gets; some are related to religion, some to colonisation.

And as we’re on the topic of religion; as much as I like Dharper’s religious minorities I believe some balance is needed here. Look at this religious map of Lithuania. This is very common, it happens in most of my games. One might think that with Ecumenism and Bill of Rights Lithuania won’t attempt converting; enjoying happy, tolerated minorities instead. As you see this is not so. If you say it’s only three provinces, well they’re orthodox till this day despite their turbulent past (and being for decades part of catholic Commonwealth). Do you really think Kiev could be converted that quickly? I fear this trend will continue. I don’t know whether Lithuania sends missionaries or uses province/national decisions; their choice of advisors probably helps them here. Is it still the same in MMU?

 

[Rabid]

Conversions will almost always happen too fast compared to history but the alternative is never being able to convert provinces (I've been in this situation, having only 1-2% chance to convert a same culture group core province because its base tax was too high, and the chance went negative if my ruler had poor admin). Compared to vanilla, where those provinces would all be 100% Catholic, it's a vast improvement.

 

[Urza]

imho the problem is that conversion chance only gets a negative modifier from base tax, not from other factors like population size (both measured by urban population and manpower), how well established and interlinked with culture a religion is in a province or other considerations. Since Lithuania's provinces are mostly poor base-tax wise (Kiev is a bit better though, they must have gotten pretty lucky there), they can be converted much more easily.

Danzig getting its rights recognized for Danzig made me chuckle.

 

[JDMS]

Good work. Do you have any major threats at the moment?

 

[aldriq]

Imperial prestige finally rises to 20, strangely enough, at the time when Maria Theresia is fighting pretender rebels, and our City becomes part of the Empire; thus it gets protected by the Empress. Gamey, i know; but if it's there why shouldn't I take it?

Why gamey? Surely your bureaucrats were busy spamming the empress' office with letters until they eventually got a positive reply

What government did you have prior to merchant republic?

 

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Rabid:

Conversions will almost always happen too fast compared to history but (...). Compared to vanilla, where those provinces would all be 100% Catholic, it's a vast improvement.

I see your point, and i just can't say how much i adore Dharper's work on religion-related stuff in MM; still in case of Lithuania it really is: 1) implausible (no point in historical debate, i belive most will agree) 2) unbalances the region (when Pol and Lith merge into Commonwealth it's almost entirely Catholic, making it somewhat stronger; if Russia takes these provs, it has to convert them back) and 3) it negates the very point of giving Lith Ecumenism as its 1st NI and even the point of this NI as such

Urza: Interesting observations, fully agree;
also, wouldn't it be great if ideas like Ecumenism in some way disinclined a faction from convertion efforts; redirecting its efforts somewhere else? An interesting question: can AI be taught that it may and how to benefit from being tolerant?

JDMS: Frankly, i feel pretty safe as part of HRE with all those guarantees and England as my ally; i think i can survive a direct attack, there are worse scenarios if i get dragged into war by my ally or my own guarantees

aldriq:

What government did you have prior to merchant republic?

MM has a few special governments, Imperial City one of them; the pics will explain everything:

 

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1494-1499​

The early years of Mathias Brandes’ service were reasonably peaceful at home. As for the wider world they witnessed four powers voice their ambitions. Bohemian Emperor, Ferdinand I, was the first to express his aspirations. Given a chance to once again take a position on Renaissance ideas he opted for the Church’s guidance this time and soon sought the crown in Rome, which in due time he was granted. Thus emboldened he finalised the first step in his grand plan to reform the Empire: the Reich Court was created.

Louis I, Duke of Burgundy, was less successful. Having lost the war with France he wanted to improve his country’s standing pleading the Emperor to advance Burgundy to the rank of a kingdom. The plea fell on deaf ears. Will this seal Burgundy’s fate?

Much more worrying for Danzingers were the Polish Baltic aspirations. In a short war Poland vassalised TO and soon annexed the Livonians. As a result they got alarmingly close to Ősel. Wherever I run, they follow me. For the time being I have advantage in the Baltic and a bunch of powerful allies/guarantors secure me from the frontal attack. Of course, as a opm I would stand no chance anyway, but as a three-scattered-province minor…?

In the distant east one more power is entering the stage. After a few false starts and a handful of failures Muscovy, with the help of MM scripted events (badly needed as it seems, at least in my game) assumes, or tries to, its role of a power to reckon with. Luckily, the demise of Novgorod is not bad news for Hansa. As for Danzig, the thing is we had a trade agreement with Novgorod and we don’t have one with Muscovy -> Russia and are unlikely to get one.

Now, it turned out that putting five merchants in Lűbeck proved harder and took more time than expected. Still 50d reward exceeded (barely) the costs of sending traders there, not that it matters that much. What's more, the CoT in Lűbeck is no longer that profitable as Bremen has already opened a Cot of its own and split the market. Now, I don’t really know how I feel about the whole concept of missions. It seems to have incredible potential but it is all on paper. At least playing the Hanseatic Danzig some of them give real flavour and the rewards are worth trying, but even here the missions soon become like copies of one another. And you know, even if you love raspberry ice-cream, how many cones can you eat? The generic missions are even worse in this regard. Just look at this one. What do I care about Nuremburg? How can I achieve it? So I think I’ll give missions a miss for some time. It’s been fun at the beginning, but now… Is it only me or do more people feel that neither vanilla EU nor MM managed to come up with an idea how to make the most of missions concept?

Now this odd war is in fact very interesting for me. The war of Scottish succession is good news as it means the end of potentially dangerous Scottish-Swedish alliance. You know if, or rather when, England dows Scotland, I wouldn’t care and would go to war just to stick to my ally (so that it doesn’t turn against me) but if Sweden supported Scotland, without English help I’d stand no chance in the Baltic. The Swedish-Scottish link broken, hopefully for good, I have one thing to worry about less. So I wish them a long war and turn to other errands.

Like what to do about the church reform. As you pbly understood from my earlier posts I thought of abandoning Catholicism, preferably for the Reformed church (the tempting +5%TE); but since most of German princes, the Emperor and my ally England opt for Church’s guidance I have second thoughts. Bordering Poland, the Defender of the Faith, can’t be ignored either. So, sadly…

Funnily enough, the Renaissance ideas in my holdings spread starting from Connacht. Huh! More funny things: Poland, the Defender of the Faith - remember, embraces Secular Humanism!

I minted for a few months, raising my inflation to 1.5, all in order to pay for an – incredibly expensive in MMP - manufactory. I decided on university as Danzig doesn’t produce any compatible resource anyway. Meanwhile my 4-star banker died. I found a 3-star one to stand in for, no problem. He dies pretty shortly, ok there’s a 2-star one. Now I realise that for my economy I’ll need more MsoM or at least bankers in the future and the pool is running dry. I don’t shun using/spending on hiring fair, but I’m not quite sure which one gives MsoM and/or bankers. Can you give me some tips? Or, is there anywhere on the boards a comprehensive guide on the MMP version of hiring fair? Help please! (I respect the MM spirit that advisors should be wildcards and see ‘hiring fair’ as an ideal compromise. Frankly, the fact that with HttT you can have whatever type of advisor you want is for me one of the elements that puts me off this new expansion. There’s a fine line between boosting your chances and just producing a Mitterand, a Copernicus or a Newton that you need.)

And you know just when everything seems smooth sailing... a bunch of aristocrats concocts a plot. That is nasty! What options do I have? Throw, substantial sum of, money on the problem? But, wait, I’ve just splashed out on the university. ‘Pursuing the conspirators’ is my first impulse but these 19k(!) peasants to my 5k dispersed forces – no, I turn tail. I hesitate between ‘Ceding some power’ and ‘Changing overall policy’ and finally go for the former. Why? Stab costs are high enough anyway (it’ll take till May 1502 to reach 3 again) and I really want to stay plutocratic – I’m a Hansa member after all. Money? Hmm… I trust my merchants will earn me more than this ‘donation’ from aristocrats (patricians?). Tax reduction is sth I can live with anyway, although it feels weird to get 0(!) from your yearly tax; and see 0(!) tax income in all my three provs!

It appears that even though I wanted to play a peaceful trading nation, war comes knocking at my door quite often. But first I see Austria believes Europe had been too peaceful and attacks its favourite target: Montenegro. I grit my teeth in anger to chuckle a moment later. In this game Austria can’t get away easily with its attempts at forays in the Balkans. Serves them right! Bullies! And they appear to have such a genius duke!?

The war which involves Danzig starts in March 1499; it’s Clevian succession war - no big deal hopefully. England-Cleves and England-Hannover links early. I can’t say ‘no’ and there seems to be no risk, so hear the bugle call…

 

[axzhang]

Government focused Hiring fairs (which can only be enacted in your capital) are what gives Masters of Mint. I haven't played MMP1/2 in ages though so there's a chance I may be incorrect.

How's Poland's navy? They don't have a cored port yet so you can still defend Osel, right?

 

[JDMS]

Well this seems like an easy war. . .

 

[Urza]

Interesting developments. Hiring fairs, I don't know if there is a guide, but all the specialized fairs strongly increase chances to get an advisor of their respective group, while without choosing a specialized fair, all types of advisors have an equal chance of appearing. I use the 'government focus' fair the most, it is for diplomats, statesmen, philosophers, artists, theologicians, spymasters, high judges, and inquisitors. For masters of mint and bankers (among others), use the 'economy focus' one.

 

[Davisx3m]

Interesting

 

[aldriq]

Poland is getting quite scary, hopefully now they've reached the Baltic they'll leave you alone (yeah right ).

I agree that the HttT advisor supermarket is quit over-powered, hiring fairs are a much better compromise. Having said that, I still think that you should have free access to 1-star advisors, to model the fact that you want to influence your government in one direction or another. Appointing someone to do something specific in your court should always be an option, even if you can only get a mediocre appointee.

 

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axzhang: thanx for advice; Poland begins to look scary but now i'm part of HRE and have strong guarantors so they'd have to long-wait Danzig the province (not that i long a war with them)

JDMS: it turned out to be two easy wars

Urza: 'economy focus' hiring fair you say, i'll put it to the test one day, i still have enough infation-reducing advisors for the time being

Davisx3m: weclome!

aldriq:

I agree that the HttT advisor supermarket is quit over-powered, hiring fairs are a much better compromise. Having said that, I still think that you should have free access to 1-star advisors, to model the fact that you want to influence your government in one direction or another. Appointing someone to do something specific in your court should always be an option, even if you can only get a mediocre appointee.

interesting view, why don't you put it forward in MMtheGame section?

 

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1499-1503​

I naturally join the war and even, after a while, decide to move my troops just to check if I might get anything from it. So I put my 3k army from Ősel onto cogs and, having secured military accesses, send my 1k cavalry from Danzig on reconnaissance.

After joining the war, I immediately get a message that my silly previous mission is obsolete and get a new simple yet profitable one. It doesn’t take long to complete it and I was thinking of momentarily revoking the embargo when…

Yes, Denmark attacked Lűbeck. Apart from Gerrman states and the Emperor Lűbeck is protected by England. I take my time. Order my 1k cavalry back to Danzig, position my cogs so that I can disembark in Gotland and send my four galleys to help the English fleet fighting the Danes. As soon as they reach Őresund I plan to join the war. For the time being I ignore the glitch in the game – I got no new mission?! This war will be much more important than the Clevian succession one. Denmark stands no chance so on 3rd of June I willingly take over the leadership from England – will they hate me?

Maybe at first it seemed the Danish fleet stood a chance but as soon as Bremenians turned up with their famous nukes, followed by Hamburgians it was soon all over and the Danes were sent to the sea bed, to sleep there eternally. It all seemed way too easy, really. +5 prestige and no war exhaustion – not that I’m not complaining.

Meanwhile my 3k men land on Gotland where they are confronted by 1k of Danish defenders lead by Frederick I in person! I know AI is only AI, but Danish AI is one of the dumbiest, I understand it must be difficult for it to plan a war especially as their provs are so scattered but this invasion is imo bad planning at its worst. Denmark left its provs exposed and now it is vulnerable at sea too.

It all goes very fast from now. Bremen orders storming Oldenburg and the province is quickly taken; interestingly it enables England to move further south and actually engage in its conflict with Brunswick over Cleves. Naturally, I send two of my galleys to join prestige-stealing battles; the rest of Danzinger fleet blockades Denmark. The Danes sit on their islands and in Skåne helplessly watching the peninsula being overtaken.

Soon Hamburg occupies Holstein. I check: Denmark is left with 3 galleys and 8 transport ships. In October they ask for white peace. Of course I say ‘no!’ but I start wondering what I want from this war. What I don’t want, for example, is too weak Denmark: inviting Sweden to dominate Scandinavia today and threaten Hansa tomorrow. Meanwhile the mission glitch gets resolved, I was hoping to get ‘Protect your capital’ mission, which would reduce my war exhaustion after the war. Instead I get ‘Protect against TO’ again and it came along with the tidings of another powers’ Baltic ambitions.

Bohemia takes Slesvig. I get a ridiculous peace offer from Brunswick – they want all my money, that is 503d; oh really? Haven’t they noticed that big English army besieging Hanover? Gotland falls in December and I decide to seek peace. My terms are not too harsh I think. I don’t want to weaken Denmark too much. I was toying with an idea of force-releasing Holstein, but decided against it. I’m not a big HRE player to benefit from freeing opms and I’m afraid Denmark would sooner or later go after its Holsteinian core. That’s also why I didn’t reward Hamburg with Holstein. Bremen has no core on Oldenburg but it’s the same culture so hopefully they’ll hold on the prov long enough for it to core before the Emperor intervenes.

I had ordered 1k of mercenaries just to complete the mission, still hoping for ‘Protect your capital’. But instead my new mission is to get trade agreement with Bremen. The rewards are not tempting, so I’ll let it hang for now. Obviously, I disband the mercenaries at once.

In January England wins Clevian throne. Funny thing happened, English army, now trapped in Brunswick (no mil access), evaporated – did they disband the whole army? Now I see why AI needs help with managing the money. After a short deliberation I part with Gotland and sell it for a song: 2d! to Lűbeck. You can imagine how startled I was when I realised that the thing they started building straight away is a courthouse. So they had the money! Stingy Hanseats! Gotland is marginally richer and more populous than Ősel and it’s advantage is the lack of straight e.i. mainland connection. But now I don’t need another ultimately 0 tax, crappy resource (fish and traded through Stockholm at that), wrong-culture prov and as Ősel has already cored… Anyway out of five Hansa full members now one is a 3-prov minor (me!), two are 2-prov minors (Bremen and Lűbeck) and two are omp (Hamburg and Riga).

The fringes of my realm got restless because of the war. Absentee bishop - I don’t really care that much, though it’s for sure reformation-building event. There was a revolt in Connacht too but the English lent their helping hand. Do they feel being taken advantage of? As for Ősel I’m a bit surprised that the game sees this province as a colony. It only makes me more determined to pursue colonisation path in the future.

Luckily, things look brighter for Danzig. War over the piracy is brought under control again; which means tax income! For stability to reach +3 I had to wait till March 1502. Soon piracy in Danzig is tightly controlled. Are piracy levels connected to stability? Poland guarantees us again. Should I say ‘thank you’ or tremble? ‘Opposing military schools’ event pushes my slider to the defensive. The news from England suggests the English-Clevian union will be short-lived.

The time of peace makes me wonder what to spend money on. And I invest in defence, pbly inspired by the event. Stronghold on Ősel and Reinforced Walls (100d!) in Danzig. I figure even with tightly controlled piracy (lost by the end of the year) this 9-base-tax province isn’t making much money in taxes, so a bit less won’t make any difference. Bohemia grants my independence so I’m doubly protected by them.

Internationally:
1500
Aragon dowed Navarre
Austria – Serbia: Serbia pays 16d; Hungary is losing in this Austria-started war badly, even Montenegro managed to occupy a province!
1501
Burgundy inheritance; interestingly Bohemia receives cores on Antwerp and Vlaanderen. I don’t like what I see, when I look at English Calais.

1502
Valenciennes leaves the HRE
France annexes Orleans

1503
Denmark, Norway and Sweden embrace Secular Humanism, will reformation be limited to Scandinavia?
Aragon annexes Navarre
Castile receives it scripted exploration events:

 

[JDMS]

Nice work. You fought two successful wars and strenghthened two of your friends/allies.

 

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JDMS: the real test is coming

 

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1504-1510​

Frankly, not that much is happening. Actually, a few very quiet years. The university is completed. I build an early usciere and consider replacing other galleys with this more modern model, but drop this plan. My ‘lack of naval interest’ gets a bit worse: -1 to morale of navies. Anti-Hansa mutiny erupts in Kőln: so this is the event that weakens Hansa. Luckily, they soon come back to the League. In MMP the strength of Hansa is calculated by some complex mechanism which takes a lot of things into account, like: the number of Hansa City-States, Hansa towns in other countries, kontors, the number of merchants placed, European non-Hansa CoTs in the New World and a lot more. Only a few can be influenced by a player, which imo adds a lot to playing any of the Hansateans.

In December 1506 uncontrolled piracy hits Danzig again, it worsens to rampant in August next year; I seriously start aking myself if it makes sense to pay attention to tax income even from this prov. The spell of peace is well-received throughout the Empire and is good for my prestige. In January 1508 I notice Lűbeck is building university on Gotland; I can’t afford such expenditures. I also see one of my neighbours disappear – Poland absorbs TO. Am I the next?

I’m not going to save for a manu on Ősel. Instead I invest in harbour in Danzig, which earns me 0.61d in tax, hmm… My yearly income is much lower than in the best times of the previous consul. It’s around 50-60d, which is still a considerable amount of cash. All thanx to trade. The good thing is my merchants most often stay put, so there’s not too much investment in here, just dividends.

I finally decide to complete my mission. I’m not really pleased with the rewards. The new mission, nothing special too but I don’t mind allying Bremen, will require patience and spamming as Bremen says ‘very unlikely’ to alliance chances. I’m in no hurry here – the rewards again are not tempting.

I decide to be generous and benevolent for my people and, thak you aldriq for giving me food for thought, order very low taxes in Ősel. -20% to 0 tax won’t make any difference and -10 stab cost might come in handy. There are at times in this game a moments of bliss which stun me almost like disasters, especially when I can’t fully make the most of them. When ‘Free market utopia’ happened I decided to profit on +1 stab gain and changed sliders. I went more naval: I need more naval force limit and better TE is always nice; of course reforms got applauded: 2 stability points down the drain!

But when you grow too complacent….

Internationally the period is more active/interesting:
1504
Aragon annexes it’s vassal Brittany; at some point later Aragon exchanges Vandee with France for Roussillon; thank you Helius for this event!

New Emperor: Bohemia retains the title.
Ottomans (together with Georgia and Montenegero) bring Hungary to its knees. Rebels are going to plague Hungarian lands for some time from now on. One thing here, why would OE release Catholic Croatia? Especially as the alliance between the two will get broken as soon as OE goes offensive again. And you know OE won’t keep us waiting. I don’t know about HttT; maybe its Spheres of Influence fix it somehow. As it is releasing a country and than leaving it to its own devices is counter-effective. Anyway, this war isn’t over, Austria started it attacking Montenegro and is still, supported by the Pope, fighting.

1506
I’d say the Habsburgs got away with it.

I don’t know what’s wrong with AI but it’s a kind of pattern, their war exhaustion is pbly still crippling but a few days after one conflict they start another. Haven’t they had enough? Are they on the roll? In this case former allies become enemies.?! And naturally, Croatia abandoned OE, soon it allied Naxos instead?
Venice due to some event gives Romagna back to the Pope.
Golden Horde attacks weakened Georgia.
OE gets 5d from Naxos but is still at war with Milan (luckily for it, landlocked) and Georgia.
Denmark inherits Norway. It took four years before Hansa was welcomed back to Bergen.
1508
Castile, again the Pope Controller, ‘Declares the Compacta to be null and void’; it pbly has sth to do with the Hussite movement, will it strengthen the Reformation? So far only Scandinavians and the Swiss and maybe some German minors have chosen secular humanism.
1509-1510
Russia gets ‘CounterStrike!’ I wonder who they’re going to attack…and it’s Crimea.
Georgia rounds up its conflicts

Bavaria dowed Salzburg, they seem to have had a casus belli; hmm… theoretically Bohemia should spank them fast and hard but the Emperor has some problems in the Netherlands and, especially hard, in Luxembourg. I decided not to tag-intervene.

Meanwhile Austria said ‘No, this is not a good idea’ to ‘A Claim to the Crown?’ having been beaten by the Turks they feel they don’t deserve the Emperorship?
OE turns its attention to the south and attacks its ally the Mamluks. It also takes land from Serbia, I don’t remember why they were at war with it (Naxox?)

 

[JDMS]

Wow, that's an aggressive OE. I hope I don't get those events in my game. I'm not ready for it.
Great work.

 

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i think only AI OE gets some help like annexing anatolian vassals and also dowing the Mameluks;
i hear this is no longer true as of MMU though, and apparently OE regularly underperforms in this version of the mod;
i believe the OE player is left to his/her own devices, but i don't doubt in your skills