Well that is the opposite of what the Church needed. The silver lining should be that these Iberian-backed factions will lose a ton of respect for that blunder. Nobody will be clamoring for a Julius III.
will never stop trying though...I doubt you can clean the blue taint from the map...
worse is yet to come...What a contentious Papacy!
now as you pointed it out, none of the historical European powers is as strong or consolidated as they were at that time in our timeframe; this gives the Papal States more room to act as a respectable medium poweroverall it looks Europe is becoming even more and more fragmented on various lines driven by a still live France, religion and run of the mill rebellion.
the danger seems very real indeedAny danger the Eastern bits of the Papal States will push the New Rome line and argue to leave Europe to barbarism and concentrate on the civilised east?
but where will the thunder strike?Also, the lack of problems in the East looks like a silence before a storm to me...
I needed someone to make up for the (non-present) BorgiasI rather think Julius succeeded in his quest to attain fame. Or rather, infamy!
these two suggestions somehow contradict each other; next update will reveal how I went about ityou should start to fragmentate France now that you are in a war. And bring France to the one true faith, for He is the only rightful one.
I don't think I can do anything in this matter (can anybody enlighten me here?), and the Emperor seems to be rather tolerantare you thinking in supporting the catholic cause in Bohemian controlled territory the Low Lands and Northern Germany? Those Protestants couls be "wiped out of the map in 30 to 40 years time.
surprisingly no; I checked and Spain has only 3% inflation (it's gone bankrupt only once so far); you might be right about the costs of army, navy AND building multiple colonies, but I'm not sureThe Spanish bankruptcies are probably a little to do with inflation
no, not really; but anyway La Ana won't let goPerhaps La Ana can be persuaded to respect the church's traditional right to administer ecclesiastical jurisprudence. It would be a shame for the rash actions of the sovereign to result in ordinary Spaniards suffering the displeasure of the Holy Father and the See of Rome. If you know what I'm sayin'.
Spain is by no means weak (although I'm surprised it didn't manage to deal with the rebellious Sicily), it is of course weaker than irl but its colonial empire is growing; the issue Spain suffers from is not inflation but low stabilityHere I was hoping that Spain would become the Uber Mecha Godzilla and stomp all over the Holy Protestant Empire—and instead it goes broke. Are you tempted to prop them up with user savegame meddling? Maybe an inflation reduction?
well, he did attack France, and the cheeky Marguerite clings to her faith secretly (there's no way in the game to roleplay such negotiations); but you're right in the end Karel will take what's his and forget about la Belle. You know, 'It was just one of those things'The emperor made a poor friendless French girl part with the faith of her fathers, all for a small and probably useless detachment of troops? Karel, you cad. I know she's a former heretic and all, but you should smite him. Repeatedly.
exactly, but can the Curia afford to snub Spain?The silver lining should be that these Iberian-backed factions will lose a ton of respect for that blunder. Nobody will be clamoring for a Julius III.
well, yes, in a manner of speaking...From your feedback it sounds like things get worse before they get better.
Have I?an essentially decent pope trying to find a sensible course amidst a lot of madness ..., at least you seem to have removed some of the previous Spanish influence
Thank you. As for popes and trying to make them look different, I seem to be running out of ideas.I appreciate the different personalities you give to your Popes
They deserve some spanking, don't they? Those heretics!Nice work with France - Hungary next?
Heretics, and in smallish stacks of 2-5k. So Bohemia will deal with this in no time. Admittedly, a few provs will fall (the rebels spawned in former Brandenburg provs too and there was no Bohemian army there at the time) but nothing will come out of it. Anyway, there's 'religious autonomy' modifier in all wrong-religion provs of Bohemia, so the Emperor has reached some status quo with the more moderate heretics.Wow the Protestant rebellion of Lowlands is quite large! What type were the rebels? Heretics?
Won't Spain itself be enough to worry? It seems the voting was more whether to depose the pope or not. (Dei Gratia is a bit cryptic or when you don't focus on religion while you're playing, you don't pay attention to these events.) Only Utrecht wanted Hadrianus VII to go.The Schism events were quite interesting...but was there anyone who voted for Spain?
It didn't. I mean Navarre has been Spanish for some time and is turned back Catholic (remember the Spanish Inquisition )And finally, how did the Gascogne/Navarre war end?
This is what I worry about, so I'm not intending to grab more land, not too much anyway.Uh oh! You might end up getting these synod things every other week, given the amount of territory you hold.
You really put it clearly for me. 1) I think the faudal fragmentation of France should be the thing of the past at this point (or at least it should be portrayed differently than just creating new states, more like vassal system of CK) 2) What would Europe be without the not-so-big bad blue blob? So Hadrianus VII, the middle-ground pope, simply intervened and placated the Emperor's wrath.Wow, France took a serious beating. From the HRE perspective, even when they were co-religionists the King of France and the Emperor were strident competitors. Taking apart France and securing the Empire's western border would probably have been the goal of a real-life Emperor, if any had had the power to do so! But for an EU3 player losing such a heavyweight kind of destroys the drama of the game, so I understand why you prevented it.
As I wrote answering Athalcor: the MM-typically unlucky Dutch or the lack of them.Those rebels in the Low Countries—they are heretics, not nationalists? Too bad for the Dutch.
As for popes and trying to make them look different, I seem to be running out of ideas.
and I get war subsidies from… Hungary; hmm… I know they’re Protestant, I guess Hungarian AI wants to thank me for PU-edit-freeing it from Austrian yoke)
You could have a pope who's secretly a Protestant.
That's a thought!Well, there wasn't any mad pope yet, wasn't there?
Didn't he feel like a secret Protestant? Or an irenist at least?You could have a pope who's secretly a Protestant. I liked Hadrianus, but as you pointed out he might have been just a little too tolerant for the times.
More to come.Very action packed reign
Don't they? So it's not only me who gets this impression.Popes in this AAR always seem to bow out at intriguing moments.
Oh, how I wish I could! But as you pointed it out: nothing i can do. (Unless there's something I don't know. Can anyone enlighten me?)All you need to do is make sure France gets all Catholic all over again, even though there is nothing you can do about it.
I'd been planning to 'redistribute' territory since the 'liberation' of Cyprus. What Trebizond holds it owes to my generosity. Also, neither Trebizond nor KosJ are my allies. So I'm in two minds about it. I wanted to sell at least Karaman (haven't build a single building there), but as the coring process took up speed, I hesitate. Remember also I haven't grabbed a single province in the West.there should be a reorganization of the Anatolian territory, like less for you, more for your allies.
a Pope you say?A rare couple of updates totally focused on the west... Might the balance move back east with a new Pope favoured by the Orphans?
How implausible!Or a woman