Доживяхме!Finally, Bulgarian NI's !!
I don't think Prussia stopped being "Prussian" when it became the German Empire. They likely identified themselves as Germans onwards but they were still very Prussian in nature. Furthermore, when you get a large number of nations that're able to form a particular union (for example Germany), how do you decide whose idea set to use as that particular union's ideas? What about the HRE? That's a Germanic union that can be formed by any Catholic nation in the game.
I would, for the sake of counterargument, present the case of Novgorod keeping its national ideas when it forms Russia (which I would actually prefer it did not do...)
I like TO ideas, but have one suggestion for them.
In one of the early NIs TO should get some bonuses to papal influence and/or diplomatic reputation.
Reasoning:
Teutonic Order State was in the late middle ages the only state to have a permanent 'ambassador' in Vatican, they also used both protection of Pope and HR Emperor to receive more volunteers on Prussian 'crusades'. In fact, even over 30 years after the Union of Krewo (Lithuania converting to Catholic in 1386) they still portrayed Lithuanians as barbarian pagans and were successfull in their propaganda.
During the Thirteen Years War (1454-1466) between Poland and TO, they received big support from Pope, even though the direct reason of war was that citizens of Gdansk (Danzig) and other cities of TO State rebelled against the Teutonic high taxes and seeked protection from Polish king.
For a while I can't refer to any proper historical sources on this topic, may search some within the next few days if needed.
Are the Teutonic Order ideas really that good? They don't seem AS good as Prussian and Swedish Ideas, but then again those two are routinely considered the best in the game.
It's nice to see some teutonic buffs though, Poland, Lithuania and Denmark are terrible pains to deal.
Finally, TO won't be crushed by PLC/Sweden in the first 100 years! I love those ideas!
Didn't know bout that, thanks for referenceProbably this.