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The secret here depends on a couple of things:
1.Granting an Electorate gives 10 IA.
2.Granting an Electorate can be done at war, as long as the relations are above -50 or so and not hostile or rival.
3.Demand Unlawful territory gives 10 IA
4.Countries accept Demand Unlawful territory if they are not coring that province.
5.A province that is outside your range cannot be cored.
6.Inland Countries have no range except for adjecent provinces (e.g. Brandenburg or Saxony).
7.One Province Minors (OPM's) can be annexed by your allies if you transfer occupation.
8.If you transfer occupation and force your allies to take provinces, they have to pay the diplo-cost and eat the Aggressive Expansion.
9.There are are an awful lot of OPM's in the HRE.
So here is what you do.
Get a diplo-rep advisor. These are useful to get other people to join your wars and to ram reforms through.
Get Diplomatic as your first idea group. Try to get to the diplo-rep idea. This also gives Austria's first national idea +10% IA which saves a bit of time.
Ally Brandenburg, Saxony and Bohemia. (I got Bohemia in a PU under me so couldn't use him, but he should work just fine. Getting Bohemia in a PU actually hurts now since you get a -0.10 penalty to IA every month if an elector is a subject nation).
Ally Poland for fun and profit and to support your heir for those sweet extra monarch points.
Fight Burgundy when they get attacked by France. Force the inheritance by keeping the war going until it fires. It is best to declare yourself, if you are helping an HRE-member defend, you won't become warleader and thus can't decide when the war ends (you know, after the inheritance).
Fabricate claims on Cologne.
Declare on Cologne and annex them.
Fabricate claim on Koblenz.
Release Cologne as a vassal, this no longer gives IA, but who needs the overextension.
Get in a war with an ally of Mainz. Call in your allies of Bohemia, Brandenburg and Saxony. One of these three is enough.
If you fully siege all participants in a war you get 100% warscore with all of them. Pick one of Mainz's OPM allies and grant them an electorate. This gives 10 IA. Transfer occupation to one of your elector allies and sue for peace with the OPM. Give the province to one of your allies, but make sure there is no connection to their lands, or else they'll start coring their new conquest. You now get the electorate back.
Rinse and repeat with all Mainz's other OPM allies, netting 10 IA each time. If no OPM allies remain, continue on with large allies, but don't grant them electorates, since you can't feed them completely to your allies.
After that, do the same thing to Mainz. Peace out the warleader, feeding as much of him to you allies as possible.
After the war, grant electorates to OPM's that border you and you can fabricate claims on.
Talk to your allies and Demand unlawful territory back. Each province you claim back gives 10 IA.
Each time you hit 50 IA you should be able to pass the next reform.
Two or three of these wars should be enough to get the Privilegia Revoked.
Enjoy your vassal swarm. Now go beat up France, the Ottomans, and everyone else you want.
EDIT: Don't annex Cologne, just declare on an ally of Mainz and go crazy with forcefeeding your alles.
The secret here depends on a couple of things:
1.Granting an Electorate gives 10 IA.
2.Granting an Electorate can be done at war, as long as the relations are above -50 or so and not hostile or rival.
3.Demand Unlawful territory gives 10 IA
4.Countries accept Demand Unlawful territory if they are not coring that province.
5.A province that is outside your range cannot be cored.
6.Inland Countries have no range except for adjecent provinces (e.g. Brandenburg or Saxony).
7.One Province Minors (OPM's) can be annexed by your allies if you transfer occupation.
8.If you transfer occupation and force your allies to take provinces, they have to pay the diplo-cost and eat the Aggressive Expansion.
9.There are are an awful lot of OPM's in the HRE.
So here is what you do.
Get a diplo-rep advisor. These are useful to get other people to join your wars and to ram reforms through.
Get Diplomatic as your first idea group. Try to get to the diplo-rep idea. This also gives Austria's first national idea +10% IA which saves a bit of time.
Ally Brandenburg, Saxony and Bohemia. (I got Bohemia in a PU under me so couldn't use him, but he should work just fine. Getting Bohemia in a PU actually hurts now since you get a -0.10 penalty to IA every month if an elector is a subject nation).
Ally Poland for fun and profit and to support your heir for those sweet extra monarch points.
Fight Burgundy when they get attacked by France. Force the inheritance by keeping the war going until it fires. It is best to declare yourself, if you are helping an HRE-member defend, you won't become warleader and thus can't decide when the war ends (you know, after the inheritance).
Fabricate claims on Cologne.
Declare on Cologne and annex them.
Fabricate claim on Koblenz.
Release Cologne as a vassal, this no longer gives IA, but who needs the overextension.
Get in a war with an ally of Mainz. Call in your allies of Bohemia, Brandenburg and Saxony. One of these three is enough.
If you fully siege all participants in a war you get 100% warscore with all of them. Pick one of Mainz's OPM allies and grant them an electorate. This gives 10 IA. Transfer occupation to one of your elector allies and sue for peace with the OPM. Give the province to one of your allies, but make sure there is no connection to their lands, or else they'll start coring their new conquest. You now get the electorate back.
Rinse and repeat with all Mainz's other OPM allies, netting 10 IA each time. If no OPM allies remain, continue on with large allies, but don't grant them electorates, since you can't feed them completely to your allies.
After that, do the same thing to Mainz. Peace out the warleader, feeding as much of him to you allies as possible.
After the war, grant electorates to OPM's that border you and you can fabricate claims on.
Talk to your allies and Demand unlawful territory back. Each province you claim back gives 10 IA.
Each time you hit 50 IA you should be able to pass the next reform.
Two or three of these wars should be enough to get the Privilegia Revoked.
Enjoy your vassal swarm. Now go beat up France, the Ottomans, and everyone else you want.
EDIT: Don't annex Cologne, just declare on an ally of Mainz and go crazy with forcefeeding your alles.
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