I really doubt this is a bug, but I can't seem to figure out how to declare the german empire. I get the events for Holstein, the Austro-Prussian war, the Franco-Prussian war (France actually picked the be the laughing stock of europe option one time), and I snag my all of the cb shields as soon as they are available (including the ones on Poland, which can be a pain to get from russia). A north german conferderation event comes up, but the only option for it is "do not." Which does nothing. Am I doing something wrong?
In my game nearly all of Ottomans' provinces defected to Persia, so that in the end Thrace borderd Persia.
Italy seems to fail to form, as Piedmont-Sardinia either gets swallowed by France or Austira, but I suppose it's a dog eat dog world....... It is kind of funny though when a bunch of British Indian provinces defect to the Mughuls....... So much for British colonial power....
Excellent work with the american civil war though, I haven't seen the CSA survive yet.