Attacking the HRE for a non-HRE province- emperor should go away

[anomanderus]

I notice that the only way to join the HRE is if a province neighboring you is part of it

Yet the emperor will still defend members of the HRE if they are attacked for a province which is not part of the HRE

I feel like one of these things should be changed

 

[Draecesstra]

Genoa will thank you

 

[VampireBoot]

Yeah, having Austria defend Genoa against Crimea every game because of its Black Sea colonies is just silly.

 

[ChildeR]

Since you can take a HRE province even in a war that is nominally "for" a non-HRE province, that would just be an easy way to bypass the emperor's protection.

 

[Vieras]

Maybe there should be separate war goal for non-HRE provinces.

 

[deezee]

I mean if this were Victoria 2, they could make it so that if you add a wargoal that was for an HRE province, the emperor gets called in. I'm not sure how this could be implemented in EU4 (I'd never thought I'd see an advantage to the Victoria 2 approach to wargoals, but there you go).

 

[ThaBus]

Maybe make it so that the non-HRE province owned by a HRE prince needs to border a HRE one (land or sea) to call in the emperor. Emperor no longer gets called in for weird distant wars but the homelands of HRE princes still get protected.