Lot of events here:
1511:
What is a dream if it doesn't come true? It happens very often, but apparently Hans wants to prove the opposite, as he tries to take the first step towards being a Scandinavian ruler. Stockholm greeted a Danish ambassador, who handed in the declaration of war. The people thought that there was no reason for the war-maybe they're right...
We take the -2 stabhit for CB lack and -1 for both being Catholics... seriously, WHO THE CRAP CARES? We order the Danish armies to lay siege to Smäland and Västergotland, while 1000 cavalry rides to Lappland. (Shortest war EVAR) Timeline:
1511 Jan: Sieges started. We're behind by one tech, and Hemming G. comes to teach us a lesson.
1511 April: Apparently the Swedish leader is real good, he lifts the Smäland siege. Then Sweden decides to offer us Lappland. We accept. Now you wonder why I took an useless colony: the reasons are here.
1) I just realised that a 40k army led by a capable Swedish general would just about ruin the war, and we couldn't win it if we tried. We just had luck.
2) I lost too few lifes to make it worthless.
3) Lappland is not useless, it has 500 peaceful natives to incorporate, and it produces Metal, which could be useful later for weapon manufactories. When I'll turn Protestant... Sweden beware!
1513:
The King is dead! Long Live the King! Though he didn't, he just partied so much, he got drunk and fell on a knife. And died. Because of this the Danish Royal Council took the lead while the new king is still growing up.
I dunno with you, but two times-once before the CTD and once after-I got the king and it died a few days later, ingame days I mean. whatever.
1516-17:
Big news, a man called Martin Luther visited the country. He started talking about a new religion-the council dismissed it as a heresy, until Luther pointed out how corrupt Catholicism already is because of the powerhungry Pope, and his stupid religional ways. This caused heavy debates, but just about everyone started to believe in this new faith. The Council decided to do something good for the people and declared that the new state religion will be Protestantism. Catholicism is still to be tolerated though. The internal structure of Denmark was very unstable right now, but what the Council feared didn't come: there were no rebellions.
So we converted to Protestantism. Holstein broke vassalage... who cares? I have another plan for... you will see. (Or maybe you know already?) Sadly Bülow, the explorer didn't get to know this news: he died just as he started another voyage to uncover new shores. He was buried on the shores of his latest discovery, the place that's not yet discovered, but is rumored to be called something like... Isle Royale? The Danish king heard some rumors about the isle, where a strange "bug" lives that infects the "population"... hm.
1519:
We got another Swedish war. We dismissed it by taking the capital and extracting 250 money. Lappland became a city, now we plan to expand our colony in Newfoundland, then new lands await!
1520-1529:
Boooooooring...
1530:
The first stage of the plan in action! A declaration is handed in to the Polish king, and his allies Sweden, England and Holstein. Sweden and Holstein talk themselves out though... and England too, since in a clever move, the English were bribed beforehand.
(Not actually, but we paid them off quick.) Russia and Ryazan both come to war on our side. A 30000 army is shipped to Danzig, under the command of a Johan Rantzau.
Timeline:
1530: Danzig is sieged.
1531 March-October: A successful period for the Russians. Meanwhile Danzig is taken and a Danish garrison comes into Danzig to guard the fort. The army advances into Mazovia, to besiege the capital.
'31 November: A Polish army comes to retake Danzig by storm, and then marches away. Is this an insult, to neglect us? Whatever. We capture the capital and move back to get Danzig once more.
'32-'34 November: We get Danzig, then the circle gets replayed once again. Russia takes two provinces to peace and to under his control. We are now alone (Ryazan barely fought anything).
'34 December: We decide to try a new solution, and storm Danzig. We barely made progress in the siege, but luck is on our side and we take Danzig. And the Poles are still sieging their capital! The peace treaties give us command of the port. Victory!
1536:
What happened to Holstein? Well, they got isolated after betraying the Polish. They ran in fear from the Danes, but they got them. Though, this time, diplomatically. Holstein was put into the Danish web, along with Russia, Ryazan and Prussia (I forgot to mention it, they were in the war too)... and they are vassalised in this year.
Do you know my plan already? No? Well, of course I plan to take as much of Germany as possible! If Holstein wasn't allied to the scum, I hadn't declared war on Poland at all! But now I can take Pommerania and Holstein at the same time (Though Pommerania must first get out of the Hansa coalition, lasting until '42.). We must also have gotten Christian III sometime. I dunno what "Grevefejden" is, but he must be similar to those crappy russian monarchs, he does the exact some things. (I dunno why, but they stopped eventually though.)
Guys! Won't you just love a screenie? Well, here you are! On the left you see the stats of our colony, Nye Skäne, which we almost forgot about. Scotland started taking England, Austria absorbed Bohemia, Turkey recovered a bit, Russia and Denmark grew, etc. (Yeah, it was taken in 1535, but there were no map changes since)