Forming the HRE/Imperial Authority.

[Zardnaar]

In my latest game I am going to try and form the HRE as it is somehting I have nit done before. I thought I would try it as Burgandy into France and I have been busy spreading influence, and vassaling electors and HRE members. I have got to 48 imperial authority but I am just going to bank it until I have over half the HRE as vassals and then go on a diplomacy spree.

Is there any way to milk imperial influence though? Once France is formed I am thinking of carvinh off various vassals for the +10 influence thing. Alot of that is cores though with universities so I do not want to go down that road itf I can avoid it thanks. Alos should I try to get as many of the reforms done before the reformation?

 

[BrotherM]

Well, I recently have managed to form HRe within 1 year. Just play as non-hre member, conquer as much as possible hre lands, vasalise electors and then start releasing countries, which belong to the HRE. Through this way you can easily harvest a lot of IA points. In the end, I would call it a exploit, but in my situation, I was rulling nearly over whole Europe, so it was just a formality.

Reformation isnt that bad for Emprah. It allows you to convert heretic members, which grants points as well. IMO focus on releasing HRE states from foreing powers.

 

[Ramidel]

If you're forming the HRE, then you should get any vassals you release back anyway.

 

[Zardnaar]

I ran out of IA and there was no more naitons to release, or convert. To get the last reform as it turned out each time I changed religion I got +10 IA. I took church attendence duty, the artist advisor and went catholic-protestant-reformed protestant-catholic to get the last 40-50 IA. Wow what a unification event.