How can I become HRE in this situation ?

[Lord Finnish]

I have this small problem.

I am playing as germany (i edided the name of Branderburg to Germany, and took flags Great War mod. I set all german states to my national provinces, and i conquered all those states)
Ok here is the problem. Austria is my puppet, i have rammed all other countries from HRE, so only ones there are me and Austria. But still, always when new emperor is elected, always he comes from Austria. Dangit. I got no clue what bonuses Emperor brings, but it would look more beautiful if i was elected once.

 

[unmerged(13581)]

Not sure here, but you say you changed Brandenburg to Germany so maybe you changed the country tag as well? If you did so you won't have any votes for the election and that way Austria beeing the only elector left will always be voted Emperor.

 

[unmerged(18712)]

As far as I know Austria has a little bonus in the elections, so she will be the one elected all the time in this situation.

 

[Lord Finnish]

Not sure here, but you say you changed Brandenburg to Germany so maybe you changed the country tag as well?

changing Tags in Vanilla is impossible. Or i'm just dumb enough. But i think Tag doesn't matter. Normal branderburg is electorate in HRE, so there should be no problems what flag or name it has.

If you did so you won't have any votes for the election and that way Austria beeing the only elector left will always be voted Emperor.

I never thoughth that, the 1 vote part. But i'm not volunteered to release any german states. Once i did release mainz (or soemthing) by a joke then many states tried to rebel independence.

 

[unmerged(13581)]

As far as I know there is a .txt file with all the electors and the number of votes they have, so changing the tag would result in them not beeing counted as elector. Hungarian Lord's point might be valid as well, maybe Austria has more votes than you have so they'll always get elected as well.

Anyways if you want to unify Germany I'd advice to play the AGCEEP as it has some really nice and at least somewhat plausible unification events

 

[unmerged(16181)]

Are you playing with 1.09? 1.09 reduced the Habsburgs' bonus in elections. But if you aren't, you won't be able to upgrade without saving your game.

I think the problem might be the fact that you conquered the German states instead of diploannexing them. Don't electors still vote after their states are gone? If you conquered them, then you would have low relations with them, and they would be constantly voting against you.

 

[George LeS]

1. In the religion map, hover the pointer over your capital. The window will pop up, & tell you if you're an elector. If not, you obviously won't get elected, as Austria now has the only vote.

2. Even if you are, you'll still lose. With only 2 electors, that means your relations with AUS = their relations with you. Therefore, their bonus should always put them in 1st.

Your only options are to annex them, or to release someone, & hope that Austria ticks them off. If the latter happens, you'll have better relations.

 

[Lord Finnish]

Well, i have now liberted a couple of Italian electors so they suppose to elect me

I'm a elector and electorate. And i'm now downloading 1.9 and after that i get myself a AGC. And probably EEP

 

[unmerged(40707)]

Or simply AGCEEP... AGCEEP is the merger of AGC and EEP and only for EU2 1.09.

 

[George LeS]

Well, i have now liberted a couple of Italian electors so they suppose to elect me

I'm a elector and electorate. And i'm now downloading 1.9 and after that i get myself a AGC. And probably EEP

I don't think any of the Italian states are electors. Remember, being part of the HRE isn't equivalent to being an elector, either way (there are non-elector members &, in some versions, non-member electors). My advice would be that you load the 1419 start, & check to see who's who, then decide accordingly. You'd have to release an elector for the gambit to work. The key is that you need at least one tie-breaker, if your' to have a chance to beat them. But then, you'll need to keep relations better than Austria's.

Or just go the easy way, & annex Austria.