I need an advice how can I legally declare war on the Ottomans

[corgi911]

without any penalty!
Background Austria, the emperor of HRE, is weak. The Ottomans has already conquered all costal provinces of Venice and more . They are really very strong as many has complain here. I am, naturally as always, Prussia which is even quite strong. Prussia has already liberate Hungary. So now I would like to know how I can throw out the Ottomans from the Balkans, see above.
But because I have no province neighbouring to them I dont know how to manage a "correct"(indeed stupid) war against them. Any clever advice is welcome.

 

[ecrurudesby]

Vassalise/release a country that has a core on them. Or do it "illegally" with no CB.

What year is it? Are you close to the Imperialism CB?

 

[Canute VII]

If you feel strong enough: rival, declare with CB "humiliate rival", occupy all their provinces, withdraw your army, wait for rebels to spawn and rip them apart, watch and enjoy.

ps: "humiliate rival" doesn't need any bordering provinces.

 

[corgi911]

What year is it? Are you close to the Imperialism CB?

IÎ give you some screenshots, I must change the language before, so here we are: as you can see my fleet is still not in the best condition because of upgrading but I dont know if I need for the battle, normally yes but the upgrading needs enormous time. As you can see in the diplomatic window I could go on Zagreb would it be wise? So now what are your advices and btw here is the imperial screenshot: Yes soon or later I will become the emperor. But the actual one is very young, so I have to wait

 

[Bouchart]

Try warning them.

 

[corgi911]

Try warning them

and then, what happens?

 

[Bouchart]

and then, what happens?

If they attack a nation that borders you, you'll be called into the war.

 

[corgi911]

If they attack a nation that borders you, you'll be called into the war

I will try that trick thank you! hope it works!

 

[corgi911]

Try warning them.

Not possible because thy are too rich and now

 

[corgi911]

meanwhile I am the emperor what did that change for my goal in Balkan and btw could anyone explain me how to create a new prince, yes my imperial authority is rather low 0,41 what can I do to raise it

 

[corgi911]

Okay I gave Habsburg the title of a Kurfürst/prince hope they will be loyal, but the balkanes battle is just ahead need only a little bit more of mercenaries and fleet upgraded

 

[tirroj]

btw could anyone explain me how to create a new prince, yes my imperial authority is rather low 0,41 what can I do to raise it

There are a few things you can do:
1) Make sure that there are enough electors. If there arent enough, it will cost you Imperial Autority (IA)
2) Make sure that there are enough free city's. They give additional IA. Although i;m not sure if you lose some when you got less than the max
3) If there is any HRE land not in hands of a HRE prince, than it will cost you IA. You do have the first reform, so as the emperor you should have a CB on any country that got HRE land while isnt a prince of the HRE
4) Create princes by releasing HRE land. That can be achieved in peace treathy's or by releasing land you already grabbed. The capital of the released nation has to be in the HRE, otherwise it wont count as a prince. Unfortionatly, you got a load of HRE land, so right now you can probably only create HRE princes by releasing your own land.
5) You can add land to the HRE when it doesnt belong to it, and when you have it cored and controlled. Every province will give you 1 IA. Only do this, when your IA gain is positive, otherwise it will be wasted.

I hope that this will help a bit, altough you are kinda late in starting with the reforms.

 

[corgi911]

I hope that this will help a bit, altough you are kinda late in starting with the reforms.

Nice and good advices thanks and will tell you about my balkanese adventure till later

 

[Brynjar]

If I was in that situation, and really wanted to justify war against the ottomans, I would do a no cb war against one of the Orthodox countries by the black sea. Noone important in the game cares about the Orthodox. If it's Genoa holding Azov as their only province they should be an ok no cb target as well, but wouldn't allow you to fabricate on the Ottomans directly. No cb vs the Mamluks would work as well, but that would give a lot more AE with the Ottomans.

 

[corgi911]

If I was in that situation, and really wanted to justify war against the ottomans, I would do a no cb war against one of the Orthodox countries by the black sea. Noone important in the game cares about the Orthodox. If it's Genoa holding Azov as their only province they should be an ok no cb target as well, but wouldn't allow you to fabricate on the Ottomans directly. No cb vs the Mamluks would work as well, but that would give a lot more AE with the Ottoman

Interesting new aspect I will prouve it, thanks again for new informationthis game has always many amazing aspects

 

[corgi911]

If it's Genoa holding Azov as their only province

I prouved it Genoa and Azova didnt excist any more in my game

 

[Ironside121]

It's not a stupid war if you're using cheats OP.

Just give yourself a CB using the console command since you clearly have no qualms with using them

 

[ecrurudesby]

Ahh yes I didn't see the manpower......

 

[SaucyBaron]

Who needs to ask for help in a game where they've already given themselves infinite manpower with the console...

 

[Vulkandrache]

Because noone ever plays with cheats at the start.
After my initial games i modded the game to be quite heavily in my favor.
It doenst make you good at managing ressources but it can help immensly with understanding the mechanics.
Thats far more important, the rest can come later.