What are you afraid of? You are friggin Prussia that should kill everyone. Besides that you have France and Russia on your side, so it shouldnt even be a challenge.
Is sunny Ottomans supposed to help the emperor in league wars? Then what to do?
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If it was that way the Protestant side would be doomed to lose... I have yet to see a game where Protestants in Europe aren't crushed even now(though emperor still white peaces usually), with only the Ottomans doing some stuff and trying not to lose the war.
It's right they didn't care about the Protestants but the Ottoman attacks on Austria HUGELY impacted the TYW because it weakened the emperor a lot. I think this can be regarded as directly fighting for the Protestant league.
I've seen the Protestants win in games where I was the Ottomans... and was completely ignoring the Germans because conquering Germany is very inefficient with regard to province count.
From a historical perspective definitely not - the situation was more similar to no Ottoman interference at all than to full scale invasion of Austria by all Ottoman armies. Ottoman forces were tied up on other fronts during almost the entire duration of the Thirty Years' War, with the Safavids under Shah Abbas having launched devastating campaigns against the Ottoman eastern provinces in the years leading up to 1618. By 1620, there was war with Poland and then the murder of Osman II, sending the empire into crisis with the revolt of Abaza Mehmed Pasha, then then the resumption of the Persian wars in 1624. This lasted until 1639, and the few years of peace before the outbreak of war with Venice in 1645 were occupied with Cossack attacks and rebellion in Anatolia.
Really - the Ottomans did not intervene in the Thirty Years' War. Transylvania did in their capacity to act independently of Ottoman influence. Whether or not it's good for gameplay is another matter entirely, of course.
Could you not argue that the Ottomans might have been keener on assisting the Protestant League and doing over Austria more thoroughly had they not, as you say, spent almost the entire period 1618-1648 involved in other major internal and external conflicts?
Or to put it more simply, was direct Ottoman involvement in the Thirty Years' War merely something that did not happen, or something that could not have happened even had there been no other major wars/internal conflicts distracting them?
Full scale invasions are themselves a gameplay abstraction, as real life didn't have a warscore mechanic. In the game however, the Ottomans can still be tied up on other fronts if the situation calls for it, as with what happened in real life. No way to simulate assassinations though, although young kings can die and I suppose you can consider those assassinations.
The Ottomans weren't deeply connected enough into European diplomatic networks (particularly Northern European Protestant ones) to ever be roped into any kind of formal alliance, even if they would have desired such a thing. There'd have been nothing preventing opportunistic intervention though, perhaps at the behest of some prince.
However that's not the point I was trying to make. In every thread on this topic someone brings up the "historical" argument that the Ottomans intervened in the Thirty Years' War in reality, but that's just not true.