Please fix the League wars...

[Gachr]

Hello.
They are very bugged and stupid in many ways. There is just a pointless war that takes really long time. It's not just HRE, it involves the whole of Europe, and the League choices are stupid - for example Catholic France was fighting for the Protestant league in one of my games. I'm writing this post after I needed to fight against my vassal in a League war, they got sieged by me (I wanted them out of the war) and the war leader decided to give most of their provinces to one of my rivals...

 

[A Swell Guy]

Catholic France fighting on the side of the Protestants!? Why that's unheard of!

 

[IIWW]

Well, I'd be surprised if France was fighting on Catholic side.

 

[masterpaul666]

in my game, novgorod(beat muscovy) joined the catholic side, and the ottomans joined the catholic side as well. I'm kinda unsure how that's suposed to go.

 

[.Raistlin.]

It's about the balance of power. For the same reason France didn't help Austria/the Commonwealth around the 1683 siege of Vienna: the Sun King wanted his rival in the Habsburgs taken down a notch.

Unfortunately the religious league war in my Commonwealth game was ridiculously unbalanced, with Russia and Castile/PU'd Aragon joining the Catholics and France being the sole Protestant power despite being Catholic. I wasn't on either side but I ended up being called to fight for the Catholics, which I accepted, because I'm sandwiched between Russia and Austria-Hungary.

 

[PanH]

The only thing that doesn't really work with the leagues is that it's happening a bit early (always had it early 16th for me).
Otherwise, France DID fight with the protestant league (and Ottomans gave support and troops), so maybe you should learn a bit about history before saying it's nonsensical. It was much more interesting to weaken the emperor than to want the emperor to be catholic (which has no advantage for France).

 

[mozgriken]

The historical 30 yrs war had both Ottoman and France involvement on the protestant side, iirc. Muscovy and Ottomans were 2 of the first to join in my last game. To be expected.