Prussia...again
Every so often I decide to play Prussia. Usually its with Teutonic Order and going eastward but I tried to focus more on the European mainland this time, starting as Brandenburg.
I know, there is no need to form Prussia as Brandeburg but I like the map colour and flag a lot better so I did trigger it after I already had all Prussian cores.
Spain is where it belongs, somewhere outside of the Andalusian and Catalonian lands
Portugal's capital is now on the glorious island of Tidore in Asia. If I wanted to, I can get Great Britain to move too but I am getting bored now. My troops are somewhat overpowered
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France has been my ally from pretty much the start. I know, I am bad... but why the heck not
I stopped them from blobbing more than they usually do in Europe and they helped me beat up Portugal and Spain on a regular basis. For that I fed them (SOME) overseas provinces that they or their CNs occupied in wars to keep them happy. And I usually have one diplomat fairly permanently stationed in Ile de France to keep the relationship as high as possible.
Our armies are about the same in size (450k troops).
I do own the cape and two Gold Coast provinces with the estuaries (taken from Spain in 2 wars).
My vassals are Scotland, Silesia, Hungary, Kiev, Poland, Georgia, Milan, Morocco, Hesse, Cologne, Navarra, Brabant, Syria and Polotsk
Scotland, Silesia, Hungary, Kiev, Milan, Polotsk, Syria and Morocco were all revived due to me taking one or two provinces in wars after they had disappeared. Georgia and Syria provinces were annexed during a recent war with Ottomans and released as vassals.
So as usual, I kept far too many vassals so I am desperately behind in diplo tech (western nations are at 29 / 30 whereas I am only at level 17. This of course hurts my boats as in combat they are quite useless but France helps me out as much as they can and interwarring between Portugal, Spain and England/GB meant they occasionally took care of each others navies.
Trade income is 155 ducats with only 2 merchants, more than enough to sustain my armies and navies and keep a +3 diplo advisor on hand to help with my poor management of diplo points (Merchants are stationed in Sevilla and Baltic Sea and I kept my main node Lübeck.
At one point there were no electors in the HRE and as Austria kept on demanding return of territories, I just quit the HRE alltogether. Suddenly there were 5 electors again including Bosnia. As Austria was allied to all of them, I decided once more to attack (one of the electors to avoid their allies Spain, Muscovy, Poland and Ottomans) to join and Bosnia unfortunately did not join in the fun. This was due to them being in a war with Ottomans right before i clicked the button to declare war (I forgot to check one more time). Luckily for me, Ottomans annexed Bosnia so now I occupied all the princes and was able to disband the HRE alltogether.
I managed to convert most of the provinces to Protestant so far and am at 120% tolerance without taking religious ideas.
.....I wonder if for once I should try to play a game where I force myself not to go over the diplo limit...
2nd highest income (434) after France (457). Ming is 3rd with 339