Religious leagues - how do they work?

[stilgarpl]

I read the dev diary about leagues, but I don't know how to use them in game.
I'm playing as Protestant Prussia, Austria is the HREmperor. For now, I am allied to them. Evangelical League event happened and I know I am supposed to declare war on Austria.

But... is there any indication in the game which countries are in the league (I'd like to know if France joined my side or not) or how much time I have left before Catholic Emperor becomes permanent. It's Ironman game, so I don't want to break that alliance before I have to.

 

[stilgarpl]

Oh, now I see it - it's on the HRE window.

 

[stilgarpl]

And it seems that France joined on Catholic side... great... at least I have the Ottomans.

But where is that timer? How much time do I have?

EDIT: And now Ottomans left my side and Russia joined Catholic side...

 

[Rinso]

I am playing Austria now. It's 1550 year or so. There are a lot of protestant and catholic states in my empire (including some of electors). But there are no religious leagues at all and it is unknown how they can form. And I cannot enforce rel.unity because "this religions are not accepted in the empire". This system need more explanation.

 

[stilgarpl]

I am playing Austria now. It's 1550 year or so. There are a lot of protestant and catholic states in my empire (including some of electors). But there are no religious leagues at all and it is unknown how they can form. And I cannot enforce rel.unity because "this religions are not accepted in the empire". This system need more explanation.

It's an event chain. First you get Protestantism, then you get Reformation. After a while, Pope will invite you to the Council of Trent. Few years later, Counter-Reformation will begin and few years after that Leagues will appear.

 

[Illianor123]

I'm sitting in my game as Prussia waiting for the leagues to fire so I can crush Austria and become Emperor. Having a PU over Bohemia and Muscovy should help. Burgundy also survived and controls half of France.

 

[Rinso]

It's an event chain. First you get Protestantism, then you get Reformation. After a while, Pope will invite you to the Council of Trent. Few years later, Counter-Reformation will begin and few years after that Leagues will appear.

Protestants, Reformation, embraced the Counter-Reformation - I had all of this for at least 20 years already. Empire is non-stop converting, I've even reconverted one of the centers of reformation but still no leagues and my game is ruining now. Its a bug or something similiar I think.

 

[stilgarpl]

I'm sitting in my game as Prussia waiting for the leagues to fire so I can crush Austria and become Emperor. Having a PU over Bohemia and Muscovy should help. Burgundy also survived and controls half of France.

I managed to convince Ottomans to come back to my league after they left, but I can't make France and Russia leave catholic side.

But... this happened:

 

[stilgarpl]

Does anyone knows the answer? How long can I wait before I DOW the HREmperor? I don't know if I should build up before the war or just DOW and hope for the best.

 

[stilgarpl]

In case anyone is wondering - the end of leagues happened to me in 1616 - there were no wars, because my Prussia didn't have enough manpower to beat France, England, Austria and Russia.

 

[illathid]

There has to be a protestant elector to enable the religious leagues. No protestant elector means no 30 years war.

 

[hush]

I'm gonna add onto this post since I'm not sure if what I'm seeing is a bug or working as intended, but I am a reformed Prussia and joined the protestant side, there was finally a war where I got to zap most of Europe, which basically instantly put it into protestant control.

I know this was expected, but I thought there needed to be a second war (in which the protestant league wins again) to make it permanent? Or is it the 1616 timer mentioned above?

Regardless, I moved beyond that point and decided to dismantle the HRE, but it's hereditary already? Only two reforms have been passed so that seems weird to me, but I can't dismantle it at all. Is this working as intended?