The Hate is real

[bradles0]

The perfect solution here is to switch to protestant, join the protestant league, and spank bavaria into a new hellhole, and get elected protestant emperor. Unfortunately i'm not allowed to declare war on Bavaria, because Landfriede.

I can't swap before the war because then the war can't start.
Can't swap during the war
I don't want to throw the war and then get re-elected after the first protestant emperor dies.

I already tried swapping over just to see if england stayed league leader, but I instantly took over when i joined the league. (and then the game "crashed")

 

[Dominion]

Passing Ewiger Landfriede with a -.19 IA gain (= tons of protestant princes) is a bad choice anyways. You'll never be able to force religion on them without spending points and some of them will refuse altogether.

 

[bradles0]

Passing Ewiger Landfriede with a -.19 IA gain (= tons of protestant princes) is a bad choice anyways. You'll never be able to force religion on them without spending points and some of them will refuse altogether.

only 6/7 electors, -.10
3/8 free cities, -.03
25/38 heretic princes, -.25
so i only need 6 of them to convert to break even once i get around to putting the empire back together after the league wars are over.

And you can just pass reforms off of adding 45 provinces anyway. Just take a chunk out of Russia and pass a reform.

 

[bradles0]

I had a sudden realization, which is that I don't actually need to join the protestant league...
So i converted, lost emperorship to bavaria, and england declared the league war less than a month later.

 

[Dominion]

only 6/7 electors, -.10
3/8 free cities, -.03
25/38 heretic princes, -.25
so i only need 6 of them to convert to break even once i get around to putting the empire back together after the league wars are over.

And you can just pass reforms off of adding 45 provinces anyway. Just take a chunk out of Russia and pass a reform.

You still end up with Protestant princes. That's heresy and needs to be avoided under all circumstances.

You're not going to defend those of ill faith, are you?

 

[Sfan]

Well you don't care that they're protestant, they will fade into greyskin soon enough and noone will remember them.

 

[bradles0]

MMMMM tasty.
Sitting out the religious war is good for Ol' Austria
Went protestant, improved relations with Brandenburg, and then waited patiently (palatinate PU is 42% chance of inheritance now, maybe I'll even be an electorate soon)