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Episode 4: The true Reformation

Episode 4: The true Reformation

March 3rd 1518.

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As we foresaw, Martin Luther gained followers all over Europe and declared a new faith, the Protestianism.

While we respect his ideas, we wonder why teach another faith than our Hussite faith? We are so much alike...

At least, we respect them much more than those filthy christians... Maybe now that new faiths are coming to their ears, they will start to fear the changes that we bring.​
 
First Hussite-Polish War

The First Hussite-Polish War

August 15th 1520.

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Poland is furious that a german minor as Wurtemberg controls Poznan and declares war upon them. Pommern and Mecklenburg quickly join the fight for the Hussite alliance while Hungary (ah!) joins Poland. We join the fight and assume leadership of our alliance. We set our sights on Danzig, wich is now a great Center of Trade... this will soon be ours!


Meanwhile, in the country...

January 22nd 1522.

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After Martin Luther, another man comes in our land teaching new prayers. They call this faith "Reformed Christians".

We see in that religion our own faith. Christian Europe will soon be torn apart, we hope.

January 26th 1523.

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Ansbach has now converted to Protestianism. Altough we are not pleased they did not convert to our Hussite faith, we are thankful they converted from christianity.

February 13th 1523.

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Our attempts to convert our slovak brothers were successful! One more state that follows us!


April 14th 1523.

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After 3 years of intense fighting, we finally conquered Poland. They were a tough nut to crack but their forces were not mentally as strong as ours. Hungary is trying to keep their borders safe while we muster strong regiments along our eastern borders.

Poland surrenders and gives us control of Danzig (their Center of trade!) and Wielkopolska.

Now to finish up Hungary...

 
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October 13th 1523.

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Our first ships have arrived! Those galleys will be the first step toward our control of the baltic sea!

December 3rd 1523.

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While we are busy fighting the resisting Hungarians, a catholic german alliance led by Hessen and Austria declares war upon us. Those opportunist dogs, we shall teach them a lesson. We quickly call our allies to arms and we are ready to wage war.

We are now fighting a two fronts war and we need to finish one of them quickly. We shall now pray for a miracle!

 
War on two fronts!

December 3rd 1523.

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We are currently fighting on two fronts. This could be really dangerous so we need to make peace with one side or another really quick!

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We are pleased to know that Hungary wishes to make peace with us! They offer us a petty tribute but we don't care for ducats right now. We want to center our efforts on 1 front.

May 14th 1525.

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Before entering large-scale fights with us, Austria offers white peace. We accept, as we will concentrate our war efforts on our western german neighbors. Austria can wait...

February 23rd 1526.

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It is now Danzig's turn to be converted. We need this great center of trade to be pure Hussite!

March 26th 1526.

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Hessen is defeated and we shall annex them for good. Germany is getting closer to being unified by Hussites!

August 29th 1526.

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Lajos is dead without an heir. Austria claims our throne and do not have the strenght to fight them back. We shall accept the Habsburgs as hereditary kings but they WILL let us remain independent. If not.. we shall fight for our freedom!

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Ferdinand I of Habsburg shall be our new leader...

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February 23rd 1528.

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The german war is at an end. With the help of Mecklenburg, we squashed Hannover and make them our vassals. Their help might prove useful in the future.

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March 25th 1528.

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Erz has tasted the protestant faith and converted to their beliefs. This is one of our national provinces and we can't let that happen. We will soon remind them of the great Jan Hus!

We shall accept christians and protestants in our borders.

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April 5th 1530.

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Sweden is the first major nation to convert to protestianism. Maybe now that the reformation is in the air, we shall breathe easier. We can now have royal marriages with Protestant countries! Hurray!


April 15th 1530.

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Danzig converts to protestianism, but our missionaries are already converting them to OUR faith, this is only a matter of time!


June 23rd 1532.

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As we predicted, Danzig is now a Hussite state!

 
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The world in 1532

The world in 1532

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After Castille disapearing, looks like the Ottomans were exterminated too! Seljuk Turks took their place but seem to struggle with the Mameluks and Qara Koyunlu. France lost some provinces due to some war-exhaustion rebellions and are not the major power they were anymore.

The Hussites have taken about 75% of Germany and are in a grand expansion phase!​
 
Protestianism rush!

February 8th 1534.

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England has converted to protestianism, as Sweden done before.

January 9th 1535.

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Erz is now ripe to be re-converted to our faith. They experienced protestianism but it is now time to re-join our community!

July 15th 1536.

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Wurtemberg, our ally, has converted to protestianism and allied itself with Gotland and Austria.. We are really frustrated by this event. The Hussites never forget!


September 8th 1537.

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Brandenburg also converted to protestianism. This is going great as the christians are loosing more and more territories to reformists!


April 2nd 1538.

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Meclenburg, our vassal, also converted. We do not care as we have other plans for them.

By August, their lands becomes ours!

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October 11th 1538.

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Carpathia, our other Slovak province, is now ripe to be converted to our faith. Let's continue our work, my brothers!

February 4th 1540.

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Erz has been re-converted and our national provinces are now all under one faith!


August 4th 1540.

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DISASTER! Austria inherited Hungary and are now flanking us from the east, south and west. We must do something immediately! We will gather our troops and recuit new regiments for the upcoming fight. We have a casus belli on them and we WILL fight!​
 
I hope the same doesn't happen to you now with the Habsburg on the throne. :eek:

Great work on conversions. Danzig, especially. :D
 
Second Hussite-Austrian War (Habsburg VS Habsburg)

October 3rd 1541.

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Austria is busy fighting Bulgaria, Moldavia and Wallachia in the east and we ammassed over 100,000 strong men to fight them! We are now ready to strike at them!

Ferdinand is upset but even he cannot restrain the Hussite council. We shall march!

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Early on, we make peace with Wurtemberg who immediatly accepts. We laugh as they return to their lands and we get to fight the Austrians alone!

Our 1st Hussite army consisting of 30,000 men siege Wien from Presburg, while our 1st Faith Army of 28,000 men is striking Tirol from Bayern.

Our own 2nd and 3rd Hussite armies (15,000 men) strike respectively to the west from Wurzburg and to the east from Carpathia.

We keep some small 5,000-10,000 militia regiments in our capital to protect our borders.

Austria is caught defenseless and soon, Wien, Tirol, Mainz and Magyar are ours!

Our 1st Hussite army advance further into Steiermark while our 1st Faith army protects Tirol from incoming armies.

Soon, Schwyz and Milan are caught by patriotic rebels and Austria cannot bring more troops from the west.

We are pushing forward in Hungarian territories when, in December 1543, Austria surrenders and offers us Krain, Tirol and Steiermark. We have won a decisive victory and isolated their capitals.

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This is our greatest victory, men! For the Hussites, For the Faith!


Hussite Bohemia after the second Hussite-Austrian War
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January 4th 1544.

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We finally converted all of our slovak brothers. Now with the remaining germans...

September 18th 1544.

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Pommern converted to protestianism. We are quick to re-create an alliance with them to protect our southern border from incoming pirates and ennemy countries.


June 3rd 1547.

After the second Hussite-Austrian War, some states such as Milan and Schwyz revolted and formed their own respective nations. It dealt a solid blow to Austria, who tried to regain those lost provinces. We cannot enter this independance war but we brought those two new nations in our alliance so that now Austria will have to think twice before attacking them.

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