The Weird and Wonderful

[ObnoxiousMushroom]

I was playing a Mali game the other day tidying up some achievements and about 1550 I got an alert from Austria saying that the HRE had been disbanded due to the lack of suitable Emperors after the current Habsburg ruler died. This was during the reformation wars within the Empire and he hadn't passed any reforms so the elective system was still in full swing. I find it hard to believe that NOBODY was suitable for emperorship, so does anyone have any idea how this happened?

A few months on and almost all Imperial territory has been eaten by Austria, Bohemia, Denmark and France. Looks to be gearing up for some very interesting shenanigans in central Europe, I'm kind of annoyed that I'm out of the way in Africa and America so I can't capitalize on it

Furthermore, in this game, control of the entire Maghreb region seems to flip between Portugal and Morocco every 15 years or so, Portugal will eat all of it and then a few years later Morocco (now an OPM) will take it all back. They have been rinsing and repeating this for decades.

Also, a couple of games ago as the Ottomans, Reformed Christianity got crushed immediately because 2 of the centres of reformation were within fresh Protestant land (my guess is the Protestant provinces couldn't be converted yet due to the 30 year cooldown) and the other one was on Rhodes, which I promptly ate and converted.

Does anybody have any other odd stories of weird stuff the AI did in their games, and is it worth continuing a campaign I would otherwise leave just to see how these play out?

 

[Susanna]

Funky game! Would be fun to watch.

 

[ObnoxiousMushroom]

Funky game! Would be fun to watch.

Looking forward to seeing what happens and whether Austria stays alive for long. Their ideas all seem to revolve around diplomacy and the HRE so I'm thinking Ottomans might squeeze into German land pretty darn quickly if they can muscle through Hungary. I'll stick up some screenshots of what happens if I remember

 

[Tom D.]

I think I read somewhere this has to do that Emperorship is somehow fixed for the Emperor during the League Wars, so even if he's not suitable it remains the same nation but also resulting in this if there is no suitable heir. I don't know the details though but that's most likely the reason.

 

[ObnoxiousMushroom]

I think I read somewhere this has to do that Emperorship is somehow fixed for the Emperor during the League Wars, so even if he's not suitable it remains the same nation but also resulting in this if there is no suitable heir. I don't know the details though but that's most likely the reason.

Aaah that would make sense, I can imagine that actually, it might be problematic for the Emperorship to change during th League Wars so that's probably it, thanks a lot.

So what happens to the league war then? I'm currently a few decades on from that so it's ended and I can't see this in the game, but does the war just continue when the Empire dissolves or does it end inconclusively due to an invalid CB or something?

Also I'm still amazed at North Africa, and at the ability of an OPM Morocco to, without allies, trounce both Portugal and Castile (with Aragon and Naples) to retake its cores. How on earth does this happen!?!