What you think of my German Empire?
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A lot can go very wrong with a Brandenburg game! In my current Brandenburg game, Austria managed to pass the reform disallowing internal HRE wars, before I could take Nürnburg and form Germany, which put a very hard and fast block on my expansion. They also PU'd Naples and Poland and inherited both, allying with both super-Sweden and Russia to cut me off completely from any expansion route.
In fact, I'd say the OP's game looks like it's gone the best I've ever seen a Brandenburg game go. No Sweden, Weak Austria. Weak Poland/Lithuania. Buffer between you and Russia. The only thing not gone perfect is that France and Britain are still alive!
Britain cant do much as I have 150k troops and they can only transport so many troops at one time and france is REALLY weak and vulnerable due to losing war after war after war. I am just scared of Castile.
How do you have such good borders?
In my games, nations have provinces all over the place
OT: That's a nice empire, I would try getting some colonies in Americas, Africa or Asia.
In my games, nations have provinces all over the place
OT: That's a nice empire, I would try getting some colonies in Americas, Africa or Asia.
You should be perfectly fine. Bump up that troop count to something befitting your size and roll over Europe. You should have your force limit at MINIMUM -- and go over it by as much as you need to to get your income below about 10-20 ducats a month. You may end up needing to use up a lot of manpower against Castile, but they should roll over and die just as quick as any other nation.
Granted, that was one of my first games, so I'm sure I can do much better now.
Also, India and half of Africa are Prussian, but I was just showing off with my European prowess!
Started as Saxony, only got the right provinces to tag switch in 1817.
I tried to expand mostly diplomatically and sucked pretty badly (people I married kept turning into republics), making a terrible mistake of giving Bavaria back a province Bohemia had taken. Otherwise I'd have been able to get that extra war in against Spain to kick them out of Austria.
Cologne is the Emperor, Hansa, Salzberg and Bavaria are the only other protestants after I diplovassalised and annexed the others.
I also have Bengal and a few bits of the Philipines node.
I tried to expand mostly diplomatically and sucked pretty badly (people I married kept turning into republics), making a terrible mistake of giving Bavaria back a province Bohemia had taken. Otherwise I'd have been able to get that extra war in against Spain to kick them out of Austria.
Cologne is the Emperor, Hansa, Salzberg and Bavaria are the only other protestants after I diplovassalised and annexed the others.
I also have Bengal and a few bits of the Philipines node.
Had a ton of bad rulers (in whose honor I named my single colonial nation, "BadRulerBurg"), and about 70 years worth of regencies. I got only one PU, through war, with Burgundy.
The last 120 years or so were mostly border tidying and vassal absorption. Tag switching to the HRE obviously would have made things considerably easier, but I didn't wanna. I may load up the game again and tag switch to Germany just to see how much difference the accepted cultures would make on my manpower/income.
There are a lot of things I could have done better or faster, but it was a fun romp.