Bavaria — Not random

Conditions

• Austria exists
• At least one of the following must occur:
  • State religion is Protestant
  • State religion is Reformed

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1527
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1529)

Description

After Emperor Charles V had rejected the Protestants confessional positions at the Imperial Parliament of Augsburg (1529-1530), the North German Protestant Imperial estates formed the League of Schmalkalden, with a joint army and treasury and seeking ties abroad (France). The League enjoyed early successes in the years 1532-1540 as the Emperor was threaten by Turkish danger and forced to conclude Religious peace settlements in Nuremberg (1532) and Kaaden (1534).

Actions

A. Give it your support

• +50 relations with Brandenburg
• +50 relations with Brunswick
• +50 relations with Hesse
• +50 relations with Palatinate
• +50 relations with Saxony
• +50 relations with Würzburg
• +50 relations with Baden
• -50 relations with Papal States
• -50 relations with Spain
• -100 relations with Austria

B. Ignore it

• -150 relations with Brandenburg
• -150 relations with Brunswick
• -150 relations with Hesse
• -150 relations with Palatinate
• -150 relations with Saxony
• -150 relations with Würzburg
• -150 relations with Baden
• +50 relations with Austria
• +50 relations with Cologne

Bavaria — Not random

Conditions

• At least one of the following must occur:
  • State religion is Protestant
  • State religion is Reformed

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1605
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1609)

Description

The Holy Roman Empire had a fragile balance, split between 10 major and nearly 400 minor states and principalities, as well as two opposing religions. The power of the Emperor is quite limited beyond his direct domains and the erratic and inconsistent behavior of some of them as Rudolph II increases frictions. In 1608, the Protestant city of Donauwerth refused Catholics the right to practice their cult and is banned from the Empire. As a reaction, most German Protestant states form the Evangelic Union to defend their freedom.

Actions

A. Prepare to Join

• +50 relations with Brandenburg
• +50 relations with Brunswick
• +50 relations with Hesse
• +50 relations with Palatinate
• +50 relations with Saxony
• +50 relations with Würzburg
• +50 relations with Baden
• -50 relations with Papal States
• -50 relations with Spain
• -100 relations with Austria

B. Stay Neutral

• -150 relations with Brandenburg
• -150 relations with Brunswick
• -150 relations with Hesse
• -150 relations with Palatinate
• -150 relations with Saxony
• -150 relations with Würzburg
• -150 relations with Baden
• +50 relations with Austria
• +50 relations with Cologne

Bavaria — Not random

Conditions

• At least one of the following must occur:
  • State religion is Catholic
  • State religion is Counter-Reform Catholic

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1607
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1609)

Description

The German Catholic states felt threatened by the 1608 creation of the Evangelic Union of their northern Protestant neighbors, following the Donauwerth exclusion from the Empire. Feeling the urge to unite, they regrouped into a Catholic League that same year. The stage was set for the Thirty Years War.

Actions

A. Prepare to Join

• -100 relations with Brandenburg
• -100 relations with Brunswick
• -100 relations with Hesse
• -100 relations with Palatinate
• -100 relations with Saxony
• -100 relations with Würzburg
• -100 relations with Baden
• +100 relations with Cologne
• +100 relations with Cleves
• +150 relations with Papal States
• +150 relations with Spain
• +150 relations with Austria

B. Stay Neutral

• +50 relations with Brandenburg
• +50 relations with Brunswick
• +50 relations with Hesse
• +50 relations with Palatinate
• +50 relations with Saxony
• +50 relations with Würzburg
• +50 relations with Baden
• -50 relations with Papal States
• -50 relations with Spain
• -100 relations with Austria

Bavaria — Not random

Conditions

• Country is not at war
• Is not a vassal

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1620
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1640)

Description

The Wittelsbach dynasty which ruled the duchy of Bavaria was a younger branch of the family which also ruled the Palatinate. The head of the elder branch was one of the seven Prince-Electors of the Empire according to the Golden Bull of 1356, but Bavaria was excluded from the Electoral dignity. In 1621, Frederick V, ruler of the Palatinate, was put under the Imperial ban for his role in the Bohemian Revolt against Emperor Ferdinand II, and the Electoral dignity and territory of the Upper Palatinate was conferred upon his loyal cousin, Maximilian, Duke of Bavaria. Although the Peace of Westphalia would create a new Electoral title for Frederick V's son, with the exception of a brief period during the War of the Spanish Succession, Maximilian's descendants would continue to hold the original Electoral dignity until the extinction of his line in 1777 - at that point the two lines were joined in personal union until the Empire itself was abolished by Emperor Francis II in 1806.

Actions

A. Ascendancy!

• Stability +3
• Bavaria will now have 2 electoral votes in the Holy Roman Empire
• Centralization +1
• Innovativeness +1
• Pfalz will be considered a claim province
• Mainz will be considered a claim province
• +100 relations with the Holy Roman Emperor
• +50 relations with a random elector
• +50 relations with a random elector
• +50 relations with a random elector
• +50 relations with a random elector
• +50 relations with a random elector
• +50 relations with a random elector
• +50 relations with a random elector
• +200

Bavaria — Not random

Will happen within 10 days of January 2, 1741
Checked again every 10 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after June 2, 1741)

Description

The Pragmatic Sanction, solemnly rendered by Emperor Charles VI on 19th April 1713, established the indivisibility of the Habsburg patrimony, and ruled the order of succession by order of first born child, even to a woman. This made Maria-Theresa, born in 1717, the heir of the Empire. The Pragmatic Sanction was recognized by Spain in 1725 (confirmed in 1731), Russia in 1726, Prussia in 1728, the United Provinces in 1731, Hanover in 1732, the Heiliges Reich (except Bavaria) in 1732 and France in 1738 only. Bavarian refusal would lead to the War of the Austrian Succession.

Actions

A. Anti-Habsburg

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Austria for 36 months
• Stability -1
• +150 relations with Prussia
• +150 relations with Saxony
• +50 relations with Genoa
• +150 relations with France
• -100 relations with England
• -100 relations with Netherlands
• -100 relations with Russia
• -50 relations with Hesse
• -50 relations with Hanover
• -150 relations with Austria

B. Neutral

• -50 relations with Prussia
• -50 relations with Saxony
• -50 relations with France
• +100 relations with England
• +100 relations with Netherlands
• +50 relations with Russia
• +100 relations with Hesse
• +100 relations with Hanover
• +100 relations with Austria
• Stability +1

C. Pro-Habsburg

• -150 relations with Prussia
• -150 relations with Saxony
• -150 relations with France
• +150 relations with England
• +100 relations with Netherlands
• +50 relations with Russia
• +150 relations with Hesse
• +150 relations with Hanover
• +150 relations with Austria
• Stability -2
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Prussia for 12 months

Bavaria — Not random

Conditions

• Monarch Ludwig I is active

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1825
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1837)

Description

King Ludwig was renowned for his patronage of the Bavarian city of Munich, which he successfully nurtured as the cultural capital of Germany. Among other projects he commissioned the Walhalla temple, the Befreiungshalle, the Villa Ludwigshöhe, the Pompejanum, the Ludwigstraße, the Bavaria statue, the Ruhmeshalle, the Glyptothek, and both the Old and the New Pinakothek. He moved the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität from Landshut to Munich in 1826. Ludwig also encouraged Bavaria's industrialization, and initiated the Ludwig Canal between the Main and the Danube. In 1835 the first German railway was constructed in his domain, between the cities of Fürth and Nuremberg.

Actions

A. Invest in Munich

• +5 base tax value in Bayern
• Innovativeness +1
• Infrastructure tech investment: +1000
• Trade tech investment: +1000
• Gain Fine Arts Academy in Bayern
• -400
• Stability +2

B. Improve the forts in Ansbach

Conditions

• Own Ansbach

Effects

• +2 base manpower in Ansbach
• Offensive Doctrine -1
• Quality +1
• Land tech investment: +500
• Fortress level in Ansbach +1
• -400
• Stability +1

C. These projects are too expensive

• -25 victory points

Bavaria — Not random

Conditions

• Event 3519 - The July Revolution for France has already occurred
• Monarch Ludwig I is active

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1830
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1837)

Description

King Ludwig was initially a liberal, a supporter of Napoleon, and for many years championed Enlightenment values - even backing the Greeks in their struggle against the Ottoman Empire. Following the July Revolution of 1830 in France, King Ludwig's previous liberal policy became more and more repressive. The Hambacher Fest in 1832 revealed the discontent of the population caused by high taxes and censorship. In connection with the unrest of May 1832, some 142 political trials were initiated. The seven death sentences that were pronounced were commuted to long-term imprisonment by the king. About 1,000 political trials were to take place during Ludwig's reign. The strict censorship, which he had reinstated after having abolished it in 1825, was opposed by large sectors of the population. Further riots and scandals followed throughout the 1830s and 40s, until the Revolutions of 1848 finally forced Ludwig's abdication in favour of his eldest son, Maximilian.

Actions

A. Stay the course

• Centralization +1
• Mercantilism +1
• Serfdom +1
• +50 relations with Austria
• +50 relations with Prussia
• +50 relations with Russia
• Monarch's diplomatic skill -1 for 120 months
• Monarch's administrative skill +1 for 120 months
• Monarch's military skill +1 for 120 months
• Stability -2

B. Appease the Liberals

• Aristocracy -1
• Innovativeness +1
• +50 relations with England
• +50 relations with France
• +50 relations with Netherlands
• Monarch's diplomatic skill +1 for 120 months
• Monarch's administrative skill +1 for 120 months
• Monarch's military skill -1 for 120 months
• Stability +1

Bavaria — Not random

Triggered by

Action B of 3173 - The Succession of Carlos II in Spain for Spain

Description

On November 1st, 1700, the last Habsburg king Charles II of Spain died heirless. Both Louis XIV of France and Leopold I of Austria had married the defunct king's sisters and had thus direct and legitimate claims to the succession. To prevent that the chosen heir reigned over too powerful a kingdom, the European had anticipated the crisis and agreed in 1697 and again in early 1700 to a partition that would retain the Balance of Power in Europe. However, Carlos II and the Spanish Government was greatly upset by the other countries meddling in strictly Spanish affairs and thus tried to name Philip of Anjou, grandson of the Sun-King, the heir to the Spanish throne. However in the late phase of the Franco-Spanish negotiations a secretary of one of the Spanish ministers leaked out information and Habsburg partisans back in Madrid argued for allocating succession to the Austrian branch of the Habsburg dynasty, so Charles II hard beset, in one of his last official acts, left Spain to his nephew, Charles of Habsburg. This solution endangered the European balance of power and led to the formation of the Grand Alliance against Austria and Spain. Thus when Austrian forces reinforced the Spanish Netherlands the War of Spanish Succession broke out.

Actions

A. Accept it conditionally

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Austria for 36 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against France for 36 months
• +100 relations with France
• +100 relations with Austria
• +150 relations with England
• +150 relations with Netherlands
• +150 relations with Brandenburg
• Stability +1

B. Fight him

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Austria for 36 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Spain for 36 months
• -150 relations with Spain
• +150 relations with France
• -150 relations with Austria
• +150 relations with England
• +150 relations with Netherlands
• +150 relations with Brandenburg
• Stability +3

C. Accept it

• +150 relations with Spain
• -150 relations with France
• +150 relations with Austria
• +150 relations with England
• +150 relations with Netherlands
• +150 relations with Brandenburg
• Stability -1

Bavaria — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 3173 - The Succession of Carlos II in Spain for Spain

Description

On November 1st, 1700, the last Habsburg king Charles II of Spain died heirless. Both Louis XIV of France and Leopold I of Austria had married the defunct king's sisters and had thus direct and legitimate claims to the succession. To prevent that the chosen heir reigned over too powerful a kingdom, the European had anticipated the crisis and agreed in 1697 and again in early 1700 to a partition that would retain the Balance of Power in Europe. However, Carlos II and the Spanish Government was greatly upset by the other countries meddling in strictly Spanish affairs and thus named Philip of Anjou, grandson of the Sun-King, the heir to the Spanish throne. This solution endangered the European balance of power and led to the formation of the Grand Alliance against France and Spain. Thus when French forces occupied the Spanish Netherlands the War of Spanish Succession broke out.

Actions

A. Accept it

• +150 relations with Spain
• +150 relations with France
• -150 relations with Austria
• -100 relations with England
• -100 relations with Netherlands
• -100 relations with Brandenburg
• Stability +2

B. Fight him

• Gain a temporary casus belli against France for 36 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Spain for 36 months
• +150 relations with Austria
• +100 relations with England
• +100 relations with Netherlands
• +100 relations with Brandenburg
• -150 relations with Spain
• -150 relations with France
• Stability -1

Bavaria — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 3852 - The Bavarian Archbishops for Cologne

Description

Ernst, a member of our ruling Wittelsbach family, has been appointed Archbishop of Cologne. This means a new era of Bavarian influence there.

Actions

A. Splendid!

• Gain Cologne as vassals
• Gain a royal marriage with Cologne

Bavaria — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 3207 - The Bavarian Succession of 1777 for Austria

Description

After the extinction of the Wittelsbach dynasty in Bavaria (1777), Joseph II endeavored to strengthen the position of Austria within the Empire. His plan to exchange territories with Charles Theodore of the Palatinate, the heir of the Bavarian throne (Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate for Lower Austria) led to the War of the Bavarian Succession (1778-1779). Prussia intervened in July 1778 in what she saw as a dangerous Austrian expansion. It was a short conflict which started with a Prussian invasion of Bohemia but was terminated in May 1779s when Empress Maria Theresa forced her son Joseph II to capitulate. The peace was concluded at Teschen on 16th May 1779 and Austria settled for the small Inn district.

Actions

A. Defend your Throne

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Austria for 24 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Palatinate for 24 months
• -150 relations with Austria
• -150 relations with Palatinate
• +200 relations with Prussia
• Gain a royal marriage with Prussia
• Stability +1
• -2% inflation
• +300
• +25000 infantry in a random province
• +12000 cavalry in the same province
• +35 artillery in the same province