Lithuania — Not random

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1428
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1430)

Description

Lithuania had been a most undeveloped country for many centuries. Her population was regarded as pagan savages, living only under the sky and its gods. But during the 14th and early 15th century Lithuania had been Christianized and in 1429 the Statute of Lithuania, a codifying of the old traditional juristicial praxis, was issued. In this way Lithuania took her first steps toward centralization and modernization.

Actions

A. Domestic Balance of Power

• Aristocracy +1
• Centralization -1
• Serfdom +1
• -1 base tax value in a random province
• -1 base tax value in a different random province
• -1 base tax value in a different random province
• -1 base tax value in a different random province
• Stability -1
• +200

B. Royal Prerogative

• Aristocracy -2
• Centralization +2
• Serfdom -2
• +1 base tax value in a random province
• +1 base tax value in a different random province
• +1 base tax value in a different random province
• +1 base tax value in a different random province
• Stability -4
• Global revolt risk +4 for 12 months

C. Magnate Republicanism

• Aristocracy +2
• Centralization -2
• Serfdom +2
• -2 base tax value in a random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• Stability +3
• -5% inflation
• Trade tech investment: +800
• Gain Refinery in a random province

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• Aristocracy is at 7 or higher
• The following must not occur:
  • Centralization is at 5 or higher

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1432
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1437)

Description

In 1434 Wladyslaw Jagiello extended the act Neninem Captivabimus, giving the nobility legal protection against random arresting by the king, to the Grand Duchy. It was some time before the principle of this was either understood or translated into common practice. While Poland demanded power-sharing and representation, Lithuania continued to be ruled autocratically.

Actions

A. Accept the Magnates demands

• -2 base tax value in a random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• Aristocracy +2
• Centralization -2
• Serfdom +2
• Stability +1

B. Limit the Magnates demands

• -1 base tax value in a random province
• -1 base tax value in a different random province
• -1 base tax value in a different random province
• -1 base tax value in a different random province
• -1 base tax value in a different random province
• -1 base tax value in a different random province
• Aristocracy +1
• Centralization -1
• Global revolt risk +4 for 12 months
• Stability -1

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Poland and Lithuania are allied
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland
  • Lithuania is in a union with Poland
  • All of the following must occur:
    • Own Masovia
    • Own Podlasia
    • The following must not occur:
      • Poland exists

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1567
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1572)

Description

On 1st July 1569 the joint force of Lithuanian and Polish Magnates as well as the Seyms of these countries met at Lublin on the border of their realms and unanimously swore a new Act of Union. There would now exist one united Seym convening in Warszawa and the country would have one King not only de facto but de jure. The Grand Duchy was to keep its old laws, a separate treasury and its own army under its own Grand Hetman and Field-Hetman. Effectively the Union was a marriage of two partners, with only the slightest hint of the dominant position of Poland. The combined Kingdom now formally became, Serenissima Republica Polonie. However there was some Lithuanian opposition before 1st July... Mikolaj the Black, the head of the mighty Radziwill family had long dreamed to of detaching the Grand Duchy from the domination and recreate a Lithuania with him as King. The first steps were taken in the 1540's when Mikolaj approached the Habsburg Emperor who was very interested in seeing a weakened Poland on her borders. This lead to Mikolaj receiving the title Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1547. In the end Mikolaj never raised the Banner of Independence. This had many causes, but one important one was the fear of standing alone against the oncoming Russian Hordes. But what if he had tried?

Actions

A. Poland inherits Lithuania

Conditions

• Poland exists

Effects

• Event 3475 - The Act of Union-'Rzeczpospolita Polska' for Poland is triggered immediately

B. Lithuania breaks with Poland

• Conditions:
  
  • Poland exists
  Event 3476 - The Act of Union-'Rzeczpospolita Polska' for Poland is triggered immediately
• Conditions:
  
  • Poland exists
  Break vassalization with Poland
• Stability +1
• +10000 infantry in the capital province
• +10000 cavalry in the capital province
• +30 artillery in the capital province
• Aristocracy -2
• Centralization +2

C. Lithuania turns to Moscow

Conditions

• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Moscow exists
  • Russia exists
• None of the following must occur:
  • Lithuania and Moscow are at war
  • Lithuania and Russia are at war

Effects

• Conditions:
  
  • Poland exists
  Event 3476 - The Act of Union-'Rzeczpospolita Polska' for Poland is triggered immediately
• Conditions:
  
  • Poland exists
  Break vassalization with Poland
• Stability -2
• ruthenian will become an accepted culture
• Change religion to Orthodox
• A random province converts to the state religion
• A different random province converts to the state religion
• +3 missionaries
• A random province revolts
• A different random province revolts
• A different random province revolts
• +150 relations with Moscow
• +150 relations with Russia
• Aristocracy -2
• Centralization +2
• Mercantilism +2
• Serfdom +2

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• None of the following must occur:
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland
  • State religion is Protestant
  • State religion is Reformed

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1570
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1576)

Description

Before the Independence in 1569 Mikolaj the Black, named king as Mikolaj I, had become Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and befriended the Habsburg ruler of Austria, the Emperor Maximilian II. Maximilian was as sharp a politician as Mikolaj and profited on weakening Poland. Now Mikolaj's position was very bad in the 1570's he had to fight broad factions of Magnates in what could be described as a Civil War and fend his borders from Polish acts of revenge or even a re-conquest. He had to do what served independence best and that was to strike a deal with Maximilian. A Military Alliance was signed on 3rd February 1570 and Mikolaj's eldest son married Elizabeth of Steirmark. This alliance actually kept Poland from attacking even if local border incursions were regular. With the ascending of Rudolf to the Habsburg Monarchy the relations became wary and the alliance fell, but at that time the relations with Poland was at least acceptable.

Actions

A. Create Axis

• -100 relations with Poland
• +150 relations with Austria
• -100 relations with Russia
• -100 relations with Sweden
• Gain a royal marriage with Austria
• Gain an alliance with Austria
• Stability +2

B. Offer Friendliness

• -50 relations with Sweden
• -50 relations with Poland
• +50 relations with Austria
• Stability +1
• +6 merchants

C. Decline Cooperation

• +50 relations with Sweden
• +50 relations with Poland
• -100 relations with Austria
• Stability -2

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• The following must not occur:
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1570
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1601)

Description

As a reaction of the introduction of the Henrykian Articles and the Pact Conventa in Poland in 1573 the Magnates approach the king and urged him to constitutionalize the rights of the Szlachta and to share power with them. If not they said, he not they would have to take the consequences. At this point Mikolaj II Krzysztof had newly been crowned. He was young and not as negative to noble power as his father had been. In an effort to keep societal peace he accepted a compromise. There were no Henrykian articles, but the constitution was modified implying that the Szlachta was the life-nerve of society with certain rights to hold office and legislative power. The Principle of Religious Tolerance was also confirmed.

Actions

A. More Rights than Duties

• Aristocracy +2
• Centralization -2
• Mercantilism +2
• Serfdom +2
• -2 base tax value in a random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• Stability +3
• +500
• Leader Khrystafor Radivil becomes active
• Leader Jan Sapiega becomes active
• Leader Ivan Hodkevych becomes active
• Leader Khrystafor Radivil becomes active
• Leader Ivan-Pavel Sapiega becomes active
• Leader Wincenty Gosiewski becomes active
• Leader Ivan Sapiega becomes active
• Leader Mykhaylo-Ivan Pats becomes active
• Leader Mykhaylo Radivil becomes active
• Leader Aleksander Sapiega becomes active

B. Balance Rights and Duties

• Aristocracy +2
• Centralization +2
• Mercantilism -2
• Serfdom +2
• -1 base tax value in a random province
• -1 base tax value in a different random province
• Stability +1
• +200
• Leader Khrystafor Radivil becomes active
• Leader Jan Sapiega becomes active
• Leader Ivan Hodkevych becomes active
• Leader Khrystafor Radivil becomes active
• Leader Ivan-Pavel Sapiega becomes active
• Leader Wincenty Gosiewski becomes active
• Leader Ivan Sapiega becomes active
• Leader Mykhaylo-Ivan Pats becomes active
• Leader Mykhaylo Radivil becomes active
• Leader Aleksander Sapiega becomes active

C. More Duties than Rights

• Aristocracy -2
• Centralization +2
• Mercantilism -2
• Serfdom -2
• Stability -3
• Global revolt risk +5 for 60 months
• Leader Khrystafor Radivil becomes active
• Leader Jan Sapiega becomes active
• Leader Ivan Hodkevych becomes active
• Leader Khrystafor Radivil becomes active
• Leader Ivan-Pavel Sapiega becomes active
• Leader Wincenty Gosiewski becomes active
• Leader Ivan Sapiega becomes active
• Leader Mykhaylo-Ivan Pats becomes active
• Leader Mykhaylo Radivil becomes active
• Leader Aleksander Sapiega becomes active

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• The following must not occur:
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1580
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1600)

Description

In Lithuania people was mostly Catholic or orthodox during the 15th and 16th century. However in the last two decades of the 16th century a lot of Protestant refugees from France, South Germany and Italy arrived. These cultural elite brought fresh idea to the Kingdom of Lithuania whom had been pressed between her Catholic and orthodox neighbors. The Radziwilli kings had strong royal power and had opened the country for influences from abroad. Cities were much more important than in the Aristocracy of Poland, and thus the people of the cities quickly became a cultural and religious melting-pot spreading Protestantism to the rural lands around them. When whole provinces slowly became Protestant the king started to support the Protestant faith. First personally and later as a State-religion looking at Prussia and Sweden as ideals. This also meant that Lithuania could take an independent stance between Russia and Poland. However, the many different religions in Lithuania made the government make a very tolerant religious policy at least until the 1640's.

Actions

A. Accept the Movement

• Religion in a random province changes to Protestant
• Religion in a different random province changes to Protestant
• Innovativeness +1
• Trade tech investment: +800
• +50 relations with Poland
• -50 relations with Austria
• -50 relations with Papal States
• +50 relations with Denmark
• +50 relations with Sweden

B. Support it and change State Religion

• Religion in a random province changes to Protestant
• Religion in a different random province changes to Protestant
• Religion in a different random province changes to Protestant
• Religion in a different random province changes to Protestant
• Innovativeness +3
• Trade tech investment: +500
• Infrastructure tech investment: +1000
• Change religion to Protestant
• +300
• -100 relations with Poland
• -100 relations with Austria
• -200 relations with Papal States
• +100 relations with Denmark
• +100 relations with Sweden
• Global revolt risk +6 for 60 months

C. Crush the Movement

• Religion in a random province changes to Protestant
• Innovativeness -3
• Land tech investment: +500
• +100 relations with Poland
• +100 relations with Austria
• +150 relations with Papal States
• -100 relations with Denmark
• -100 relations with Sweden
• Global revolt risk +4 for 60 months

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• The following must not occur:
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1590
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1610)

Description

In the 1590's when the Wave of Protestantism had started to change the fabric of Lithuanian society numerous refugees of the Reformed faith arrived in a second wave. These were Dutch, English, French and Spanish fleeing from the narrow-minded Catholic governments of their former countries. These refugees were a mix of farmers and city-dwellers and they influence the Lithuanians in approximately the same way as the earlier Protestants. However, the Lithuanian Magnates in opposition of the king viewed fellow Poland as the perfect societal form. When the king converted to the Lutheran form of Protestantism many of them became Reformed. Both to mark their difference with the king and because the Reformed ideals of God before king. The Reformed faith was also a perfect ideology for them to imprint upon the serfs. They were serfs because God wanted them to be and thus they became more manageable. In the 1630's a growing dissent between the Protestant state on one hand and the Reformed and Orthodox magnates on the other could be felt.

Actions

A. Accept the Movement

• Religion in a random province changes to Reformed
• Religion in a different random province changes to Reformed
• Innovativeness +1
• Trade tech investment: +800
• +50 relations with Poland
• -50 relations with Austria
• -50 relations with Papal States
• +50 relations with Denmark
• +50 relations with Sweden

B. Support it and change State Religion

• Religion in a random province changes to Reformed
• Religion in a different random province changes to Reformed
• Religion in a different random province changes to Reformed
• Religion in a different random province changes to Reformed
• Innovativeness +3
• Trade tech investment: +500
• Infrastructure tech investment: +1000
• Change religion to Reformed
• +300
• -100 relations with Poland
• -100 relations with Austria
• -200 relations with Papal States
• +100 relations with Netherlands
• +100 relations with Sweden
• Global revolt risk +6 for 60 months

C. Crush the Movement

• Religion in a random province changes to Reformed
• Innovativeness -3
• Land tech investment: +500
• +100 relations with Poland
• +100 relations with Austria
• +150 relations with Papal States
• -100 relations with Denmark
• -100 relations with Sweden
• Global revolt risk +4 for 60 months

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• The following must not occur:
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1601
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1631)

Description

After the two waves of refugees had arrived the Szlachta again craved compensation for accepting that religious status quo had broken. His Majesty Mikolaj II Krzysztof, now an elder and more experienced man, refused to comply with their threats. Instead he used his right to push a proposal on to the floor of the Seym, which was a compromise but one which suited the king. The rights to hold office increased, but was now also made a duty and only the king could appoint. The Szlachta was given a say in the making of Foreign Policy, but only as a second house for non-Szlachta members was instituted in the Seym which held legislative power of taxation. In many ways these reforms would decrease noble power even further as the fabric of society slowly tilted to the advantage of the bourgeois and free farmers.

Actions

A. Balance Rights and Duties

• Aristocracy +2
• Centralization +2
• Mercantilism -2
• Serfdom +2
• -1 base tax value in a random province
• -1 base tax value in a different random province
• Stability +1
• +200

B. More Rights than Duties

• Aristocracy +2
• Centralization -2
• Mercantilism +2
• Serfdom +2
• -2 base tax value in a random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• Stability +3
• +500

C. More Duties than Rights

• Aristocracy -2
• Centralization +2
• Mercantilism -2
• Serfdom -2
• Stability -3
• Global revolt risk +5 for 60 months

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• None of the following must occur:
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland
  • State religion is Catholic
  • State religion is Counter-Reform Catholic

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1604
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1618)

Description

In the first decades of the 17th century Lithuania's king had converted to Protestantism and started to support the two branches of the Reformation. All in all his ideal was an effective and modern monarchy much inspired by the Swedish kings. Building up a Protestant Church of Lithuania and getting inspiration for governmental and societal reforms the king turned to Sweden. The cooperation was of mutual benefits as Sweden soon got a Protestant friend in otherwise heretic Eastern Europe. Slowly the friendship brought a strong alliance about and King Ladislovas I eagerly encourage Gustav II Adolphus to the Protestantism in Germany. He himself would hold the Catholics and orthodox of the East in check.

Actions

A. Create Axis

• -100 relations with Poland
• -100 relations with Austria
• -100 relations with Russia
• -50 relations with Denmark
• +150 relations with Sweden
• Gain a royal marriage with Sweden
• Gain an alliance with Sweden
• Stability +2

B. Offer Friendliness

• +50 relations with Sweden
• -50 relations with Poland
• -50 relations with Russia
• Stability +1
• +6 merchants

C. Decline Cooperation

• -100 relations with Sweden
• +50 relations with Poland
• +50 relations with Russia
• Stability -2

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• None of the following must occur:
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland
  • State religion is Catholic
  • State religion is Counter-Reform Catholic

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1618
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1626)

Description

In the second decade of the 17th century Brandenburg inherited the Duchy of Prussia. Brandenburg-Prussia was a Protestant state with high tolerance versus Reformed and she approached Jerzy I with an offer. Lithuania and Brandenburg should sign a Holy Protestant Alliance and wage war on Poland. Brandenburg would be freed from her Prussian vassalage by Poland and Lithuania would whatever she wanted and could take from Poland. A faction of young governmental official cherished it, but the king was a very careful man. He and his closest advisors discussed. There conclusion was very plain. First it was an impossibility to support Germans against Poland in a war of aggression. Secondly the worst possible thing was total victory. If Lithuania took a mile of Polish land it would be a mile too much. Any conquests would include more Catholics and orthodox and worse more unruly magnates brought up in the Polish Anarchy of a country. So the king politely declined the honor, but instead he proposed a tract of trade and cultural exchange. However as most political well informed Lithuanian could have guessed it did not come much out of it. The Society of Brandenburg-Prussia had far more in common with Poland than with Lithuania. Lithuanian preferred to visit Stockholm, Copenhagen and Amsterdam too Berlin or Köningsberg.

Actions

A. Offer Friendliness

• -50 relations with Poland
• +100 relations with Prussia
• Stability +1
• +6 merchants

B. Create Axis

• -100 relations with Poland
• -50 relations with Austria
• +50 relations with Sweden
• +150 relations with Prussia
• Gain a royal marriage with Prussia
• Gain an alliance with Prussia
• Stability +1

C. Decline Cooperation

• -50 relations with Sweden
• +50 relations with Poland
• -100 relations with Prussia
• Stability -2

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• None of the following must occur:
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland
  • State religion is Protestant
  • State religion is Reformed

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1618
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1631)

Description

The Austro-Lithuanian Pact of 1570 had ended in 1576 when the obscure Rudolf came into power in Austria. King Mikolaj II Krzysztof also called 'the Little Orphan' was a well versed man and a pious Catholic whom had visited Jerusalem. When he had married Elizabeth of Steirmark he had met Rudolf whom had brought his favorite crowd of astrologists infuriating the Pious Crown-prince. From that day he could not stand the man. However, with the ascending of Ferdinand II, a distant relative to Elizabeth of Steirmark, the elderly Mikolaj II again found a man of his values. Ferdinand also wanted a strong monarchy and strengthens Catholicism in Europe. He immediately signed an alliance and bought the consent of Poland. During the Thirty Years War Lithuanian Hussaria would fight side by side with Imperial troops giving Lithuania endless amounts of Glory.

Actions

A. Create Axis

• -100 relations with Poland
• +150 relations with Austria
• -100 relations with Russia
• -100 relations with Sweden
• Gain a royal marriage with Austria
• Gain an alliance with Austria
• Stability +2

B. Offer Friendliness

• -50 relations with Sweden
• -50 relations with Poland
• +50 relations with Austria
• Stability +1
• +6 merchants

C. Decline Cooperation

• +50 relations with Sweden
• +50 relations with Poland
• -100 relations with Austria
• Stability -2

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• None of the following must occur:
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland
  • Innovativeness is at 6 or higher
  • State religion is Protestant
  • State religion is Reformed

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1630
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1646)

Description

After two waves of refugees of a new faith and years of governmental reform friction in society had come to a cross-road. Lithuania had confessors of four religions and all but one felt anger against the government. Secondly the Magnates incited revolt both on the command of God and to fight their decreasing power. When they looked over the border they saw that their Polish brothers lived like princes while they themselves where merely servants of the state, albeit rich such. They wanted power and more leeway for their religion.

Actions

A. Enforce the State Religion

• A random province converts to the state religion
• A different random province converts to the state religion
• +6 missionaries
• Stability -2
• -150 relations with Russia
• -150 relations with Sweden
• Innovativeness -3
• Centralization +2
• Aristocracy -1
• Global revolt risk +8 for 24 months

B. Support One-Church Faction

• A random province converts to the state religion
• +1 missionaries
• Stability -1
• -100 relations with Russia
• Innovativeness -1
• Centralization +1
• Global revolt risk +6 for 24 months

C. Support Tolerant Faction

• A random province converts to a heretic religion
• -6 missionaries
• Stability +2
• +50 relations with Russia
• +100 relations with Poland
• Innovativeness +3
• Centralization -2
• Aristocracy +2
• Global revolt risk +4 for 24 months

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• None of the following must occur:
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland
  • Innovativeness is at 6 or higher
  • State religion is Catholic
  • State religion is Counter-Reform Catholic
  • State religion is Reformed

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1630
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1646)

Description

After two waves of refugees of a new faith and years of governmental reform friction in society had come to a cross-road. Lithuania had confessors of four religions and all but one felt anger against the government. Secondly the Magnates incited revolt both on the command of God and to fight their decreasing power. When they looked over the border they saw that their Polish brothers lived like princes while they themselves where merely servants of the state, albeit rich such. They wanted power and more leeway for their religion.

Actions

A. Enforce the State Religion

• A random province converts to the state religion
• A different random province converts to the state religion
• +6 missionaries
• Stability -2
• -150 relations with Russia
• -150 relations with Poland
• Innovativeness -3
• Centralization +3
• Aristocracy -1
• Global revolt risk +8 for 24 months

B. Support One-Church Faction

• A random province converts to the state religion
• +1 missionaries
• Stability -1
• -100 relations with Russia
• -100 relations with Poland
• Innovativeness -1
• Centralization +1
• Global revolt risk +6 for 24 months

C. Support Tolerant Faction

• A random province converts to a heretic religion
• -6 missionaries
• Stability +2
• +50 relations with Russia
• +100 relations with Poland
• Innovativeness +3
• Centralization -2
• Aristocracy +2
• Global revolt risk +4 for 24 months

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• None of the following must occur:
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland
  • Innovativeness is at 6 or higher
  • State religion is Catholic
  • State religion is Counter-Reform Catholic
  • State religion is Protestant

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1630
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1646)

Description

After two waves of refugees of a new faith and years of governmental reform friction in society had come to a cross-road. Lithuania had confessors of four religions and all but one felt anger against the government. Secondly the Magnates incited revolt both on the command of God and to fight their decreasing power. When they looked over the border they saw that their Polish brothers lived like princes while they themselves where merely servants of the state, albeit rich such. They wanted power and more leeway for their religion.

Actions

A. Enforce the State Religion

• A random province converts to the state religion
• A different random province converts to the state religion
• A different random province converts to the state religion
• +3 missionaries
• Stability -2
• -150 relations with Russia
• -150 relations with Poland
• Innovativeness -3
• Centralization +3
• Aristocracy +1
• Global revolt risk +8 for 24 months

B. Support One-Church Faction

• A random province converts to the state religion
• +1 missionaries
• Stability +1
• -100 relations with Russia
• -100 relations with Poland
• Innovativeness -1
• Centralization +1
• Global revolt risk +6 for 24 months

C. Support Tolerant Faction

• A random province converts to a heretic religion
• -6 missionaries
• Stability +2
• +50 relations with Russia
• +100 relations with Poland
• Innovativeness +3
• Centralization -2
• Aristocracy +3
• Global revolt risk +4 for 24 months

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• The following must not occur:
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1631
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1651)

Description

During the 1630's and 1640's the Magnates found life in the kingdom unbearable. To escape the egalitarian powers of the government and the king many of the started to interfere in local Polish business. Many of them owned as much lands on one as the other side of the border. They freely swapped lands with their Polish brother and thus managed to strengthen the Cause in both Poland and Lithuania. During the Deluge the Magnates of the Ukraine and the Wild lands fought all and everyone. Poland was in havoc and the Lithuanian king had to accept the fact that he only could control the Northern part of his lands. At these point King Aleksandras II mounted a huge campaign against the Tartars, Russians and Crimeans swapping up insurrective Magnates at the same time. He though stopped from interfering with the polish government, 'that last sane mind on that side of the border' as he called King Wladyslaw IV of Poland. The subjugated Magnates had two options. They either had to accept a tough reform package or get all there lands confiscated and pushed over the border to Poland. The choice was easy. They stay, but the reform was harsh. Only the state could now own land. The user only owned the right to use it. But to keep that right the user had to pay a user's fee decided by the king. With this vehicle the king started to break the large latifund holdings of the Magnates and again changing the fabric of society. His son continued the reform policy after the king was murdered by a Ukrainian Magnate on 30th March 1654.

Actions

A. More Duties than Rights

• Aristocracy -2
• Centralization +2
• Mercantilism -2
• Serfdom -2
• Stability -3
• Global revolt risk +5 for 60 months

B. More Rights than Duties

• Aristocracy +2
• Centralization -2
• Mercantilism +2
• Serfdom +2
• -2 base tax value in a random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• Stability +3
• +500

C. Balance Rights and Duties

• Aristocracy +2
• Centralization +2
• Mercantilism -2
• Serfdom +2
• -1 base tax value in a random province
• -1 base tax value in a different random province
• Stability +1
• +200

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• The following must not occur:
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland

Will happen within 0 days of January 2, 1652
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1653)

Description

In 1652 as King Aleksandras II was clearing up things in the Ukraine He was brought the news of the introduction of the Librum Veto in Poland. A week later he got the news that 'his' Seym had voted for the same rights. By carefully reading of reports he found that certain Lithuanian Magnates had nearly doubled the size of the Lithuanian Szlachta by swapping lands with Poles. Frustrated the king declared the law illegitimate. The king had the support of those who were not nobles, but his troubles would live on as long as the Liberum veto existed in Poland. In a famous address he declared himself allied with the Polish people and the at war with the Polish Szlachta.

Actions

A. Move against the 'Magnate-Republic'

• Event 3461 - Civil War in Lithuania for Lithuania is triggered immediately
• Stability -3
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Poland for 48 months
• +20000 infantry in a random province
• +10000 cavalry in the same province
• +30 artillery in the same province

B. Give Concessions to the Lithuanian Magnates

• Aristocracy +3
• Centralization -3
• Mercantilism +3
• Serfdom +5
• -2 base tax value in a random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• -2 base tax value in a different random province
• Stability -3
• Global revolt risk +3 for 60 months

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• The following must not occur:
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland

Will happen within 0 days of January 2, 1698
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1699)

Description

In 1698 Russia, Poland and Denmark formed an alliance against the eighteen year old king Charles XII of Sweden. They thought it as a good opportunity for revenge and to cut that major power to pieces. The Lithuanians which always had a good relation towards Sweden since the days of Gustav II Adolphus was approached by the Swedes. The Swedes wanted Lithuania to join in an Anti-Russian alliance for the good of both their countries. The King, Karol I Stanislovas, a fine general and knower of men immediately like Charles XII's character and his habit of getting to the point very fast. The King was though hesitant. Lithuania was a vast country and in-between Poland and Russia. It would be a hard task and the Swedes would most certainly be occupied with the Danes first. But against the advice of his most trustworthy advisors he signed the Pact knowing that Lithuanian would have to fight this fight sooner or later, and as he said 'I rather do it with a noble intention'.

Actions

A. Support Sweden

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Russia for 36 months
• +150 relations with Sweden
• -150 relations with Russia
• -100 relations with Poland
• -50 relations with Denmark
• +50 relations with France
• +50 relations with Ottoman Empire
• Stability +3
• Land tech investment: +800

B. Support Russia

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Sweden for 36 months
• -150 relations with Sweden
• +150 relations with Russia
• +100 relations with Poland
• +50 relations with Denmark
• -50 relations with France
• -150 relations with Ottoman Empire
• Stability -2
• A random province revolts
• A different random province revolts
• +300

C. Support the Poland

• -150 relations with Sweden
• -50 relations with Russia
• +150 relations with Poland
• +50 relations with Denmark
• -50 relations with France
• -150 relations with Ottoman Empire
• Stability +1

Lithuania — Not random

Will happen within 0 days of January 2, 1709
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1711)

Description

During 1709-10 Lithuania endure the harshest winter of a century. But as that was not enough an epidemic plague spread through the lands killing many thousands. There is talking of the Scourge of God and people pray...

Actions

A. Arrgh!

• -15% population in Belarus
• -15% population in Mozyr
• -15% population in Lithuania
• -15% population in Volyn
• -15% population in Chernigov
• Lose 7321 troops in a random province
• Lose 5478 troops in a different random province
• Lose 3934 troops in a different random province

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• The following must not occur:
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1720
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1728)

Description

Pietism was a religious movement that started in Germany during the latter part of the 17th century. Traditionally, the Pietist movement has been viewed as a backlash against intellectualism prevalent in and among the Protestant ranks, especially in the Lutheran Church during that period. However, Pietism was regular also within the other Christian forms. It was with the return of prisoners of war that the movement really took off in Lithuania. However, the Lithuanian Church disapproved most strongly of unauthorized preaching, which led to the Conventicle Edict of 1729, forbidding any religious gatherings outside the framework of the Church.

Actions

A. Encourage it

• Innovativeness +3
• Centralization -1
• Create a religious revolt in a random province
• Create a religious revolt in a different random province

B. Stop it

• Innovativeness -3
• Centralization +1
• Create a religious revolt in a random province
• Create a religious revolt in a different random province

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• The following must not occur:
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland

Will happen within 0 days of November 21, 1790
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after November 22, 1790)

Description

In the Ebb of the Enlightenment Lithuanian government started to change slowly into a more pluralistic and modern society. Royal power was decreased to the fortune of the many and not the few. With the Revolutions in America and France both Poland and Lithuania started egalitarian reforms. Archconservative Russia which had conquered the Ukraine and the Wild lands did not appreciate these developments. She struck a deal with Austria and Prussia to split Poland and Lithuania and bring it under 'civilized' rule. The Revolutionary Wars of the East was triggered by the Murder of the Lithuanian king, Karol II Stanislovas, on 21st November 1790. The king had visited the theater in Vilnius and was shot by three cloaked men point blank when leaving his carriage to enter the Royal Palace. The king traveled lightly so his personal guards and servants all succumbed in the fighting and the murderers disappeared in the night. On 23rd the news hit the streets and thousands of angry people stormed the Russian Embassy lynching everyone in sight. The Russian Government immediately craved an official apology and to let Russian special police help the investigation. At the same time the Police Master of Vilnius, Rafal Kresmanikes, received a messenger from the Swedish Police Master in Dorpat, Gustav Adolf Reuterholm. Reuterholm disclosed a lead that Kresmanikes found leading to St. Petersburg. The young King, Ludwike Mykolas I, was furious. He allied with Poland and mobilized the army. Within three month the country was ready for war, a war of revenge.

Actions

A. This Great Nation craves Revenge!

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Austria for 24 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Russia for 24 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Prussia for 24 months
• -150 relations with Austria
• -150 relations with Russia
• -150 relations with Prussia
• +150 relations with Poland
• Centralization +3
• +500

Lithuania — Not random

Conditions

• The following must not occur:
  • Lithuania is a vassal of Poland

Triggered by

Action A of 3460 - Royal Reaction on the Polish Librum Veto for Lithuania

Description

In a drive towards Warszawa he was bogged down by excellent Polish Generalcy while his own Szlachta rebelled. Isolated with his army in Czersk he struck a deal with the Polish king to leave Poland immediately if the Polish king would refuse to accept the Lithuanian throne from the rebels up North. It was a not too glorious retreat and he was considering himself defeated. The Szlachta had dethroned Aleksandras, but was compromised by the fact that the Polish king refused to have anything to do with the traitors. Not all the Szlachta was against Aleksandras and upon his return another army joined him. Together they smashed the rebel forces and executed the traitors. These events resulted in a deep-set foreign policy in Lithuania to always support the Polish kings against their internal foes, but never to meddle without being asked.

Actions

A. Try to buy the Magnates off

• -1200
• Global revolt risk +3 for 24 months
• Stability +1

B. Let war come to their homes

• Global revolt risk +6 for 80 months
• A random province revolts
• A different random province revolts
• A different random province revolts
• Fortress level in a random province -1
• Fortress level in a different random province -1