Poland — Not random

Conditions

• Aristocracy is at 7 or higher
• None of the following must occur:
  • Centralization is at 5 or higher

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1423
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1428)

Description

In 1425 King Kazimierz IV had to grant wide concessions to the Szlachta to get his son elected as his heir on the throne. The principle that he had to accept was the Neninem Captivabimus, giving the nobility legal protection against random arresting by the king. On paper it looked decent but the principle was forged in a way that made nearly any arresting impossible. A nobleman's personal freedom was as large as a King's. The accepting of the principle also leads to more concessions from Kazimierz which decreased Royal Power further.

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 +6 for 12 months
• Stability -1

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• Aristocracy is at 7 or higher
• None of the following must occur:
  • Centralization is at 5 or higher

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1452
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1457)

Description

After the concessions to the Nobility in 1425 and during the Thirteen Years War Kazimierz IV was again forced to new concessions. To be able to raise troops, among them a lot of mercenaries, the king needed money from the Szlachta. In an effort to solve the monarchy's pressing problems he had to accept the Nieszawa Privileges implying that the Nobility had the right to hold local Conventiones Particulares, without which no troops could be raised and no taxes extracted. In this way the Nobility got an efficient and powerful organization with a joint mutual interest, and power of the military and the taxation legislative procedure.

Actions

A. Accept the Conventions

• -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
• -10 national manpower
• Stability +2
• Danzig becomes a center of trade
• Center of trade in Livland closes

B. Weaken the Conventions

• -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 +6 for 12 months
• Stability -1
• Danzig becomes a center of trade
• Center of trade in Livland closes

C. Refuse to sign it and defy the Magnates

• +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 -2
• Centralization +2
• Serfdom -2
• Lose 5000 troops in a random province
• Lose 5000 troops in a different random province
• Lose 5000 troops in a different random province
• Global revolt risk +6 for 12 months
• Stability -6

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• Aristocracy is at 7 or higher
• None of the following must occur:
  • Centralization is at 5 or higher

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1495
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1498)

Description

Under Jan Olbracht, the son of Kazimierz IV, the policy of giving concessions to the Nobility continued. In 1496 the Statute of Piotrkow was instituted. It implied that serfdom was strengthened and accepted in law. It forbade all workers to move from their villages, except one every year. It later was extended with a work duty of six days a week. At this point the peasants of Poland had lost not only all power, but also their freedom. The power lay in the hands of the Nobility.

Actions

A. Enact

• Serfdom +3
• Centralization -2
• Innovativeness -2
• Mercantilism +3
• Stability +2

B. Enact a mild variant

• Serfdom +2
• Centralization -2
• Innovativeness -1
• Mercantilism +1
• Stability +1

C. Refuse to enact

• Serfdom -1
• Centralization -1
• Innovativeness +1
• Mercantilism -2
• Stability -1
• Global revolt risk +2 for 24 months

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• Aristocracy is at 7 or higher
• None of the following must occur:
  • Centralization is at 5 or higher

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1505
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1506)

Description

In 1505 with the creation of the Constitution of Radom, the power of the Nobility was institutionalized. The Constitution confirmed the political primacy of the Sejm and the law of Nihil Novo deprived the Monarchy the right to pass laws without the compliance of the Sejm. It also restricted the power of the governmental officials. The King still held the power to call the Sejm.

Actions

A. Accept the power of the Sejm

• Aristocracy +2
• Centralization -2
• Land +2
• Offensive Doctrine -3
• -20 national manpower
• Stability +2

B. Limit the power of the Sejm

• Aristocracy +1
• Centralization -1
• Land -1
• Offensive Doctrine -1
• -10 national manpower
• Stability -1

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• Own Masovia

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1525
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1596)

Description

The Duchy of Masovia had long been ruled by a line of the Piast Dynasty, but because of the power of Poland she most often followed the suggestions of Polish foreign policy. In 1525 the last Piast ruler died and the Polish crown inherited Masovia. Exactly what would be done with the lands was not clear, but in the end it became a Royal fief. And later the new Polish capital would be placed in the in 1525 sleepy hamlet of Warszawa.

Actions

A. Make it a personal royal fiefdom

• +3 base tax value in Masovia
• Stability -1
• +200

B. Give it piecemeal to different Magnates

• Aristocracy +1
• -3 base tax value in Masovia
• Stability +3
• Gain Goods Manufactory in a random province

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• None of the following must occur:
  • Lithuania exists
• Own Masovia

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1570
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1580)

Description

As the Act of Union-'Rzeczpospolita Polska' was instituted in 1569 and the united Seym moved to the small town of Warszawa it did not take long until it was also made a Royal capital. With this change the centre point for Polish attention was moved North and East.

Actions

A. Let move the Capital to Warszawa

• Move capital to Masovia
• Land tech investment: +1000
• Infrastructure tech investment: +1000
• Trade tech investment: +500
• Stability +1

B. Let Kraków stay Capital

• Land tech investment: +500
• Infrastructure tech investment: +500
• Trade tech investment: +1000
• +150 relations with Austria
• Stability +3

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• None of the following must occur:
  • Centralization is at 7 or higher

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1573
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1574)

Description

In 1572 the Jagellon Dynasty was extinct and a new king was to elected. His name was Henri de Anjou. On his election he was forced to sign what have later been called the Henrykian Articles, which rectified that Poland was an elective monarchy from onwards. He also signed the Pacta Conventa, which was a formal contract between the elected monarch and the Seym. In practice the monarch lost all power over his country. He had no power over governmental officials and he had a mere 3000 men strong Royal Army. To get anything extra he had to beg the Seym to authorize. At this moment Poland effectively stopped being a monarchy, as the monarch was a mere figure head, and instead a true Aristocracy.

Actions

A. There is nothing we can do my King

• -20 national manpower
• -1200
• Aristocracy +3
• Centralization -3
• Land +2
• Quality +3
• Stability +2

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• Event 3480 - The Pact Conventa and the Henrykian Articles for Poland has already occurred

Will happen within 0 days of January 2, 1575
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1590)

Description

Since the issuing of the Henrykian Articles and the Pacta Conventa the king had very little power on his own. If he was to make policies, of war for example, he had to have the consent of the Seym. Sometimes kings tried to drag the country into conflict and thus force the Seym to comply out of necessity or building a domestic political coalition where changing tit for tat. But often the Seym plainly said no.

Actions

A. Ok

• -10 national manpower
• Stability +1

B. Go behind their backs

• -5 national manpower
• -100
• Stability -1

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• Event 3480 - The Pact Conventa and the Henrykian Articles for Poland has already occurred

Will happen within 0 days of January 2, 1590
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1605)

Description

Since the issuing of the Henrykian Articles and the Pacta Conventa the king had very little power on his own. If he was to make policies, of war for example, he had to have the consent of the Seym. Sometimes kings tried to drag the country into conflict and thus force the Seym to comply out of necessity or building a domestic political coalition where changing tit for tat. But often the Seym plainly said no.

Actions

A. Ok

• -10 national manpower
• Stability +1

B. Go behind their backs

• -5 national manpower
• -100
• Stability -1

Poland — Not random

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1607
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1608)

Description

Zygmunt III was the son of King Johan III of Sweden. His father was a man that ruled a staunch Protestant country, but with a personal leaning toward Catholicism. Zygmunt was brought up by Jesuits and preferred their company. Religion was as important to him as politics and one of his great obsessions was to make Catholicism the State-religion of Poland. This was perhaps the most impossible task a man, even if king, to accomplish in Poland. The Freedom of religion and the ideological principle of religious tolerance was the fundament of Polish society. Zygmunt though strong willed and stubborn tried. He of course had the whole country against him and failed. These acts also made him many enemies, which would stop him from reforming the government and strengthen Royal power in the first decade of the 17th century.

Actions

A. Religious Freedom won the day

• Innovativeness +2
• Centralization -2
• -50 relations with Austria
• -50 relations with Spain
• -100 relations with Papal States
• Stability -1

B. The Catholic faith is the first among equals

• Change religion to catholic
• Innovativeness +1
• Centralization -1
• +70 relations with Austria
• +70 relations with Spain
• +70 relations with Papal States
• Stability -1

C. Hail the Jesuit King!

• Change religion to counterreform
• Innovativeness -5
• Centralization +3
• +150 relations with Austria
• +150 relations with Spain
• +150 relations with Papal States
• Gain a royal marriage with Austria
• Gain a royal marriage with Spain
• Gain a royal marriage with Papal States
• Stability -3
• Global revolt risk +12 for 48 months

Poland — Not random

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1607
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1611)

Description

In the early 17th century Poland was one of the mightiest countries in the world, yet she had great problems. The trade and technical production of Eastern Europe was based along the Baltic Coast. There lay the future of the next major power in the area. The King saw this and tried to improve Polish position in these areas, but the Szlachta was not remotely interested. Her interests lay in the Ukraine and the Wild lands where the Magnates could rule armies of serfs on the vast agricultural production plants. This was the first disagreement between King Zygmunt III and the Nobility. Another one was the matter of the religious freedom. The king never stopped working for making the Catholic faith the foremost religion in the country. However he was quite unsuccessful. The last disagreement was the about Royal power. Zygmunt was the grandson of the strong Swedish king Gustavus Wasa and he worked for absolutism. Zygmunt fought an uneven fight, but his struggle irritated the Poles so much that his reputation is tarnished to this very day. He also managed to upset people with his undiplomatic efforts to increase his power and because of that the Zebrzydowski rebellion stopped his effort for good.

Actions

A. Fight a bitter but peaceful conflict

• Event 3740 - The Sejm refuse to allow the mobilization of more troops for Poland will never fire
• Aristocracy -1
• Centralization +1
• Global revolt risk +1 for 120 months

B. Resign completely and read theological books instead

• Aristocracy +2
• Centralization -2
• Global revolt risk -2 for 120 months
• Stability +3

C. Wage a war of extermination on the Nobility

• Event 3740 - The Sejm refuse to allow the mobilization of more troops for Poland will never fire
• Event 3741 - The Sejm refuse to allow the mobilization of more troops for Poland will never fire
• Aristocracy -6
• Centralization +3
• Global revolt risk +5 for 240 months
• Stability -1

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• None of the following must occur:
  • Lithuania exists

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1609
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1610)
unless prevented by
Action B of 3414 - The Time of Trouble for Russia

Description

The Time of Troubles in Russia was a great triangular drama, between Poles and Swedes and of course, Russians in the Middle. Poland had since the outbreak supported the different False Dimitrijs, but in 1609 a Russian Boyar embassy arrived in Warszawa and proposed to make Zygmunt III:s eldest son, Wladyslav, the new Tsar of Russia. This was a great and interesting opportunity and with a completely different father, Wladyslaw might have brought the Wasa Dynasty on the Russian throne. However, one of the prerequisites was that Wladyslaw converted to the Orthodox faith something that was completely unthinkable for his father, the Jesuit-King. Instead the refusal made that faction of Boyars rally around a new candidate and Zygmunt had to declare war on Russia to be able to meddle in that muddy pound.

Actions

A. Vladimir Wasa, Czar of all Russians

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Russia for 6 months
• -150 relations with Russia
• -100 relations with Sweden

B. No, we will not meddle in their Civil War

• -100 relations with Russia
• Stability +1
• +50 relations with Sweden

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• Event 3480 - The Pact Conventa and the Henrykian Articles for Poland has already occurred

Will happen within 0 days of January 2, 1611
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1630)
unless prevented by
Action A, C of 3481 - The Struggle for Royal Power for Poland

Description

Since the issuing of the Henrykian Articles and the Pacta Conventa the king had very little power on his own. If he was to make policies, of war for example, he had to have the consent of the Seym. Sometimes kings tried to drag the country into conflict and thus force the Seym to comply out of necessity or building a domestic political coalition where changing tit for tat. But often the Seym plainly said no.

Actions

A. Ok

• -10 national manpower
• Stability +1

B. Go behind their backs

• -5 national manpower
• -100
• Stability -1

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• Event 3480 - The Pact Conventa and the Henrykian Articles for Poland has already occurred

Will happen within 0 days of January 2, 1631
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1651)
unless prevented by
Action C of 3481 - The Struggle for Royal Power for Poland

Description

Since the issuing of the Henrykian Articles and the Pacta Conventa the king had very little power on his own. If he was to make policies, of war for example, he had to have the consent of the Seym. Sometimes kings tried to drag the country into conflict and thus force the Seym to comply out of necessity or building a domestic political coalition where changing tit for tat. But often the Seym plainly said no.

Actions

A. Ok

• -10 national manpower
• Stability +1

B. Go behind their backs

• -5 national manpower
• -100
• Stability -1

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• Aristocracy is at 7 or higher

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

The political and economic disunity of the Szlachta and the deluge was the most important social factors behind the creation and implementation of the Librum Veto in 1652. It was on one hand a guarantee that decisions where decided unanimously and on the other hand a safeguard for the personal freedom of the individual nobleman. However for Poland as a country it was disastrous and one among a half dozen reason for the demise of the country in 1795. One single NO vote in the Seym could dissolve the Seym and paralyze decision-making in the country. It was also used frequently in the lesser Seyms, the seymiki, of which there were over 70 in Poland. The Magnates that had detronized the Executive Power had now also detronized the Legislative Power.

Actions

A. This country is now a true Aristocracy

• -1200
• Stability +1
• Monarch's diplomatic skill -5 for 600 months
• Aristocracy +2
• Centralization -2
• Mercantilism +2
• Serfdom +2
• Quality -5

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Event 3482 - Liberum Veto in Poland for Poland has already occurred
  • Event 3483 - Liberum Veto in Poland for Poland has already occurred

Will happen within 0 days of January 2, 1653
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1680)
unless prevented by
Action B of 3485 - The Sobieskian Army Reforms for Poland

Description

The Veto itself was merely the most obvious symptom of a political disease that went far deeper. The first veto was not repeated for seventeen years, the second not for another ten. Then it became endemic in parliamentary life. The right to cast a veto grew into fetish, particularly among the minor Szlachta who saw it as a symbol of their personal involvement in the Commonwealth, as well as the ultimate guarantee of their freedoms. That the king viewed it differently is obvious. One should know that policy-making in Poland was not frozen because of the power of the veto. The King had to create Grand Compromises to ensure an at least acceptable outcome. However, as the Polish society slowly lost its consensus it was harder and harder go reach a compromise. It was especially cumbersome when planning and scheming had been going on for many months and suddenly in the last minute of passing the proposal in the Seym. Someone rose and threw a Veto...

Actions

A. Ok

• -10 national manpower
• Stability +1

B. Go behind their backs

• -5 national manpower
• -100
• Stability -1

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• None of the following must occur:
  • Event 3482 - Liberum Veto in Poland for Poland has already occurred
• Aristocracy is at 9 or higher

Will happen within 0 days of January 3, 1653
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1772)

Description

The political and economic disunity of the Szlachta and the deluge was the most important social factors behind the creation and implementation of the Librum Veto in 1652. It was on one hand a guarantee that decisions where decided unanimously and on the other hand a safeguard for the personal freedom of the individual nobleman. However for Poland as a country it was disastrous and one among a half dozen reason for the demise of the country in 1795. One single NO vote in the Seym could dissolve the Seym and paralyze decision-making in the country. It was also used frequently in the lesser Seyms, the seymiki, of which there were over 70 in Poland. The Magnates that had detronized the Executive Power had now also detronized the Legislative Power.

Actions

A. This country is now a true Aristocracy

• -1200
• Stability +1
• Monarch's diplomatic skill -5 for 600 months
• Aristocracy +2
• Centralization -2
• Mercantilism +2
• Serfdom +2
• Quality -5

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• Ottoman Empire exists

Will happen within 0 days of January 2, 1670
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1671)

Description

Poland and the Ottoman Empire came into conflict in the 1670's and 80's when the Cossacks in the Polish part of the divided Ukraine submitted to the Ottoman Empire and called for Tatar aid against Poland. Victories won by hetman Jan Sobieski only temporarily forestalled the threat, and in 1672 the Commonwealth faced a major invasion by the Ottoman Empire. The fall of the key border fortress Kamieniec Podolski was followed by the humiliating Peace of Buczacz. In 1683 Sobieski led a relief army to a Vienna besieged by the Ottomans and as supreme commander of the allied forces won a resounding victory that marked the beginning of Ottoman withdrawal from Europe.

Actions

A. We will defend Christendom

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Ottoman Empire for 36 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Crimea for 36 months
• -100 relations with Ottoman Empire
• -100 relations with Crimea
• +100 relations with Papal States
• +50 relations with Austria
• +100
• +5 national manpower
• Stability +1
• Event 3388 - Turko-Polish Tensions for Ottoman Empire is triggered immediately

Poland — Not random

Will happen within 0 days of January 2, 1672
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1681)

Description

When Jan Sobieski became king in 1672 he was already a renowned and glorified military leader. In fact he started out as a general an ended up as a king. His reform of the Polish army thus started long before he became king, but it was under his Royal leadership that the strong effects of the reforms made lasting impressions upon the map of history. The New Polish Army saved Vienna from the onslaught of the Ottomans and forever stopped their advance. Unfortunately in the long run it helped Austria more than it helped Poland.

Actions

A. Make a strict Army Reform only

• Land tech investment: +1200
• Monarch's military skill +3 for 80 months
• Quality +3
• +30 national manpower
• Fortress level in a random province +1
• Fortress level in a different random province +1
• Fortress level in a different random province +1
• Stability +3

B. Reform Army and undermine the power of the Sejm

• Land tech investment: +1200
• Monarch's military skill +3 for 80 months
• Quality +3
• +30 national manpower
• Fortress level in a random province +1
• Fortress level in a different random province +1
• Fortress level in a different random province +1
• Aristocracy -2
• Centralization +2
• Event 3742 - The Sejm veto all your policies for Poland will never fire
• Event 3744 - The Sejm veto all your policies for Poland will never fire

Poland — Not random

Will happen within 10 days of January 2, 1672
Checked again every 10 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1697)

Description

On 12 September 1683 an allied army under the leadership of King Jan Sobieski relieved Vienna from the besieging Ottomans. At that moment the king's name flew over Europe. In that very moment Jan Sobieski had such status and personal power coming from his very person that he could had ended the stagnation of Poland or at least he could have tried. Merely the different political climate during the earlier days of his reign is a proof of him being a very special monarch. He was never that limited by vetoes or articles as earlier monarchs, but in the end he chose a different path. He chose to continue the campaign against the Ottoman, a campaign he could not win decisively, while at the same time having to cope with growing dissent from magnates disliking this policy. When he stopped campaigning he suffered heavily from gallstones and he never managed to make the magnates forget that he was just one of them. He never managed to translate his popularity in the Szlachta, as whole, into concerted political action. If he instead had gone home after relieving Vienna and picked a fight with the magnates something completely different might have happened. Well who knows...?

Actions

A. No, it's too problematic to change the situation

• Stability +1
• Aristocracy +2
• Centralization -2
• Mercantilism +2
• Serfdom +2

B. Let us change this depressive situation

• Event 3443 - The Contest with Poland for Russia is triggered immediately
• Stability -4
• Aristocracy -3
• Centralization +3
• Mercantilism -3
• Serfdom -3

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Event 3482 - Liberum Veto in Poland for Poland has already occurred
  • Event 3483 - Liberum Veto in Poland for Poland has already occurred
• Event 3485 - The Sobieskian Army Reforms for Poland has already occurred

Will happen within 0 days of January 2, 1672
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1707)

Description

The Veto itself was merely the most obvious symptom of a political disease that went far deeper. The first veto was not repeated for seventeen years, the second not for another ten. Then it became endemic in parliamentary life. The right to cast a veto grew into fetish, particularly among the minor Szlachta who saw it as a symbol of their personal involvement in the Commonwealth, as well as the ultimate guarantee of their freedoms. That the king viewed it differently is obvious. One should know that policy-making in Poland was not frozen because of the power of the veto. The King had to create Grand Compromises to ensure an at least acceptable outcome. However, as the Polish society slowly lost its consensus it was harder and harder go reach a compromise. It was especially cumbersome when planning and scheming had been going on for many months and suddenly in the last minute of passing the proposal in the Seym. Someone rose and threw a Veto... Then again, sometimes the proposal actually passed.

Actions

A. Great!

• +10 national manpower
• +100
• Stability +2

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• Ottoman Empire exists

Will happen within 0 days of January 2, 1675
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1676)

Description

Poland and the Ottoman Empire came into conflict in the 1670's and 80's when the Cossacks in the Polish part of the divided Ukraine submitted to the Ottoman Empire and called for Tatar aid against Poland. Victories won by hetman Jan Sobieski only temporarily forestalled the threat, and in 1672 the Commonwealth faced a major invasion by the Ottoman Empire. The fall of the key border fortress Kamieniec Podolski was followed by the humiliating Peace of Buczacz. In 1683 Sobieski led a relief army to a Vienna besieged by the Ottomans and as supreme commander of the allied forces won a resounding victory that marked the beginning of Ottoman withdrawal from Europe.

Actions

A. We will defend Christendom

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Ottoman Empire for 36 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Crimea for 36 months
• -100 relations with Ottoman Empire
• -100 relations with Crimea
• +100 relations with Papal States
• +50 relations with Austria
• +100
• +5 national manpower
• Stability +1
• Event 3389 - Turko-Polish Tensions for Ottoman Empire is triggered immediately

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• Ottoman Empire exists

Will happen within 0 days of January 2, 1680
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1681)

Description

Poland and the Ottoman Empire came into conflict in the 1670's and 80's when the Cossacks in the Polish part of the divided Ukraine submitted to the Ottoman Empire and called for Tatar aid against Poland. Victories won by hetman Jan Sobieski only temporarily forestalled the threat, and in 1672 the Commonwealth faced a major invasion by the Ottoman Empire. The fall of the key border fortress Kamieniec Podolski was followed by the humiliating Peace of Buczacz. In 1683 Sobieski led a relief army to a Vienna besieged by the Ottomans and as supreme commander of the allied forces won a resounding victory that marked the beginning of Ottoman withdrawal from Europe.

Actions

A. We will defend Christendom

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Ottoman Empire for 36 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Crimea for 36 months
• -100 relations with Ottoman Empire
• -100 relations with Crimea
• +150 relations with Papal States
• +150 relations with Austria
• +200
• +10 national manpower
• Stability +2
• Event 3390 - Turko-Polish Tensions for Ottoman Empire is triggered immediately

Poland — Not random

Will happen within 15 days of September 16, 1696
Checked again every 15 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after June 2, 1697)

Description

The political sickness of the Polish body manifested itself fully after the death of Jan III Sobieski in 1696. The election that followed was one of the most dismal episodes in Polish parliamentary history. The primary candidates were the king's son Jakub Sobieski

Actions

A. Friedrich Augustus Wettin

• Event 3627 - The Polish Succession of 1697 for Saxony is triggered immediately
• Stability -2
• Global revolt risk +2 for 12 months
• Lose 5000 troops in a random province
• Lose 5000 troops in a different random province
• Lose 5000 troops in a different random province
• +100 relations with Saxony
• -100 relations with France
• Gain a royal marriage with Saxony
• Centralization -2
• Land -5

B. Francois Louis de Bourbon

• Event 3734 - The Polish Succession of 1697 for France is triggered immediately
• Monarch Franciszek I Ludwik becomes active
• Monarch Ludwik I Armand becomes active
• Monarch Jan III Sobieski will never rule
• Monarch August II Sas will never rule
• Stability -4
• Global revolt risk +6 for 12 months
• Lose 5000 troops in a random province
• Lose 5000 troops in a different random province
• Lose 5000 troops in a different random province
• -100 relations with Saxony
• +100 relations with France
• Gain a royal marriage with France
• Centralization -3
• Land -3

C. Jakub Sobieski

• Monarch Jakub I Sobieski becomes active
• Monarch Jan IV Sobieski becomes active
• Monarch Jan III Sobieski will never rule
• Monarch August II Sas will never rule
• Event 3495 - The Polish Succession of 1733 for Poland will never fire
• Event 3242 - The Dethronement of August the Strong for Sweden will never fire
• Stability +2
• Global revolt risk +3 for 12 months
• Lose 10000 troops in a random province
• Lose 10000 troops in a different random province
• Lose 10000 troops in a different random province
• -150 relations with Saxony
• -150 relations with France
• -150 relations with Russia
• Centralization +1
• Land +1

Poland — Not random

Will happen within 10 days of January 3, 1697
Checked again every 10 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1717)

Description

In 1697 Friedrich Augustus II became king of Poland. His reputation was never good. He was a German and because of his inabilities to win a war he himself had started he is considered a rather bad Polish king. However, when Friedrich Augustus became king he had a plan. He was not a stupid man, and he intended to turn the Commonwealth into a centralized monarchical state. He was a child of the same ideas as his contemporaries in Berlin, Hannover and München, and he needed a war to accomplish it. Like Sobieski, he saw war as the surest way to gain prestige and a free hand to carry out his plan. Now Friedrich Augustus made certain mistakes. He and his allies underestimated the ease with which they would smash the eighteen year old monarch of Sweden and secondly Friedrich August was no Sobieskian General. The failure of the war and his lost prestige from being a lousy soldier and having been forced to a humiliating abdication omitted every chance to reform anything. Instead he ruined any chance for monarchism in Poland and his return was with the arrivals of Russian bayonets. However... had he won the war and Poland had been a winner while Russia had become rather mauled then his position would have been different. Instead of buying art for his castles in Dresden he might very well have used that prestige and military power with boldness and brute force to accomplish the impossible...

Actions

A. No, it's too problematic to change the situation

• Stability +1
• Aristocracy +2
• Centralization -2
• Mercantilism +2
• Serfdom +2

B. Let us change this depressive situation

• Event 3442 - The Silent Sejm of Poland for Russia is triggered immediately
• Stability -4
• Aristocracy -3
• Centralization +3
• Mercantilism -3
• Serfdom -3

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• Saxony is a vassal of Poland
• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Sweden owns Livland
  • Sweden owns Kurland
  • Sweden owns Memel
  • Sweden owns Prussia
  • Sweden owns Danzig
  • Sweden owns Poznan
  • Sweden owns Wielkopolska
  • Sweden owns Sachsen
  • Sweden owns Anhalt

Will happen within 0 days of June 16, 1697
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 2, 1700)

Description

In 1697, the 15 years old Charles XII ascended the Swedish throne. Seeing the opportunity, the Russian Czar Peter I allied with Denmark and Poland-Saxony in 1699. However, with British and Dutch naval assistance, Charles XII landed on Zealand and promptly defeated the Danes, then moved to Estland where his badly outnumbered Swedes (1 to 5) won a crushing victory over the Russians. Instead of finishing the Russians, Charles moved against August II of Poland-Saxony and drove him out of Poland in 1704 (having the pro-Swedish Stanislas Leszinski elected King), then subjugating Saxony in 1706. While the Russians started the construction of St-Petersburg (1703) and rebuilt their armies, they also took parts of Estland (1704-1706). Charles then decided to march to Moscow via the Ukraine where the Cossacks under Mazeppa had again risen in revolt (1708). The harsh winter and Russian raids decimated his army and he was finally beaten at the battle of Poltava in 1709. The wounded king escaped to the Ottomans. The Russians were encircled by the Ottomans on the Prut River, but Peter succeeded through bribery to obtain a safe conduct in exchange for Azov. While Charles was still exiled in Turkey, Russian, Danish, Hanoverian and even Prussian troops captured most of the Swedish territory around the Baltic. Having emerged from Turkish internment, Charles got killed in 1718 in front of the Norwegian fortress of Frederickshald. The peace treaties that followed Sweden lost most of her Baltic empire.

Actions

A. Advance!

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Sweden for 36 months
• -150 relations with Sweden
• +150 relations with Denmark
• +150 relations with Russia
• +200 relations with Saxony
• +20000 infantry in a random province
• +5000 cavalry in the same province
• +10 artillery in the same province
• Stability -1

B. Stay calm for a while

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Sweden for 36 months
• -100 relations with Sweden
• +50 relations with Denmark
• -100 relations with Russia
• +200 relations with Saxony
• Stability +1

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• Event 3492 - The Dethronement of August the Strong for Poland has already occurred
• None of the following must occur:
  • Poland is a vassal of Sweden

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1700
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 31, 1720)

Description

Stanislaus Leszczynski had been elected Polish king in the light of the supreme power of Sweden in Eastern Europe. When that supremacy was lost on the Steppes of Russia in 1709, Russia picked up the mantle of supremacy. In the light of these new circumstances the Polish Szlachta easily found consensus for returning Friedrich Augustus II to the throne.

Actions

A. August is reinstalled

• Monarch August II Sas becomes active
• Stability +1
• +150 relations with Saxony
• Gain a royal marriage with Saxony
• -1000
• Event 3737 - August the Strong returns to the Throne of Poland for Saxony is triggered immediately

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Event 3482 - Liberum Veto in Poland for Poland has already occurred
  • Event 3483 - Liberum Veto in Poland for Poland has already occurred

Will happen within 0 days of January 2, 1708
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1730)
unless prevented by
Action B of 3485 - The Sobieskian Army Reforms for Poland

Description

The Veto itself was merely the most obvious symptom of a political disease that went far deeper. The first veto was not repeated for seventeen years, the second not for another ten. Then it became endemic in parliamentary life. The right to cast a veto grew into fetish, particularly among the minor Szlachta who saw it as a symbol of their personal involvement in the Commonwealth, as well as the ultimate guarantee of their freedoms. That the king viewed it differently is obvious. One should know that policy-making in Poland was not frozen because of the power of the veto. The King had to create Grand Compromises to ensure an at least acceptable outcome. However, as the Polish society slowly lost its consensus it was harder and harder go reach a compromise. It was especially cumbersome when planning and scheming had been going on for many months and suddenly in the last minute of passing the proposal in the Seym. Someone rose and threw a Veto...

Actions

A. Ok

• -10 national manpower
• Stability +1

B. Go behind their backs

• -5 national manpower
• -100
• Stability -1

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• None of the following must occur:
  • Lithuania exists

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 prey…prey…prey...

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

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• Courland exists

Will happen within 0 days of January 14, 1726
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 15, 1726)

Description

The death of the last Duke of Kurland, Frederick William, in 1711, left no heirs to the Duchy except the weak and ill Ferdinand, and a lot of contenders in Russia and Poland. In 1726, the Polish Sejm managed to impose Maurice of Saxony, the bastard son of the current Polish King, as Duke, but only to change her mind and ask his withdrawal. At the same time, Russia was pushing for her own candidate, the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, son-in-law of the Czarina Catherine I. After much bribing, negotiation and behind the scene diplomacy, Maurice was summoned to either leave or suffer war. It started in 1727, with Russia firmly committed and sending 8,000 troops to conquer the Duchy within 8 days. The war did not last long enough to embrace all of Europe and Maurice fled to France where he then had a brilliant military career.

Actions

A. Back down

• Stability +1
• +150 relations with Russia

B. Fight for Maurice

• Kurland will be considered a claim province
• -150 relations with Russia
• +150 relations with Courland
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Russia for 3 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Sweden for 3 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Prussia for 3 months
• Stability -2

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Event 3482 - Liberum Veto in Poland for Poland has already occurred
  • Event 3483 - Liberum Veto in Poland for Poland has already occurred

Will happen within 0 days of January 2, 1731
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1751)

Description

The Veto itself was merely the most obvious symptom of a political disease that went far deeper. The first veto was not repeated for seventeen years, the second not for another ten. Then it became endemic in parliamentary life. The right to cast a veto grew into fetish, particularly among the minor Szlachta who saw it as a symbol of their personal involvement in the Commonwealth, as well as the ultimate guarantee of their freedoms. That the king viewed it differently is obvious. One should know that policy-making in Poland was not frozen because of the power of the veto. The King had to create Grand Compromises to ensure an at least acceptable outcome. However, as the Polish society slowly lost its consensus it was harder and harder go reach a compromise. It was especially cumbersome when planning and scheming had been going on for many months and suddenly in the last minute of passing the proposal in the Seym. Someone rose and threw a Veto...

Actions

A. Ok

• -10 national manpower
• Stability +1

B. Go behind their backs

• -5 national manpower
• -100
• Stability -1

Poland — Not random

Will happen within 0 days of January 31, 1733
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after February 2, 1733)
unless prevented by
Action C of 3486 - The Polish Succession of 1697 for Poland

Description

In 1733, the death of August II prompted a new election for the Polish monarch. Due to the permanent practice of Liberum Veto and the ensuing constant bribery, the Polish Sejm was unable to agree between the French Candidate, Stanislas Leszinsky and his opponent, August III of Saxony, supported by Austria and Russia. The Sejm finally agreed on Stanislas, but this was rejected by Austria and Russia starting the war of Polish Succession. The war ended with August III on the Polish throne.

Actions

A. Friedrich Augustus Wettin

• Event 3628 - The Polish Succession of 1733 for Saxony is triggered immediately
• Event 3136 - The Polish Succession of 1733 for France is triggered immediately
• Stability -3
• Centralization -2
• Aristocracy +1
• Mercantilism +1
• Land -3

B. Stanislas Leczinski

• Event 3136 - The Polish Succession of 1733 for France is triggered immediately
• Event 3626 - The Polish Succession of 1733 for Saxony is triggered immediately
• Event 3632 - Habsburg Inheritance of Lothringen for Lorraine is triggered immediately
• Monarch Stanislaw I Leszczynski [2nd] becomes active
• Stability -4
• Centralization +2
• Aristocracy +1
• Mercantilism +1
• Land -1

Poland — Not random

Conditions

• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Event 3482 - Liberum Veto in Poland for Poland has already occurred
  • Event 3483 - Liberum Veto in Poland for Poland has already occurred

Will happen within 0 days of January 2, 1753
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1784)

Description

The Veto itself was merely the most obvious symptom of a political disease that went far deeper. The first veto was not repeated for seventeen years, the second not for another ten. Then it became endemic in parliamentary life. The right to cast a veto grew into fetish, particularly among the minor Szlachta who saw it as a symbol of their personal involvement in the Commonwealth, as well as the ultimate guarantee of their freedoms. That the king viewed it differently is obvious. One should know that policy-making in Poland was not frozen because of the power of the veto. The King had to create Grand Compromises to ensure an at least acceptable outcome. However, as the Polish society slowly lost its consensus it was harder and harder go reach a compromise. It was especially cumbersome when planning and scheming had been going on for many months and suddenly in the last minute of passing the proposal in the Seym. Someone rose and threw a Veto...

Actions

A. Ok

• -10 national manpower
• Stability +1

B. Go behind their backs

• -5 national manpower
• -100
• Stability -1

Poland — Not random

Will happen within 0 days of September 7, 1764
Checked again every 0 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after September 8, 1764)

Description

Stanislaus Poniatowski was a refined man and second son to the great General Poniatowski of the early 18th century. Stanislaus was a man of the enlightenment and early became interested in politics and diplomacy touring London, Amsterdam, Vienna, Paris and last St. Petersburg. There he was readily introduced to Tsaritsa Catherine the Great and became her lover. In 1764 when Poland needed a king, Catherine suggested her now ex-lover Stanislaus Poniatowski. That was a bad choice for Russia and a rather good one for Poland. Stanislaus knew the ways of Russian political mind and he was not subservient to the wishes of Moscow. However, the degeneration of Poland had gone so far that immediate reforms where necessary to stay independent, but on the other hand such reform most likely would draw attention in Moscow, Vienna and Berlin and it did. That reforms had just left the Seym when the enemy armies started to march. The Fear of a Resurrected Poland had brought her neighbors to action.

Actions

A. Reform as much as possible before Russia intervenes

• Break vassalization with Russia
• -150 relations with Russia
• -100 relations with Prussia
• -100 relations with Austria
• Aristocracy -2
• Centralization +3
• Mercantilism -2
• Serfdom -2
• Innovativeness +2
• -2% inflation
• Stability -1

B. Appease Russia and their Magnate faction

• +200 relations with Russia
• +3% inflation
• Aristocracy +2
• Centralization -3
• Mercantilism +2
• Serfdom +2
• Innovativeness -2
• Stability +3

Poland — Not random

Will happen within 10 days of September 11, 1764
Checked again every 10 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1772)

Description

After the ascending of Stanislaus Poniatowski on the Polish throne a feverish wave of reforms took place. In 1766 Chancellor Zamoyski laid before the Seym his project for constitutional reform which included the abolition of the Librum Veto. This elicited an immediate response from St Petersburg and Berlin, both of which threatened with war if it were not withdrawn and if the Confederated Seym was not immediately dissolved. The King and his supporters had little to do but comply trapped in Warszawa as they were. But people started to wake up from their 'Saxon slumber' and the Confederates refused to comply. At the same time some magnates wanted to get rid of the upstart Stanislaus and united with Russian forces under the young general Suvorov they fought and destroyed the Confederated troops. Thus the Effort to end stagnation brought the First Partition of Poland.

Actions

A. Let us change this depressive situation

• Event 3440 - The Partition of Poland for Russia is triggered immediately
• Event 3337 - The Partition of Poland for Austria is triggered immediately
• Event 3533 - The Partition of Poland for Prussia is triggered immediately
• Stability -3
• Aristocracy -4
• Centralization +4
• Mercantilism -4
• Serfdom -4

B. No, it's too problematic to change the situation

• Stability +1
• Aristocracy +2
• Centralization -2
• Mercantilism +2
• Serfdom +2

Poland — Not random

Will happen within 10 days of January 2, 1788
Checked again every 10 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1792)

Description

In 1787 King Stanislaus approached Catherine of Russia with a bargain. Poland will raise a substantial army and support Russia in her war with the Ottomans, and make flanking maneuvers against potential attacks from Prussia or Sweden. The move was smart as it would mean that the king would have an army that could defend the country from enemies abroad and within, but Catherine did not buy it. She preferred having Poland as a piece of no-mans-land in between her and Prussia and Austria. As this failed the king stood without a plan and a decent foreign policy. The next year members of the so-called 'Patriotic Party' took matters in their own hands in the Great Seym. It voted an increase of the army and vested control over it in a Seym Commission. It placed the conduct of foreign policy in the hands of another Seym Commission. It also abolished the Permanent Council that had governed the country since 1772 and imposed tax on incomes from lands, 10 percent for the Szlachta and 20 percent for the Church. In 1791 the king arrived from his isolation since the failure with Catherine and together with Ignacy Potocki and Hugo Kollataj he drafted the New Constitution. This became the first written Constitution in Europe and a satisfactory compromise between the republicanism of Potocki, the radicalism of Kollataj and the monarchism of the king. Again Catherine the Great reacted and as circumstances went against Poland peace was signed between the Ottomans and Russia and 89000 seasoned veterans now stood against the 37000 staunchly heroic, but no less, newly recruited Poles. No one helped Poland and the outcome was devastating. Thus the Effort to end stagnation brought the Second Partition of Poland.

Actions

A. Let us change this depressive situation

• Event 3441 - The Partition of Poland for Russia is triggered immediately
• Event 3338 - The Partition of Poland for Austria is triggered immediately
• Event 3534 - The Partition of Poland for Prussia is triggered immediately
• Stability -3
• Aristocracy -5
• Centralization +5
• Mercantilism -5
• Serfdom -5

B. No, it's too problematic to change the situation

• Stability +1
• Aristocracy +2
• Centralization -2
• Mercantilism +2
• Serfdom +2

Poland — Not random

Triggered by

Action B of 3628 - The Polish Succession of 1733 for Saxony

Description

The political sickness of the Polish body manifested itself fully after the death of Jan III Sobieski in 1696. The election that followed was one of the most dismal episodes in Polish parliamentary history. The primary candidates were the king's son Jakub Sobieski

Actions

A. Elect Stanislas Leczinski

• Event 3632 - Habsburg Inheritance of Lothringen for Lorraine is triggered immediately
• Monarch Stanislaw I Leszczynski [2nd] becomes active
• Stability +1
• Centralization +2

Poland — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 3516 - Hohenzollern Prussia become Polish Duchy for Prussia

Description

In 1525 during the religious turmoil of the Reformation one of the early converters to the new religion was the Teutonic Orders' Grandmaster from Brandenburg, Albrecht of Hohenzollern. Inspired by Luther he also decides to secularize the land areas under his control, Prussia, into a Protestant duchy. However, knowing that this would earn him the eternal enmity of his former Order he had to go for help with its greatest enemy, Poland-Lithuania. Thus he managed to pull through, but at the price of becoming a Polish Vassal.

Actions

A. Accept the New Vassal

• Gain Prussia as vassals
• -150 relations with Teutonic Order
• +50 relations with Prussia
• Gain Refinery in Danzig
• +5% inflation

B. Claim Ownership

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Prussia for 240 months
• -150 relations with Teutonic Order
• -200 relations with Prussia
• -250
• +2% inflation

Poland — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 3447 - The Act of Union with Poland for Lithuania

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 now existed 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 Respublica Polonie.

Actions

A. Enact the Union

• Flag graphics extension set to "LIT"
• Set country name to Poland-Lithuania
• Inherit the realms of Lithuania
• Stability +2
• lithuanian will become an accepted culture
• Centralization -1
• Welikia will be considered a national province
• Polotsk will be considered a national province
• Belarus will be considered a national province
• Smolensk will be considered a national province
• Kursk will be considered a national province
• Mozyr will be considered a national province
• Lithuania will be considered a national province
• Volyn will be considered a national province
• Chernigov will be considered a national province
• Ukraina will be considered a national province
• Jedisan will be considered a national province
• Vorones will be considered a national province
• Belgorod will be considered a national province
• Bogutjar will be considered a national province
• Donetsk will be considered a national province
• Poltava will be considered a national province
• Krementjug will be considered a national province
• Leader Radziwill Piorun becomes active
• Leader J.P. Sapieha becomes active
• Leader J.K. Chodkiewicz becomes active
• Leader K. Radziwill becomes active
• Leader P.J. Sapieha becomes active
• Leader W. Gosiewski becomes active
• Leader K.J. Sapieha becomes active
• Leader Michal Jan Pac becomes active
• Leader Michal Radziwill becomes active
• Leader A.M. Sapieha becomes active

B. Keep it a loose structure

• Gain Lithuania as vassals
• +100 relations with Lithuania
• Stability -1
• Centralization +1
• Aristocracy -1

Poland — Not random

Triggered by

Action B of 3447 - The Act of Union with Poland for Lithuania

Description

In 1569 discussions had been held and it was evident that many magnates wanted the joint force of Lithuanian and Polish Magnates as well as the Seyms of these countries to met at Lublin on the border of their realms and unanimously swear a new Act of Union. There now existed 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 would be a marriage of two partners, with only the slightest hint of the dominant position of Poland. 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 April 1569 Mikolaj had bribed and prodded his fellow magnates into following his plan. The lower Lithuanian Szlachta was considered immature and voted as their magnates did. So on 1st July the meeting took place in Lublin, but the Lithuanian Szlachta unanimously detested any attempt to create a Union. At the same time Mikolaj let himself be crowned King of Lithuania in Vilna and announced that if Poland did not accept that Lithuania went her own way then Lithuania would realize a Military Alliance with the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

Actions

A. Recollect the lost sheep

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Lithuania for 60 months
• -150 relations with Lithuania
• -150 relations with Russia
• Stability -2

B. Let them go in peace

• +150 relations with Lithuania
• +100 relations with Russia
• Gain Fine Arts Academy in Krakow
• Stability +1
• Global revolt risk +6 for 24 months
• Centralization +1
• Aristocracy -1

Poland — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 3242 - The Dethronement of August the Strong for Sweden

Description

For the Second War of the North, in 1700, Poland sided with Russia against Sweden. King August II (the Strong) was pitted against King Charles XII of Sweden for control of Poland. After a series of crushing defeats, including losing to the army of Charles XII at Narva when he outnumbered them 5 to 1, August was dethroned and Stanislaus Leczinski was crowned King of Poland in his place.

Actions

A. Dethrone August and install Stanislaus

• Monarch Stanislaw I Leszczynski [1st] becomes active
• +150 relations with Sweden
• Stability -3
• Global revolt risk +3 for 12 months

Poland — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 3620 - The Fate of the Teutonic Order for Teutonic Order

Description

Following Russian attacks in the 1550's, and out of collapse of the Teutonic Order, Master Gotthard Ketteler salvaged Kurland from the Order's territory as a secular duchy under Polish sovereignty. This vassalage brought Poland into conflict with Russia, allied with Denmark and started the 1563-1570 War of the Three Crowns against Sweden. At the 1582 armistice of Jan Zapolski, Russia was beaten, gave up Livland and Polotsk and Sweden won the Baltic province of Estland while Livland and Kurland remained under Polish control. My Lord, we have signed an Agreement with the Swedes over the former Teutonic Order. Shall we follow it to the letter or not?

Actions

A. Accept Agreement

• Gain Courland as vassals
• Livland will be considered a claim province
• Kurland will be considered a claim province
• +150 relations with Courland
• +100 relations with Sweden
• Stability +1

B. Only accept your part of the Agreement

• Gain Courland as vassals
• Ingermanland will be considered a claim province
• Estland will be considered a claim province
• Livland will be considered a claim province
• Kurland will be considered a claim province
• -100 relations with Courland
• -100 relations with Sweden
• Stability -2

Poland — Not random

Triggered by

Action B of 3620 - The Fate of the Teutonic Order for Teutonic Order

Description

Following Russian attacks in the 1550's, and out of collapse of the Teutonic Order, Master Gotthard Ketteler salvaged Kurland from the Order's territory as a secular duchy under Polish sovereignty. This vassalage brought Poland into conflict with Russia, allied with Denmark and started the 1563-1570 War of the Three Crowns against Sweden. At the 1582 armistice of Jan Zapolski, Russia was beaten, gave up Livland and Polotsk and Sweden won the Baltic province of Estland while Livland and Kurland remained under Polish control. My Lord, the Grandmaster has signed an Agreement with Russia and Denmark.

Actions

A. Defy the Agreement

• Livland will be considered a claim province
• Kurland will be considered a claim province
• -50 relations with Courland
• +150 relations with Sweden
• -150 relations with Russia
• -150 relations with Denmark
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Denmark for 60 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Russia for 60 months
• Stability -2

B. Accept the Agreement

• +150 relations with Courland
• -50 relations with Sweden
• +100 relations with Russia
• +100 relations with Denmark
• Stability +1
• +200

Poland — Not random

Triggered by

Action C of 3620 - The Fate of the Teutonic Order for Teutonic Order

Description

Following Russian attacks in the 1550's, and out of collapse of the Teutonic Order, Master Gotthard Ketteler salvaged Kurland from the Order's territory as a secular duchy under Polish sovereignty. This vassalage brought Poland into conflict with Russia, allied with Denmark and started the 1563-1570 War of the Three Crowns against Sweden. At the 1582 armistice of Jan Zapolski, Russia was beaten, gave up Livland and Polotsk and Sweden won the Baltic province of Estland while Livland and Kurland remained under Polish control. My Lord, the Grandmaster has announced that all his Knights have reverted to the true Catholic faith and will defend its territory until death comes.

Actions

A. Defy the Knights

• Livland will be considered a claim province
• Kurland will be considered a claim province
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Teutonic Order for 60 months
• Stability -2
• -150 relations with Teutonic Order
• +50 relations with Sweden
• +50 relations with Russia
• +50 relations with Denmark

B. Accept this Government

• Stability +1
• +200
• +150 relations with Teutonic Order
• -50 relations with Sweden
• -50 relations with Russia
• -50 relations with Denmark