Saxony — Not random

Conditions

• Austria exists
• At least one of the following must occur:
  • State religion is protestant
  • State religion is reformed

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

Description

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

Actions

A. Give it your support

• +100 relations with France
• +100 relations with England
• +150 relations with Brandenburg
• +150 relations with Brunswick
• +150 relations with Hesse
• +150 relations with Palatinate
• +150 relations with Baden
• +150 relations with Würzburg
• +100 relations with Cleves
• +50 relations with Cologne
• +50 relations with Bavaria
• -100 relations with Papal States
• -100 relations with Spain
• -150 relations with Austria

B. Ignore it

• -100 relations with Brandenburg
• -100 relations with Brunswick
• -100 relations with Hesse
• -100 relations with Palatinate
• -100 relations with Baden
• -100 relations with Würzburg
• +50 relations with Austria

Saxony — Not random

Conditions

• At least one of the following must occur:
  • State religion is protestant
  • State religion is reformed

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

Description

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

Actions

A. Prepare to Join

• +100 relations with France
• +150 relations with Brandenburg
• +150 relations with Brunswick
• +150 relations with Hesse
• +150 relations with Palatinate
• +150 relations with Baden
• +150 relations with Würzburg
• +150 relations with Holstein
• +100 relations with Cleves
• +50 relations with Cologne
• +50 relations with Bavaria
• -100 relations with Papal States
• -100 relations with Spain
• -150 relations with Austria

B. Stay Neutral

• -100 relations with Brandenburg
• -100 relations with Brunswick
• -100 relations with Hesse
• -100 relations with Palatinate
• -100 relations with Baden
• -100 relations with Würzburg
• +50 relations with Austria

Saxony — Not random

Conditions

• At least one of the following must occur:
  • State religion is catholic
  • State religion is counterreform

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

Description

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

Actions

A. Prepare to Join

• -100 relations with France
• -150 relations with Brandenburg
• -150 relations with Brunswick
• -150 relations with Hesse
• -150 relations with Palatinate
• -150 relations with Baden
• -150 relations with Würzburg
• -150 relations with Holstein
• +50 relations with Cleves
• +100 relations with Cologne
• +100 relations with Bavaria
• +100 relations with Papal States
• +100 relations with Spain
• +150 relations with Austria

B. Stay Neutral

• +50 relations with Brandenburg
• +50 relations with Brunswick
• +50 relations with Hesse
• +50 relations with Palatinate
• +50 relations with Baden
• +50 relations with Würzburg
• -50 relations with Bavaria
• -50 relations with Cleves
• -50 relations with Cologne
• -100 relations with Austria

Saxony — Not random

Conditions

• Poland is a vassal of Saxony
• 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 year 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 Stanislaus 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 Poland
• +15000 infantry in a random province
• +3000 cavalry in the same province
• +10 artillery in the same province
• Stability -1

B. Let the Poles meet the Elephant first

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Sweden for 36 months
• -100 relations with Sweden
• +50 relations with Denmark
• -150 relations with Russia
• +50 relations with Poland
• Stability +1

Saxony — Not random

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

Description

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

Actions

A. Anti-Habsburg

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

B. Neutral

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

C. Pro-Habsburg

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

Saxony — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 3501 - The Return of August the Strong for Poland

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. I am back!

• Gain Poland as vassals
• +150 relations with Poland
• Stability +2
• Gain an alliance with Poland

Saxony — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 3486 - The Polish Succession of 1697 for Poland

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, Francois Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, and Friedrich Augustus Wettin, Elector of Saxony. Jakub Sobieski was in Silesia at the time and was unlucky enough to be arrested by Saxon troops. On 37th June 1697 the Szlachta assembled on the election field voted overwhelmingly for the Prince de Conti and the Primate proclaimed him king. On the same evening a small group of malcontents 'elected' Friedrich Augustus, who marched into Poland at the head of a Saxon army. On September 15th, as the Prince de Conti, escorted by a French squadron under Jean Bart, was sailing through the Sound, Friedrich Augustus was crowned in Kraków by the Bishop of Kujavia as Augustus II of Poland. At the end of the month the Prince of Conti came ashore only to discover that he had been pipped at the post. His supporters were not keen to start a civil war, so he re-embarked and sailed back to France.

Actions

A. The Wettin Dynasty in Poland

• Gain Poland as vassals
• +200 victory points
• +100 relations with Poland
• -100 relations with France
• +100 relations with Russia
• Stability +2
• Centralization +2
• Gain an alliance with Poland

Saxony — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 3495 - The Polish Succession of 1733 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, Stanislaus Leszinski and his opponent, August III of Saxony, supported by Austria and Russia. The Sejm finally agreed on Stanislaus, but this was rejected by Austria and Russia starting the war of Polish Succession. The war ended with August III on the Polish throne. My Lord you have been elected!

Actions

A. Risk Major War to get you Kingdom

• Event 3429 - The Polish Succession of 1733 for Russia is triggered immediately
• Event 3204 - The Polish Succession of 1733 for Austria is triggered immediately
• Gain a royal marriage with Poland
• Gain an alliance with Poland
• Gain Poland as vassals
• +100 relations with Poland
• +200 relations with Russia
• +150 relations with Austria
• -150 relations with France
• +100 relations with Prussia
• -100 relations with Sweden
• Stability +1

B. Back down

• Event 3487 - Friedrich Augustus Wettin backs down! for Poland is triggered immediately
• -100 relations with Poland
• -100 relations with Russia
• -100 relations with Austria
• +150 relations with France
• -100 relations with Prussia
• +100 relations with Sweden
• Stability -2

Saxony — Not random

Triggered by

Action B of 3495 - The Polish Succession of 1733 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 Seym was unable to agree between the French Candidate, Stanislaus Leszinski and his opponent, August III of Saxony, supported by Austria and Russia. The Sejm finally agreed on Stanislaus, but this was rejected by Austria and Russia starting the war of Polish Succession. The war ended with August III on the Polish throne. My Lord the evil Stanislaus have been elected!

Actions

A. I want revenge

• Event 3429 - The Polish Succession of 1733 for Russia is triggered immediately
• Event 3204 - The Polish Succession of 1733 for Austria is triggered immediately
• Event 3528 - The Polish Succession of 1733 for Prussia is triggered immediately
• +100 relations with Poland
• +200 relations with Russia
• +150 relations with Austria
• -150 relations with France
• +100 relations with Prussia
• -100 relations with Sweden
• Stability +1

B. Let's listen to some poetry instead

• -100 relations with Poland
• -100 relations with Russia
• -100 relations with Austria
• +150 relations with France
• -100 relations with Prussia
• +100 relations with Sweden
• Stability +3