The Corona Classic Ep. 2: The Second Wave (A nebulous Europa Universalis Game)

[cns - he/him/his]

i dont want the game to be ruined cause of me, if shrike cant make it ill continue

its just not that fun for me

nah bro like it wont ruin shit your own enjoyment is more important

 

[the last man]

not for long

real shit tho, we need somebody to play spain now else the game is pretty much busted; @Shrike u interested?

@Shrike please save us

John Shrike: Gamer for Hire

I'll take the job.

 

[A_cRaZeD_hObO]

John Shrike: Gamer for Hire

I'll take the job.

Sweden versus Spain, incoming

 

[Ond]

taking whacky recommendations for something new to play next session

Sakalava

 

[Mendel]

i dont want the game to be ruined cause of me, if shrike cant make it ill continue

its just not that fun for me currently

nah dont worry bro if u aint feelin it dw, it’s just spain left a power vacuum last game and let france (me) get too powerful

 

[Dallas]

bruh the new hegemony system is going to make the late game insane in the membrane

 

[uncle kev]

bruh the new hegemony system is going to make the late game insane in the membrane

damn I coulda been naval and economic with Netherlands

 

[A_cRaZeD_hObO]

bruh the new hegemony system is going to make the late game insane in the membrane

Check out the new papal mechanics too

Boooooinnnggg

 

[friendly]

wait did u cunts play tuesday as well?

 

[Dallas]

i am ready to game tonight

wait did u cunts play tuesday as well?

no we didnt

 

[uncle kev]

I hunger for gaming

 

[Dallas]

GAMERS ASSEMBLE

 

[keiiou]

 

[Deleted member 4425]

the ottomans have bankrolled half of europe, turkish bankers are the true winners of this game

 

[cns - he/him/his]

portugal got fuckng bodied and left

 

[Dallas]

THE SAGA - PART II

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Kejserliga Hertiggången av Sverige
IMPERIAL DUCHY OF SWEDEN
1532

GUSTAV VIII SJÖBLAD
-LIBERATOR OF SKÅNE-

♱

The final years of Gustav VIII's reign were uneventful. His atrocities committed on Gotland would haunt his court and he would become widely despised for his cruelty among his subjects. Ultimately, his ambition for his own kingdom presented itself as an overt lust for power. Fearful of growing Anglo hegemony, and pressured by the Austrian emperor, Gustav would renounce his crown as king and enter his lands and Baltic-Finnish territories into the Holy Roman Empire. The benefit from trade, stability and the chance to grow within a power bloc of central European states was too attractive for an increasingly restless kingdom.

Granted the status of Imperial Duchy, the minorities of the realm were increasingly persecuted - the Sami, the Finnish and, of course, Gotlandic Swedes (who were denied the right to own property or serve in public office).

Gustav VIII died in 1496 under mysterious circumstances. Historians believe he was the victim of a court conspiracy and had been poisoned.

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FREDRICK I SJÖBLAD
-EMPEROR OF THE ROMANS-​

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The time of Fredrick the Great marked a meteoric rise in the wealth and power of Sweden. Becoming Duke of the Imperial Duchy of Sweden in 1496, Fredrick was elevated to Holy Roman Emperor only two years after his ascension to the throne. Triggered by the lack of an Austrian heir, the election result would spell disaster for the Austrian Habsburgs - who had staked everything on a costly war of inheritance over Burgundy. Robbed of the imperial titles and line of succession, the Austria's grand web of control unraveled.

Now, Fredrick ruled over the greatest power in Europe - the Holy Roman Empire - and sought to renew ties to the former subjects who had fallen out of favour with the Habsburg court. Savoy was re-admitted, promising to return all of Italy to the empire. Disputes between the empire's interior were resolved without bloodshed. The reform of 1499 brought greater prosperity to all within the empire's lands.

To the east, Sweden's ally Muscovy stood as a friend, to the south was the steadfast Margraviate of Brandenburg, while in the west the French had fallen into a decade of religious wars and strife that saw their kingdom reduced to a British proxy.

Often distant to domestic affairs, Fredrick delegated much to Chancellor Von Ritter, a Prussian nobleman who organised much of the realm. It was Von Ritter who tutored and raised his first son, Felix, to become emperor himself one day. In 1504, Prince Felix was killed in a hunting accident. Paranoid by fears of continued retribution for the sins of his father, Fredrick dismissed many of his advisors, including his chancellor, fearing a conspiracy against him. He mourned for his son, but another heir was ready to take up the mantle, he hoped that his son Karl might have the strength to lead the realm - and live to see his coronation.

By 1506, a military intervention in the Batlic had secured the city of Riga. Fredrick planned for Riga to become a Swedish trade city and cultural centrepiece of his realm.

In the year 1509, the collapse of the Austrian realm was accelerating; Bohemia and Hungary were in open revolt against their Austrian masters, the Habsburgs were bankrupt and they requested any foreign support to ride with them against the rebels. Emperor Fredrick, knowing when a rival was no longer a threat, decided to intervene and traveled south with a host of 18,000. As they crossed through German lands, the King of Brandenburg sent an emissary to greet Fredrick and a secret meeting was held in the town of Magdeburg. In this meeting, the emissary made a request of Fredrick - that his intervention march south, but make no effort to relieve the Austrian forces. It was clear that Bohemian succession was in the interests of both kingdoms - a weakened Austria, a stronger Brandenburg.

And so it was that the Swedish-Austrian Intervention resulted in no actual battles. The force withdrew following the success of the separatist forces and returned to Sweden in 1510.

The Protestant Reformation, which had begun under Fredrick's reign, now crept its way through the empire - slowly, indeterminably, eroding the authority of Rome, and the religious authority of the emperor, who was ordained by the pope. Of course, this fiction was mere theatre at this stage - Fredrick had no intention of upholding an outdated idea of papal legitimacy. In his own court, Fredrick practiced a policy of tolerance, recruiting generals and advisors of different faiths. This eventually crept up on the imperial duchy as, by the year 1512, Reformed Protestantism, Calvinism, had spread among the Finnish territories and had now crossed the Baltic and established itself in Stockholm. Reformation was sweeping Fredrick's empire; with the primary defender of Catholicism, Austria, a shadow of its former glory, and his closest Prussian ally converting, the imperial duchy was left with limited options. To avert civil war and the possible breakup of his own realm, Fredrick chose country over empire and converted to Calvinism in 1514, renouncing his title as emperor.

Now, as just another imperial subject to the new emperor, a minor royal from a free city state, Fredrick was unbound from his imperial obligations; he annexed new Baltic lands and lavished his kingdom in new developments of churches, manufactories and regional courts. He personally oversaw a reform in Swedish law which recognised the Sami as subjects - not property, and ended serfdom of the Baltic slavs.

In 1519, Fredrick traveled to the Chapel of the Schloss, in Königsberg to attend the crowning of King Freidrich III, becoming Freidrich I of Prussia - joining his lands into one Prussian Kingdom.

Fredrick the Great died of old age in 1520.

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KARL XI SJÖBLAD
-LIBERATOR OF NORWAY-

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Immediately upon his ascension in 1521, Karl IX began his rule by looking to surpass his father's legacy. He wished to unify the crowns of Scandinavia, but first he would have to pry free the Wittelsbach hold over Norway. The War of Norwegian Liberation began in 1521, and with the support of the Prussian army from the south and the British navy in the straits, was quickly ended with the Treaty of Oslo - which granted Norwegian independence, placing a distant cousin of Karl onto the Norwegian throne.

In addition, several provinces were ceded to Sweden, as recognition for their support in liberating their lands from Danish tyrants.
Norway now exists as a fragile proxy kingdom - certain to one day be brought into Swedish control.

In 1526, acting on the advice of his councillors, Karl XI ended the punitive so-called "Danelaws" enacted by Gustav VII, the founder of the Swedish Kingdom. The Danish, who made up twenty percent of the realm's population, were granted the full rights of Swedish or Finnish citizens.

Meanwhile abroad, the great vacum left by Austria has been filled by the newly formed Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont, who now controlled much of northern Italy and central Europe. The balance of power is in flux and Sweden, and its allies, stands to gain a great deal more from further chaos on the continent.

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[cns - he/him/his]

Fredrick the Great just walks into the HRE and gets handed the crown

 

[Dallas]

Fredrick the Great just walks into the HRE and gets handed the crown

he's just that great

 

[A_cRaZeD_hObO]

while in the west the French had fallen into a decade of religious wars and strife that saw their kingdom reduced to a British proxy

ouch

 

[the last man]

John Shrike
Gamer for Hire

I came

I saw

I gamed