Great game so far !
We played for a few hours (about a hundred years) and all I can say is -wow-! Playing minors was definitely a great idea... Saxony was utterly crushed by Brandenburg after two years of warfare and had to give back Magdeburg which was conquered by the former a decade ago (six years later Brandenburg wasn't so fortunate and it got annexed by Saxony after a bloody war)
Bavaria (played by Altuar) fared quite well, making gains into Bohemia until his armies were annihilated by the almighty Austria
Still, Bavaria's doing good and keeps Wurtemberg and Sudeten aside from its core provinces (it's also a member of the powerful Polish-Hungarian alliance)
While Bavaria was recovering, I (Saxony) managed to first vassalize then diplomatically annex Hannover (which also controlled the former Hansa province of Bremen) This gave me my second port after Western Pommerenia which was taken from Hansa in an earlier war. My current alliance includes Sweden, Palatinate and Thuringen. In short, my short-term goal has been achieved: As of 1590, Saxony is the single most powerful Protestant power on the continent--now if i can only steal a map from those pesky Dutch
Best,
tuna
PS: you really need nerves of steel to play a mp game w/IGC
the game crashes even more often than the regular GC when played multiplayer--if you can believe that...
