Allow Protestants in HRE to join the Protestant League, even with truce with Kaiser

[mudcrabmerchant]

The Protestant League is about the very survival of the faith in the HRE, and it's a tad ridiculous that a major Protestant state with long-term rivalry of Austria would just stay out of it, because they didn't want the emperor to hate them for truce-breaking. The Catholic-Protestant war is meant to uproot half of Europe, and my ruler is going to stay out of it because he was in a war with the emperor 15 years before the war started?

If we can already break truces without penalties when called into certain wars, then we should definitely be allowed to join the Protestant League, even if that would result in a war with the Emperor while we have a truce. I can understand keeping the restriction for non-Protestants who are just meddling in the HRE for geopolitical purposes, but it just feels wrong that the most powerful Protestant and rival of Austria within the empire would sit out of the 30 Years' War for a diplomatic formality that is ignored even in minor coalition wars.

 

[Wizzington]

The problem with this goes something like this:

1) Protestants win war against Catholics
2) Catholic League immediately forms, DOWs Emperor

There needs to be downtime between large wars.

That said, I agree it's problematic when you're prevented from joining a league war due to a previous, unrelated war. That needs to be solved.

 

[TheDarkMaster]

Could you add a truce timer to the leagues themselves, such that the league war can't actually start until after a certain amount of time has passed? Then lift the restriction on joining/not joining based on the truces.

 

[mudcrabmerchant]

Thanks for the reply Wiz.

I think TheDarkMaster has a good idea. Alternatively, the truce restriction on participants themselves could just become active after the first war starts.

 

[TheDarkMaster]

Oh yeah, and the Emperor can't start any wars with the electors while the league truce is in effect.