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[Okawoa]

Food for thought

Daneshaw: A rant about EP

DISCLAIMER: A decent mod, but flawed.

1419
A bright future seems to await gentle Denmark. Denmark owns Oldemburg and Norway directly, sliders are decent.

1430
Promoted tons of tax-men, income flowing... I swear EP was supposed to be hard?

1446
Denmark fights both the Teutonic Order and Polmaria, Danzig is gained through the war. Denmark enforces the "Sound Toll" 2 trade centres.

1460
Sweden breaks vassalage, after showing middle finger for Danish plans of incorporation, third time...
France has a VERY easy time during the hundred years war, England just automatically surrenders EVERYTHING including Calis. France slaps up Spain. We get Holstein!

1481
North and East unite to stop Moscowy. Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, TU, Sweden and Denmark battle the rising power of Moscow. Danish 20k under Hans swallowed up by winter & 30k Russian armies.

After that I fight Sweden, beginning quite confortablely with a 20k army. Then out of the capital two 15k Swedish armies come along and beat the shit out of me. I have scouted, they are making nothing... then blam full morale, well led Swedes just come and rout 20k.

I see that the AI gets some cheats but omg

I was less impressed with EP after I learned how the AI just spawns armies.

 

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Daneshaw: A rant about EP

DISCLAIMER: A decent mod, but flawed.

1419
A bright future seems to await gentle Denmark. Denmark owns Oldemburg and Norway directly, sliders are decent.

1430
Promoted tons of tax-men, income flowing... I swear EP was supposed to be hard?

1446
Denmark fights both the Teutonic Order and Polmaria, Danzig is gained through the war. Denmark enforces the "Sound Toll" 2 trade centres.

1460
Sweden breaks vassalage, after showing middle finger for Danish plans of incorporation, third time...
France has a VERY easy time during the hundred years war, England just automatically surrenders EVERYTHING including Calis.

This doesn't happen. The French AI mauls the English AI/human player instead.

France slaps up Spain. We get Holstein!

1481
North and East unite to stop Moscowy. Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, TU, Sweden and Denmark battle the rising power of Moscow. Danish 20k under Hans swallowed up by winter & 30k Russian armies.

This is very much wanted. Not just by the maker of EP(me) but by the majority of EP users(at least the ones who comment on EP). You are supposed to be afraid of Russia and reluctant to fight him so easily. Maybe you should pay him off in a large amount of ducats after minting for a few months rather than get hammered over and over in a losing war. You should be losing some of the wars in EP.

After that I fight Sweden, beginning quite confortablely with a 20k army. Then out of the capital two 15k Swedish armies come along and beat the shit out of me. I have scouted, they are making nothing... then blam full morale, well led Swedes just come and rout 20k.

Was there a fleet nearby by any chance? It is not possible to make full morale armies out of thin air.

I see that the AI gets some cheats but omg

Yes he gets full DP shifts and yes that makes his armies have very high morale.

I was less impressed with EP after I learned how the AI just spawns armies.

No he does not just spawn armies. He can get armies due to random events(so do you) but they do not give 100% morale when they are created.

I'm afraid you've made some inaccurate observations about EP. And losing wars should motivate you to try harder. most people playing EP like that. If you want an easy game you should probably try a different mod. If you want to be challenged in areas where other EU2 versions are just too easy then EP should be pretty satisfying.

 

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Sorry to point it out but denmark is supposed to loose about 70-80 % of it's territory during gametime to sweden and brandenburg. I rarely see sweden rise during EP games (not once in 6 games), but kept firmly under the danish boot, and failing to take key territory such as vårpommern, gotland, skåne and gotland and norway, leaving a rump state of three provs (this would be the historic outcome).

last game sweden was reduced to one province, with the entire finland being firmly prussian, a big denmark (every game in ep denmark has taken a lot of territory in germany, making it much stronger than historically and thus able too keep down the freedom loving swedes).

There;s things I can do to make Sweden more consistently take the Danish provinces he's supposed to.

also, have one request. I took alexandria, crete, rhodos, sinai, judea, samaria, lebanon and aleppo from the turks in prior attempts to take Aden. and of course wanted to create some puppets of it. Is it possible to include sinai and samaria to Jerusalem as well as making it a catholic state? or a crusader kingdom event? just for fun...

I just try to stick to modeling history in the game.

So I am more inclined to look at it the way that Denmark should loose ~30-35% of its territory during game time.

It's difficult to model the Napoleonic wars. Not much point in putting much effort into it unless there is a lot of consistency in historical development in most of Europe.

Keeping Norway out of the question I otherwise agree. Denmark should loose Jämtlandet, Gotland, and Skåne to Sweden and Sweden should also be able to carve out a baltic empire at least for som 50-80 years.

I'd like to make this happen consistently.

Sweden should be the stronger power on land, Denmark at sea.

But the way the AI works, this is hard to model without Sweden eating up Denmark in every game (ie classic vanilla EU2).

This is true and it's really that Denmark has a sizeable superior economic strength early on that this doesn't happen over and over. Unfortunately this is also making Denmark diplo-annex Sweden early too often.

One suggestion that just might work though would be to have very large fortresses in the Norwegian provinces that Denmark is supposed to keep so that they are only easily conquerable in the late game.

This is a good idea but it can't work all the way for low tax provinces.

Also another suggestion:

The historical placement of COTs around the Baltic would be Fladern, Mecklemburg, Danzig, and Courland.
Not Copenhagen, not Svealand.

During the whole game? This might also help Archangel to survive too.

(Sweden can get ahistorical COTs in Svealand by option B choices in some events. I personally view this as little more than a vestige of Paradox's original overdone Sweden-setup)

Well I know also that Sweden and Denmark tend to have very aggressive merchant placing as well. This can be curbed a bit by removing those COTs.

But the only way to model the insane revenues from the Sund Due without granting Denmark a COT would be to add something like +40 tax value to Copenhagen.

(The Sund Due actually composed something like 1/3 of Denmarks Medieval/Renaissance income. After Peder Oxe the revenues tripled, but the infrastructure had also evolved parallely and as such the Sund Due still constituated about 33% of the Danish income although it had become numerically greater in the mean time).

Well I wouldn't want make it that high. But I don't have a problem raising it and removing the COT. It will likely help AI performance too.

 

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The major commodities in regard to Baltic trade was Polish/Russian/Scandinavian grain & fish and Russian timber.

Medieval/Rennaissance:

Danzig, Kourland, Mecklemburg, Flandern.

Fladern already evolves into Anglia/ Netherlands.

You could move the Kourland COT to St. Petersburg when/if that event fires.

Danzig should remain for the entire game.

If Mecklemburg ~ Hamburg in the game then you could easily keep it as a COT until end of game as the city was an important economic centre until Napoleon annexed it (1810).


Regarding modelling the Sund Due with tax value instead: Maybe there is something that I have misunderstood about the game engine, but doesnt a well-exploited COT net you far more than +40 tax value?

 

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The major commodities in regard to Baltic trade was Polish/Russian/Scandinavian grain & fish and Russian timber.

Medieval/Rennaissance:

Danzig, Kourland, Mecklemburg, Flandern.

Fladern already evolves into Anglia/ Netherlands.

You could move the Kourland COT to St. Petersburg when/if that event fires.

Danzig should remain for the entire game.

If Mecklemburg ~ Hamburg in the game then you could easily keep it as a COT until end of game as the city was an important economic centre until Napoleon annexed it (1810).

I'll give it a shot in a playtest and see how this setup works out.

Regarding modelling the Sund Due with tax value instead: Maybe there is something that I have misunderstood about the game engine, but doesnt a well-exploited COT net you far more than +40 tax value?

AIs use census tax for investing. COT income just goes to tech and stab, unless the AI is at war in which case it usually goes to troops and ships. So high tax values are more useful to an AI than COTs.

 

[Quift]

The major commodities in regard to Baltic trade was Polish/Russian/Scandinavian grain & fish and Russian timber.

Medieval/Rennaissance:

Danzig, Kourland, Mecklemburg, Flandern.

Fladern already evolves into Anglia/ Netherlands.

You could move the Kourland COT to St. Petersburg when/if that event fires.

Danzig should remain for the entire game.

If Mecklemburg ~ Hamburg in the game then you could easily keep it as a COT until end of game as the city was an important economic centre until Napoleon annexed it (1810).


Regarding modelling the Sund Due with tax value instead: Maybe there is something that I have misunderstood about the game engine, but doesnt a well-exploited COT net you far more than +40 tax value?

Sorry, shouldn't the Kurland CoT be in Riga?Which was one of the major baltic cities during the period. And you forgot the importance of Swedish High grade Iron and Copper as trade goods. Generally the Baltic trade should be very important even for nations such as Holland and England so some trade values might need to get beefed. (don't know really, only played games as portugal so far.)

 

[Okawoa]

bah, your right... I just hated the idea that even with Sweden tied down in Russia it can still win. I swear to god that England, without being at war just surrendered its possessions.

Anyway Russia just inherited the Mogol empire by event so I guess in history Russia would've been quite powerful. Still like your force release chain of events, keeps the game very historical. Still, with the AI cheating (42k with Bremen, superior land tech as well, being small) how am I supposed to play? Hands off Germany? Don't even THINK of declaring war to well leadered, well manpowered (I checked save, they just built in Finland), well teched and superior monarched Swdeden.

Anyway about the Ottomon screenshot, is that supposed to happen? I mean Ottomon invasions on Norway?

 

[pgroves]

Minor bug in Russia

When playing as Muscovy in EP 1.8.2, I noticed (when attacking Novgorod, but also after Novgorod ceded me the province) that its not possible to move from Kexholm or Olonet to Karelia, you just get an "X" symbol - is this intentional? Seems odd...

BTW has anyone else tested whether they get any leaders when playing Qara Kyolunu? I don't, but maybe its just me...

Paul

 

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When playing as Muscovy in EP 1.8.2, I noticed (when attacking Novgorod, but also after Novgorod ceded me the province) that its not possible to move from Kexholm or Olonet to Karelia, you just get an "X" symbol - is this intentional? Seems odd...

BTW has anyone else tested whether they get any leaders when playing Qara Kyolunu? I don't, but maybe its just me...

Though you can move from Kola and Savolaks to Karelia...

 

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Its the same in standard

As for Quara Kyolunu there are 4 leaders in the leader file all over by 1467 so you wont notice any leaders after that.

Hope I helped

 

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A name of a Portuguese leader is incorrect. Instead of Pedro Alvarez Cabral, it should be Pedro Álvares Cabral.

 

[pgroves]

Its the same in standard

Okay, I think this may have been fixed in recent AGCEEP release, and I never play vanilla, so I wouldn't have noticed...

As for Quara Kyolunu there are 4 leaders in the leader file all over by 1467 so you wont notice any leaders after that.

But I'm not getting any at all ever, even though there are some listed in the leaders file for QK! Is this happening to anyone else? Could someone test? Thanks

Paul

 

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Sorry, shouldn't the Kurland CoT be in Riga?Which was one of the major baltic cities during the period. And you forgot the importance of Swedish High grade Iron and Copper as trade goods. Generally the Baltic trade should be very important even for nations such as Holland and England so some trade values might need to get beefed. (don't know really, only played games as portugal so far.)

The Kurland COT could be in Riga as well. Both the ports were very central to the Russian grain shipments. Maybe there could even be two COTs right next to each other there. It would certainly be more historical than a COT in Denmark or Sweden.

The baltic trade should be very important at the start of the game with and then be rapidly declining as more and more exploration is done and colonies are are established. The introduction of the potato was very hurtful to the baltic grain trade in europe and iron become more and more abundant (and the Swedes started using more and more of it themselves)

Sweden supplied the best iron and copper of the baltic but that does not mean that svealand should be an actual center of trade. of course it is always somewhat arbitrary what actually constitudes a center of trade but in taken as "merchants meeting to exchange the goods of the region, then Copenhagen is far higher on the list of possible COTs than Sweden and I am the one arguing against a COT in Copenhagen, mind you.

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If a strong Danish economy is a problem early on and IDLF decides to model the Sund Due with tax value, you might consider only boosting the tax of copenhagen partially when the Sund Due fires and then give a larger boost when the Peder Oxe event fires. Peter Oxe tripled the revenues of the Sund Due and the system that he designed was used even after his death.

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IDLF: This is my last day on vacation, I will send you the promised material in a couple of days. In the mean time, here are some danish leaders that I have found in my holiday-reading.

Casper Herman Hausmann 1700-1716
Commander-in-chief of the Norwegian land forces during the Great Northern conflict where he succesfully protected the Norwegian border from Swedish incursions. Demoted to advisor in 1716 for being too defensive.

Peter Bredal 1643-1658
Squadron Captain who resisted Swedish naval squandrons in february (status quo although outnumbered), defeated Swedish sqadrons in april, died assaulting the Swedish-controlled Als-fortress in December.

Johan Olfert Fishcer 1797-endgame
Not-yet-vice-admiral Fischer defended Danish trade convoys against repeated French and English attacks. He also commanded the Danish forces at the battle of Reden (1801) and again against the English assault on Copenhagen (1807).

Vinces Budde 1710-1719 (not the same guy as Jonas Budde)
Lt. General defeated the Swedes at Moss, intercepted a Swedish raiding party in the Trondheim countryside, and resisted the Swedish charge in Trøndelag. Overly defensive. Let parts of the town be razed in order to maintain an optimal battle line.

Werner Nicolai de Seue 1788-1808
Brigade commander who attacked Sweden with his brigade in 1788, defeated a minor Swedish force in 1807 but defeated by the Swedes at Lier and forced to withdraw. Conservative and defensive sound de Seue enjoyed littel political support. Thus, when general major Prince Christian August arrived he dismissed de Seue for retreating and called him a coward.

Bernhard Ditlef von Staffeldt 1803-1816
Brigade commander of the Norwegian "Jaeger"/ Light infantry. Participated in too many battles to count. Amongst them Bohustlan 1788, attacked the English in Germany 1807, Swedes in Sweden 1808, 1814 and more. Military style characterized by swift movement and surprise attacks.

 

[Quift]

The Kurland COT could be in Riga as well. Both the ports were very central to the Russian grain shipments. Maybe there could even be two COTs right next to each other there. It would certainly be more historical than a COT in Denmark or Sweden.

The baltic trade should be very important at the start of the game with and then be rapidly declining as more and more exploration is done and colonies are are established. The introduction of the potato was very hurtful to the baltic grain trade in europe and iron become more and more abundant (and the Swedes started using more and more of it themselves)

Sweden supplied the best iron and copper of the baltic but that does not mean that svealand should be an actual center of trade. of course it is always somewhat arbitrary what actually constitudes a center of trade but in taken as "merchants meeting to exchange the goods of the region, then Copenhagen is far higher on the list of possible COTs than Sweden and I am the one arguing against a COT in Copenhagen, mind you.

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If a strong Danish economy is a problem early on and IDLF decides to model the Sund Due with tax value, you might consider only boosting the tax of copenhagen partially when the Sund Due fires and then give a larger boost when the Peder Oxe event fires. Peter Oxe tripled the revenues of the Sund Due and the system that he designed was used even after his death.

Oh, I'm not arguing for the Svealand CoT but for the importance of the baltic trade in general. both norwegian fish, baltic grain, swedish copper, and swedish iron made it a very important trade for those who controlled it, and was also of a vital strategic interest for all the naval powers. Which needs to be modeled better.

some factors should be modeled.
1, the sound due, if sweden or denmark controls the sound (själland and skåne)they should be able to impose the due (a significant boost of income comparable to having a CoT)
2 the dutch and english should have a good interest in keeping the sound uncontrolled thus weaken denmark til sweden becomes the dominant party, and then keep the swedes and danes on par.

does naval supplies traded add to max amounts of ship? is the price relatated to total amount of ships in the world? cause the importance of these goods should rise when the atlantic powers start the colonial race thus keep the baltics as an important market.

 

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...of a vital strategic interest for all the naval powers. Which needs to be modeled better.

How would you do it. This is not really modellable without having England and Netherlands raiding Scandinavia and the Baltic.

some factors should be modeled.
1, the sound due, if sweden or denmark controls the sound (själland and skåne)they should be able to impose the due (a significant boost of income comparable to having a CoT)

Its true that the DUE-revenue is comparable to a COT and as such it is by far the easiest way to model the revenues. But it is not the most historical, and it gives Denmark more merchants and thus more global trade than Denmark had histroically.

2 the dutch and english should have a good interest in keeping the sound uncontrolled thus weaken denmark til sweden becomes the dominant party, and then keep the swedes and danes on par.

they should and they did have. but do not forget that the danish fleet was constantly ranking amongst the #3-4 most powerful in the world and that copenhagen was very well fortified, also navally. so it was not easily done.

and the dutch, english and french did have interest in keeping the sund uncontrolled. had they made a common frontier, there is little denmark could have done. historically however, denmark kept the due intact by "divinding an conquering" IE granting each power individual priviledges within the sund due system thus pacifying their goal to remove the due as each power believed that they had they had the upper hand within the blurred system of trading rights.

cause the importance of these goods should rise when the atlantic powers start the colonial race thus keep the baltics as an important market

Really as I said the importance of the Baltic trade only diminished once the new world was discovered and settled. but yes - the naval supplies were important long after the grain and fish trade had driep up.

 

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Actually I would say that the "trading Concesisons within the due system" would be best modelled by removing the Due once sweden manages to take skåne. I'ts not really a due if the major playe´rs don't pay it.

So there should be 3 CoT at start then. Mecklenberg, Danzig and Novgorod.

The mecklenburg Cot should still dissappear mid game, should it be replaced, otherwise it will be taken by someone (brandenburg or danmark).
Danzig for the entire period
Novgorod by Riga, and later on petrograd.

 

[Quift]

IDLF: This is my last day on vacation, I will send you the promised material in a couple of days. In the mean time, here are some danish leaders that I have found in my holiday-reading.

Casper Herman Hausmann 1700-1716
Commander-in-chief of the Norwegian land forces during the Great Northern conflict where he succesfully protected the Norwegian border from Swedish incursions. Demoted to advisor in 1716 for being too defensive.

Peter Bredal 1643-1658
Squadron Captain who resisted Swedish naval squandrons in february (status quo although outnumbered), defeated Swedish sqadrons in april, died assaulting the Swedish-controlled Als-fortress in December.

Johan Olfert Fishcer 1797-endgame
Not-yet-vice-admiral Fischer defended Danish trade convoys against repeated French and English attacks. He also commanded the Danish forces at the battle of Reden (1801) and again against the English assault on Copenhagen (1807).

Vinces Budde 1710-1719 (not the same guy as Jonas Budde)
Lt. General defeated the Swedes at Moss, intercepted a Swedish raiding party in the Trondheim countryside, and resisted the Swedish charge in Trøndelag. Overly defensive. Let parts of the town be razed in order to maintain an optimal battle line.

Werner Nicolai de Seue 1788-1808
Brigade commander who attacked Sweden with his brigade in 1788, defeated a minor Swedish force in 1807 but defeated by the Swedes at Lier and forced to withdraw. Conservative and defensive sound de Seue enjoyed littel political support. Thus, when general major Prince Christian August arrived he dismissed de Seue for retreating and called him a coward.

Bernhard Ditlef von Staffeldt 1803-1816
Brigade commander of the Norwegian "Jaeger"/ Light infantry. Participated in too many battles to count. Amongst them Bohustlan 1788, attacked the English in Germany 1807, Swedes in Sweden 1808, 1814 and more. Military style characterized by swift movement and surprise attacks.

:rofl:

You do know that ILDF only gives out good leaders since the AI don't know how to use/avoid using the bad ones?

 

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Actually I would say that the "trading Concesisons within the due system" would be best modelled by removing the Due once sweden manages to take skåne.

Erm do you know that the due was kept in place all the way up to 1857 and that all major powers included sweden paid it up to 1857.

So there should be 3 CoT at start then. Mecklenberg, Danzig and Novgorod.

where have courland/riga gone?

The mecklenburg Cot should still dissappear mid game, should it be replaced, otherwise it will be taken by someone (brandenburg or danmark).

whats so bad about brandenburg taking it? i would actually give denmark/sweden/bradenburg about equal opportunity of grabbing it.

with sweden hopefully performing better in future versions, this will probably be modellable.

 

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...and as for the leaders, there are far worse leaders in the game already than the ones I just described.

Quift I dont know if you're just out to make Sweden as strong as possible and Denmark was weak as possible within the EP and you think that I am pushing for the reversal. This is not the case.

I am, however, interested in making Denmark run better and to add some depth to it in EP. So if I suggest alot of things for Denmark and only few for Sweden it is because I am simply more interested in Denmark.

But you or others could undertake som Sweden research....

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Here are some more events from my Danish event file. you are free to use them in any form, IDLF...

event = {
id = 15xxx
random = no
country = DAN
name = "Our German Heritage"
desc = "Throughout early modern times Denmark maintained a uniquely complicated realtionship to its German neighbors. The aristocracy and goverment officials were predominantly German and Denmarks different royal houses all traced their origins to German lands such as Bavaria, Pommerania and Oldenburg. Official Danish documents were issued in German, elementry school was taught in German, and the army commanded its troops in that very same language.
Throughout the period, Denmark ruled various ethnic German territories undisturbed by strife or turmoil, and the Danish King was at times welcomed as a fellow Holy Roman elector within the Empire.
"
date = { day = 1 month = april year = 1419 }

action_a = {

name = "Ok"
command = { type = add_countryculture which = german }}}

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event = {
id = 15xxx
trigger = {
owned = { province = 307 data = -1 }
}
random = no
country = DAN
name = "The Expulsion of the German Civil Servants."
desc = "Following the downfall of Struense in 1772 the new ministers to the Danish king acted out against the age-old German influences on Danish culture. The ministers promptly changed the administrative language of Denmark from German to Danish and eventually banned all ethnic Germans from positions of civil service in Denmark."
style = 4
date = { day = 30 month = june year = 1775 }

action_a = {
name = "Let them go"
command = { type = remove_countryculture which = German }
command = { type = provincetax which = -1 value = -3 }
command = { type = provincetax which = -1 value = -3 }
command = { type = provincetax which = -1 value = -2 }
command = { type = provincetax which = -1 value = -2 }
command = { type = provincetax which = -1 value = -1 }
command = { type = provincetax which = -1 value = -1 }
command = { type = domestic which = centralization value = 1 }}

action_b = {
name = "Keep them"
command = { type = stability value = -3 }
command = { type = revoltrisk which = 120 value = 3 }}}

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event = {
id = 15920

random = no
country = DAN
name = "The Copenhagen Decree"
desc = "In 1422 Erik VII granted Copenhagen priviledges within his realm. These privileges gained Danish merchants and magistrates and upper hand when trading in Copenhagen. It was decreed that 'guests were not to trade with guests' without the interaction of a local merchant and this upset the Hanseatic traders there. The new law for Copenhagen also decreed that craftsmen were not to serve in any public offices.
"
date = { day = 22 month = february year = 1422 }

action_a = {

name = "Grant priviledges"
command = { type = trade value = 100 }
command = { type = domestic which = aristocracy value = 1 }
command = { type = domestic which = centralization value = -1 }
command = { type = domestic which = mercantilism value = 1 }
command = { type = relation which = POM value = -15 }
command = { type = relation which = SHL value = -15 }
command = { type = relation which = BRE value = -15 }
command = { type = relation which = MEC value = -15 }
command = { type = relation which = SWE value = -10 }
command = { type = relation which = LAT value = -10 }
command = { type = relation which = POL value = -10 }}}

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event = {
id = 15919

random = no
country = DAN
name = "Kastellet"
desc = "After the Swedish siege on Copenhagen (1658-1660) the Dutch engineer Henrik Rüse was called in to help rebuild and extend the construction of Copenhagen's fortifications. The result was a classic Citadel-like fortress of Italian design protecting the north front of Copenhagen. This fort was named Kastellet and it played a crucial part in every siege on Copenhagen since.
"
date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1792 }

action_a = {

name = "Build it"
command = { type = fortress which = -2 value = 1 }}}

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event = {
id = 15918

random = no
country = DAN
name = "A Ban on Slavery"
desc = "From 1790 and onwards the Danish minister of finance had been drafting up a law to outlaw slavery. It was signed in 1792 and so Denmark became the first European nation to abolish slavery. However, the West Indian platation economy was not geared to give up slavery so soon and so the law ended up hurting Danish colonial trade.
"
date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1792 }

action_a = {

name = "Outlaw Slavery"
command = { type = provincetax which = -3 value = -1 }
command = { type = provincetax which = -3 value = -1 }
command = { type = provincetax which = -3 value = -1 }
command = { type = domestic which = serfdom value = -2 }
command = { type = trade value = -250 }
command = { type = infra value = -250 }}}

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event = {
id = 15xxx
random = no
country = DAN
name = "Lex Regia"
desc = "'The King's Law' (Kongeloven - Lex Regia) formed the constitutional background for absolute monarchy and is one of the earliest written European constitutional documents. It was crafted by the hand of the young Griffenfeld. The passing of Law in 1665 additionally enforced the sovereignty of the King, and with the introduction of the absolute monarchy the power of the nobility was completely destroyed and old privileges were withdrawn. The nobility had to pay taxes and lost with the introduction of the Danish Act of Succession, their right to chose the country's king.

"
date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1665 }

action_a = {

name = "Do it"
command = { type = stability value = -1 }
command = { type = provincetax which = -2 value = 2 }
command = { type = provincetax which = 309 value = 3 }
command = { type = domestic which = ARISTOCRACY value = -1 }
command = { type = domestic which = CENTRALIZATION value = 1 }}}

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event = {
id = 15xxx
random = no
country = DAN
name = "A Trading House"
desc = "In the fact of the fierce trading competition from both Holland and the Hanseatic League, king Christian II sought to establish and charter a Nordic center of trade in Copenhagen to benefit Scandinavian merchants and citizens. The attept fell short, however, as the nobles of Scandinavia feared that these merchants would become too rich and so the initiative was halted halfway through.
"

date = { day = 1 month = april year = 1513 }

action_a = {
name = "Appease nobles"
command = { type = stability value = 1 }
command = { type = domestic which = aristocracy value = 1 }}

action_b = {
name = "Establish trading company"
command = { type = stability value = -2 }
command = { type = merchants value = 3 }}}

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event = {
id = 15xxx
random = no
country = DAN
name = "Stænderforsamling"
desc = "In 1468 the traditional hearings between the King and the nobles was expanded by the first Danish gathring of the subjects (Stænderforsamling). Besides the nobles and clerics of the realm, 2-3 citizens from each town was summoned just as 2-3 peasants from each of the circa 200 Danish shires were allowed to participate. Although the Stænderforsamlings excerted little real political influence they would continue to be called on a regular basis. They allowed the king to draw on the increased support of the common people.
"

date = { day = 1 month = march year = 1468 }

action_a = {
name = "Ok"
command = { type = domestic which = aristocracy value = -1 }}}

------

event = {
id = 159153
random = no
country = DAN
name = "Tranquebar"
desc = "The Danish colonies in India were founded by the Danish East India Company, which was active from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The Danish colony's capital was Fort Dansborg at Tranquebar, established in 1620, on the Coromandel coast. As Denmark established more and more holdings in India Tranquebar eventually became the capital of Danish India.
"

date = { day = 1 month = march year = 1620 }

action_a = {
name = "We will exploit this"
command = { type = add_countryculture which = dravidian }}}

event = {
id = 159154
random = no
country = DAN
name = "Danish India"
desc = "From 1675 and onwards the Danish East India Company aquired the district jurisdiction over several Bengali towns in the Orissa region (Berhampur, Howrah, and Odisa). During the first ten to fifteen years of their settlement, the Danish merchants faced various problems but they soon started making significant progress in trade and commerce and eventually, Danish laws were promulgated there.
"

date = { day = 1 month = march year = 1675 }

action_a = {
name = "We will exploit this"
command = { type = add_countryculture which = bengali }}}

------------------------

#(1479) University of Copenhagen
event = {
id = 159152
random = no
country = DAN
name = "Foundation of the University of Copenhagen"
desc = "In 1475 pope Sixtus IV approved Christian I's request for the construction of a Danish University and four years later (in 1479) the University of Copenhagen was opened. Like most universities of the later middle ages it housed the four classic sciences of Theology, Philosophy, Medicine, and Law."

date = { day = 1 month = march year = 1479 }

action_a = {
name = "Found the university"
command = { type = gainmanufactory which = -2 value = luxury }}}

----------

event = {
id = 159148
trigger = {
owned = { province = 307 data = -1 }
}
random = no
country = DAN
name = "Queen Philippas Agreement with the Hanseatic League"
desc = "During the absence of King Erik his Queen Philippa secured an agreement with the Hanseatic League. The agreement established the exact value of the different currencies circulating in the area at the time. The agreement greatly easened trade between Denmark, Sweden and the Hanseatic League."
style = 4
date = { day = 30 month = june year = 1424 }

action_a = {
name = "Secure Agreement"
command = { type = trade value = 250 }
command = { type = relation which = POM value = 25 }
command = { type = relation which = SHL value = 25 }
command = { type = relation which = BRE value = 25 }
command = { type = relation which = MEC value = 25 }
command = { type = relation which = SWE value = 10 }
command = { type = relation which = LAT value = 10 }
command = { type = relation which = POL value = 10 }}}

------------

event = {
id = 15939

random = no
country = DAN
name = "Christophers Policies"
desc = "In 1441 Christopher crushed a great peasant rebellion in Northern Jutland and as a whole his reign meant a growing suppression of the peasantry especially in Eastern Denmark. On the other hand he tried to support the cities and their merchants as far as the limits of nobility and Hanseatic cities allowed."
date = { year = 1441 month = december day = 25 }
action_a ={
name = "Ok"
command = { type = domestic which = serfdom value = 1 }
command = { type = revolt which = 309 }
command = { type = trade value = 100 }}}

---------------------

event = {
id = 15925

random = no
country = DAN
name = "The Assassination of Poul Laxmand"
desc = "In 1502 the chief city magistrate and noble of Copenhagen, Poul Laxmand, was passed up by two fellow nobles and assassinated for no apparent reason. This seems to have sat well with king Hans who had previously forced Poul Laxmand to promise his estates to the crown in the event of his death.
"
date = { day = 22 month = july year = 1502 }

action_a = {

name = "Rest in Peace"
command = { type = treasury value = 50 }
command = { type = provincetax which = -2 value = 1 }
command = { type = stability value = -1 }}}

 

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Some playtest observations:

- France colonizes Canada aggressively (good to see!) but does not loose the bulk of it in the seven years war and as such England typically ends up being the second largest presence in America.

- With the aggressive colonization the USA is going to be buying cities, not trading posts in 1803 when they take over the French territories. When you see how other countries are granted cultures, why not grant the USA French culture?

- With the takeover of 1803 the USA also bought the French claims on the viceroyalty of New Spain (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona). - Give them out as cores?

- Due to my reading up on Vietnamese history I have written files that model the internal power struggles better. Can you PM me an email?

- Etnicity of Lao Cai should be Vietnamese, not Thai. Religion could be eigther buddhist or confucian depending on the power balance of the region.

- Etnicity of Mekong, Sarakham, and Laos should be Lao, not Thai.