Medicine Man said:I also like the idea of the Hanseatic League becoming a more continental power, although I'm not wild about them having to lose their other possessions to do so. If a human player is doing really well, he should have the possibility of eating his cake and having it too -- just like every other country, now that I think of it.
I am contemplating giving them the choice to be a land or a sea power coupled with the cbs and the abilities. You can hold onto everything anyway, you just don't have the cbs anymore.
Medicine Man said:What I'd really like to see, is a sort of anti-HRE coalition headed by the Hanse during Abe's equivalent of the 30YW. This coalition could develop into a Protestant state, perhaps even shifting the culture of many northern provinces to something other than german (hanseatic perhaps).
By the same token, it should be possible for Bavaria to just paste the whole lot of them and form a super-HRE. I think all of these are fun things to do in SP and valid goals in MP.
HRE unification, no. But a bid for supremacy, damn sure yes.
Swabia and Hansa will be the main foes here, more to come in another thread.