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Hansa in 2.0

MattyG · 2007-09-18T17:36:43+00:00

The Hanseatic League is a great component of the Interregnum world but I have always had a few reservations. 1. Novgorod. It does seem like a touch place for the hansa to have secured. I was wondering if we could drop the hansa connection there and give Novgorod province and CoT back to a Russian state. Maybe even a single-province Novgorod? In the 2.0 map, Novgorod is a really big province. 2. Florence. The map is differnet in 2.0 and Florence becomes appropriately inland. But I always found it strange that this distant Italian city would turn to the League. I realise that they have just won a decisive war against Brittany, Bavaria and others, but it still felt like a stretch. So here's my idea. First, they would start the game owning Siena, which is coastal and adjacent to Florence. The storyline being that the Sienese - at war with Genoa and an ally of Venice, had a large hanseatic presence. The seige of the city drew the league into the conflict and they managed to break the seige. The Genoese, unabale to defeat the League at sea or land accepted Hanseatic control over Siena at the war's close (the defeat of Venice). This naturally drew the ire of the Emperor and the burgeoning power of the league helped to precipitate the war which ends as the game starts with a handeatic victory. So, with the hansa already in Italy in 1419, the idea of Florence joining the League becomes more plausible. And the two provinces in Italy would compensate somewhat for the loss of Novgorod. A little.

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Start date Sep 18, 2007

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Trin Tragula

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As a footnote: atleast according to the back of my Kopke port flask (

o ) there where hanseatic free cities in portugl historically. So atleast the real league has had interest in the area (and if there why not italy in your mod?).

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