Hansa in 2.0

[Trin Tragula]

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?).

 

[MattyG]

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?).

Thanks Trin. I will have to find out more about the hansa in Portugal.

As for Italy, the mod did have the Hansa getting Florence in the old map, but there were problems. First, the old map provinces represent huge areas rather than free cities, and they took up a lot of limited Italian space. Second, and most importantly, the ai doesn't know how to defend Florence. It's too far away early in the game. Even with its ai files set with a high distance value, it just didn't work. Portugal is about half the distance from 'Mecklenburg' but even less considering that the hansa have 'Flandern'.

Giving them Dutch, Russian, Portugaese, English AND Italian possessions at game start is a little too much, I think.

What we need for the Hansa are events targetting key mercantile cities in which the Hansa can get the following:

1. Invitations to join

2. Reduction in BB

3. Excuses to intervene.

Matty