Religious war started without me

[Gio L'Uomo Focaccina]

I'm protestant Prussia in HRE and Saxony declared war on Austria for religious war and I can't tell who's gonna win because the whole fokking Europe is involved from France to UK to Spain to Russia.

Fact is: I had a truce with austria because of a broken alliance and I just started a war to support sweden independence, literally 4 days before.

In all this, I wasn't invited to the protestant league and now I'm out of the bloody war. Is there a way to join? Please help, i'm on Ironman :(

[Radene]

You can't join when the war is already underway.

Also you don't get invited to the league, you need to join yourself via the HRE interface. You can join either league, regardless of your religion.

But, again, not after the war has already started.

[Omniconda]

you have to join the league yourself once its activated via the HRE tab on the bottom then when the war starts you get auto called in unless your in a war that would the you fight countrys who are allied to you in another war
would also give a high chance that you yourself could have been leader and chose when to start it
now its started you cant join in as enforce peace wouldnt work while you have a truce and its an offensive war so allying saxony wouldnt give a call.
rent Condottiari or just sit it out an kill the shattered countrys when it ends

[Tulduil Iphukiir]

The "easiest" ways to join an ongoing war unfortunately (probably) won't work:
- You can't Enforce Peace as you want to join on the attacker side
- You probably cannot join through Great Power Intervention: Are you a Great Power? Is the number of Great Powers imbalanced? Do you have RoM?

- You (probably) can't force-vassalize a member of the Protestant League and inherit its war (I think I recall that only defensive wars are inherited)


Your options now include indirect support for the Protestants (Send gifts, pay sudsidies, (if GP) take loans, rent out Condottieri, fight rebels...) or direct action (attack Catholic League members in own war to destroy enemy armies and maybe annex small nations to get them out of the war, don't occupy too much overall as the Protestant League needs the warscore from occupations more than you)