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So the only way would be to delay the reforms, let the leagues spawn, win the war, and then pass the reforms that You always stay emperor. But i rather thought i do that one when i play the papal states another time.
The other one - i´m not sure, as i did it way back, so i don´t know what it was about. If it´s about the cities it´s rather easy to get - if it´s about the number of countries it´s also easy to get after You have the vassal swarm.
So again, what are the conditions for the catholic faith to be the official faith in the empire?
Religious leagues only form if there is at least one non-subject Protestant, Reformed, or Hussite elector in the Empire (Anglican counts too, but I've never seen it). A standard strategy for Empire players is to prevent this from ever happening so the Leagues don't appear.
Since you want to get neither holy nor roman, you will be burning some excess IA before revoking anyways, so you'll have more time than the typical fast revoke. The Landsknecht might not be useful, although I would recommend passing it anyways even after you revoke, since Landfriede gives tech cost.
PS: Get neither holy nor roman BEFORE revoking, since there are no free cities after the revoke. Electors stay but Free cities don't.
If You have no reformation centers, and keep it catholic, You basically have all the time in the world to switch free cities - or to revoke. If You´re already emperor, as Austria - there is basically only one case in which You wouldn´t stay emperor as player - if You have a female heir, don´t have the authority for the decision, and then Your ruler dies...
What i didn´t know is what Chatbot said - that You could have it catholic, but still switch to zoroastrian when You automatically inherit the throne. Which imho doesn´t make sense. Either there´s an official faith or not.
But anyway - You´d need to delay that, and then either have the leagues form, but they wouldn´t attack for like 30 years - or wait till 1625 or something if no league forms. I´m unsure if it´s worth it, since You can get other achievements on the way. Like tier 5 defender of the faith of some religion which isn´t catholic or sunni. And the zoroastrian achievements. And You still need to finish the Persian mission tree, and then You can get the other Persian achievement. The biggest problem for me was to get a Persian ruler, which took quite a while, as my Austrian ruler got to age 87 or something and i had to make sure that he dies without heir - which was quite prestige consuming, because the game gave me new heirs like there´s no tomorrow, even if he was infertile. And You need to convert every of Your provinces if i remember right. I mean it´s probably still all possible if You wait till 1625 to get the reforms done, but then You probably need to hurry a bit.
The Bohemia thing above doesn´t work, as the HRE has no official faith then. So You don´t need to inherit them ASAP for this. You can still gamble to inherit them for free, at least once - like You want to abdicate Your ruler always when it´s possible anyways, for the IA.
Also on the Persian ruler: the mission actually requires a ruler and an heir of your current primary culture. So just switch back to Austrian culture once you've formed Persia.
But I'm afraid I still didn't get exactly onr thing: the best method to ensure that catholic is the official faith. From what I could interpret, basically my best option is to wait until 1625/30 for the event of the league wars to fire, and since there is not a single non catholic member, or too few members with weak supporters, there won't be a war, and because of that the event fires normally like if I had won the league war, thus making catholic the official faith. Now, I know that I had to delay the reform Erbkaisertum, and therefore the revoke reform, because this automatically make sthe pope leave, because no true officail religion was declared/enforced.
Did I get thet right? Also, as you pointed out, that would give me time to finish other achievements, like 7 non germanic free cities, austrian mission tree, etc
The only way is to revoke after 1625 in that case. So the other way around.
Yes. More or less (The league wars would happen earlier, but catholic would be the official faith, because the protestant league failed to form to begin with) And even if You don´t stress it You could probably revoke in 1550 or earlier - so it means to wait like 100 years to do so, only to get one achievement, while You want to get a couple of others, for which You have 10 years less to achieve. Also it would mean that in these 100 years of waiting the HRE princes would fight each others all over again, and You would occasionally need to fight them, to split them up all over again. While You sit at 100 IA at all times, which also means You get 100 more reasons to get elected again - which makes the Erbkaisertum a bit obsolete. But it´s not exactly the QoL solution - even if it´s possible.
You could of course use the time and prepare everything, so You just have to click buttons, and convert everything after You revoked, as You don´t need to worry about overextension, when You don´t want to pass reforms anyways. And yes - i also finished the Austrian mission tree first before even thinking about something else - but the Austrian mission tree is rather easy if You have revoked.
I´m personally unsure if it isn´t easier to do the holiest achievement with the papal states, because all You need to do is to subjugate an elector - and then have catholic to be the official faith in the HRE, which probably means to win the league war, while the AI is warleader, which is the gamble part.
Persian needs to be the dominant culture in your stated provinces only. You can just unstate non-Persian provinces until Persian is dominant, and then restate them afterwards.
Shouldn't hurt your income too much because by the time you conquer Persia as Austria, the main source of your income should be trade. And even more so if you revoked.
Which might happen randomly, but usually all of them will have Austrian culture. So You probably need to wait till You ruler dies, but get rid of all the heirs You get, so he dies without one.
By the way, I still did not revoke the privilegia by 1600, because I want the Holiest empire, and I am swimmung in Imperial Authority. Besides, I passed a reform accidentally where there can not be internal wars in the empire, so I can not convert heretic princes (not a problem since my IA gain is high anyway). I am only missing to complete the Austrian mission tree now, and to get the peace of westphalia, to focus on the persian stuff.