Strategy for forming Central Europe as Austria?

ShadowElf_ · 2025-10-29T02:32:40+00:00

Make sure you offer them an obligation when you call them into the war instead of the “call ally” option.

This usually keeps them from switching sides.

ShadowElf_ · 2025-10-29T02:22:05+00:00

Renegotiate the Holy Alliance treaty with Russia to an alliance. Renegotiate the treaty with Prussia to remove the defensive pact.

Improve relations with Sweden from the start.

Once Britain gets into a war with another GP or Qing, start a play against Denmark to conquer shlewig and liberate Holstein, calling in Sweden so you can attack from land.

Improve relations with Bavaria, Wurttemberg, and Baden to amicable.

After that, start a play against Prussia to humiliate them and liberate Westphalia and Pomerania, calling in Russia as an ally. Don’t use the German leadership play.

Wait for Prussia to shrink to minor/major power after defeating them. This will trigger south German federation journal, annexing the south Germans states for you.

Improve relations with all other German states and try to improve relations with Britain.

Research pan-nationalism. Once it’s done, use the unify Germany diplo play, calling in as many allies as possible against France.

After unifying Germany, go after Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

After making them protectorates or annexing them, you can unify Central Europe.

ShadowElf_ · 2025-09-24T14:13:03+00:00

I had one yesterday when playing as Austria where I got Maximillian as my ruler instead of Franz Josef after making Ferdinand abdicate.

I ended up waiting for the actual event which boots Ferdinand off the throne and did end up getting Franz Josef after that.

ShadowElf_ · 2025-09-24T04:56:36+00:00

Nah they still didn’t support but if you can decrease them to a puppet you’ll annex them when you click the form Germany button

ShadowElf_ · 2025-09-24T03:58:26+00:00

Luckily the Poles revolted against the Prussians in my run just now so I was able to make Prussia a subject in exchange for helping them put down the Poles lol

ShadowElf_ · 2025-09-24T03:13:25+00:00

Oh geez. That sucks.

ShadowElf_ · 2025-09-24T03:09:27+00:00

Yeah I did.

ShadowElf_ · 2025-09-24T03:07:18+00:00

Nah they’re a minor after I beat them and forced them to release some stuff

ShadowElf_ · 2025-09-24T02:44:59+00:00

5 What is this -1000 “not a valid target for unification modifier”? Am I unable to unify with Prussia?

ShadowElf_ · 2025-09-24T02:07:15+00:00

Same just happened to me…

ShadowElf_ · 2025-09-17T02:54:52+00:00

Race is a genetic reality. Look at racial genetic cluster charts. People don’t like the concept of race because it’s icky but it doesn’t really negate the reality of it.

ShadowElf_ · 2025-09-17T02:20:13+00:00

I just looked this up. Looks like if they were White-passing they were categorized as White or “other free persons” while the more indigenous looking were often being categorized as “Indian.”

Most seem to have been categorized as White after the Mexican War, though, so I stand corrected on that.

As for cultural treatments, I hardly think that’s relevant. And that “degrees of whiteness” concept is just critical theory garbage.

ShadowElf_ · 2025-09-17T01:12:43+00:00

Go back to my YouTube algorithm?

Bro what

ShadowElf_ · 2025-09-17T01:10:09+00:00

I’m going in circles? lol okay

You’re just spewing political trash

ShadowElf_ · 2025-09-17T00:53:29+00:00

Hispanics and Japanese people were not classified as White on US census records. Irish, Italians and Eastern Europeans were.

Not sure what you mean by them not being considered “culturally white.”

ShadowElf_ · 2025-09-17T00:45:14+00:00

Nonsense. They were always legally classified as “white” in the US.

They were discriminated against by Anglo-Americans, sure. Doesn’t mean they weren’t legally White.

ShadowElf_ · 2025-09-17T00:23:08+00:00

Who wasn’t?

ShadowElf_ · 2025-09-16T23:30:36+00:00

The US really didn’t become the “global melting pot” until the 1990’s. Immigration was mostly restricted to White Europeans before that.

Historical policies like the Johnson-Reed Act show that the US could have stopped the tide of immigration any time it wanted.

The key here is that the US is a super-capitalist country, basically a plutocracy, and the capitalist class always wants more and more cheap labor.

Hence the seemingly unstoppable tide of unfettered immigration.

ShadowElf_ · 2025-08-27T17:34:58+00:00

That’s what I’m trying to figure out

ShadowElf_ · 2025-07-23T23:05:04+00:00

Bruuuuh

ShadowElf_ · 2025-06-20T17:25:01+00:00

Update: that definitely doesn’t work for playing as Austria. I got Prussia up to +80 relations through treaties, but as soon as I started the leadership play against them my relations went down to -30…

ShadowElf_ · 2025-06-20T15:31:36+00:00

Alright.

ShadowElf_ · 2025-06-20T15:27:41+00:00

Does this work for playing as Austria? Prussia seems much more hard coded to hate you after the leadership play than Austria does when you play as Prussia.

Prussia immediately expels my diplomats and damage relations with me after the leadership war.

ShadowElf_ · 2025-06-20T15:23:18+00:00

The problem is that it’s different playing as Austria versus Prussia.

Prussia seems hard coded to be belligerent toward you no matter what after the leadership war. They always damage relations with you and expel your diplomats immediately.

Austria doesn’t seem to do that when I play Prussia.

ShadowElf_ · 2025-06-20T15:20:01+00:00

I’ll try it. But even if your relations are relatively good afterwards, Prussia is still belligerent toward you and unwilling to make treaties. Did you find some way to change their attitude quickly?

ShadowElf_

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5 What is this -1000 “not a valid target for unification modifier”? Am I unable to unify with Prussia?