Hey, this sound like a good scenario.
For the situation in the German realms.
Regarding the prussians..
I definitely would prefer the 1520 solution for Germany.
For Österreich: I would make them a constant enemy of the Ottomans and maybe a constant ally of the Spanish. The family of the Habsburg hold the Spanish crown until Spanish succession war in 1700.
These were just a few suggestions. I would really love to play this scenario.
(1) Actually the historical Prussia was founded in 1525 when the head of the Teutonic knights became Protestant.
Thanks a lot for your time and suggestions, ok here is what i think..
I was thinking about Prussia, and there is no chance it could be added into this scenario, just for historical sake, i had confused its founding years as you are doing now with the Duchy of Prussia, that have nothing to do with Prussia, except that it was the excuse to create a Kingdom inside the Empire Boundaries.
Read this..
It was taken from here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia
So if Prussia was founded in 1701, there is little to do with em if we start in 1492, 1520, or whatever year we start, its a long gap.
For example with Mughal and Safavid their creation is arround the 1520s so its easy to add em even before that.
About the Hanse, since this game is about Exploration and Commerce, i tough it was a good idea to include this as a CIV, the Hanseatic League was one of the greatest merchant organizations by the 14th Century, by the start of the Scenario Lubeck was one of the greates trade centers in Europe, Only Veneto could compete with em.
Basically the hanse existed until 1862, way Long after this Scenario ends
It would be great to give em a Powerfull merchant machinery at the Begining, but later, they will decline, in favour of nations like the Dutch, the English and Portugal.
I don't think Bavaria should be added to Austria by any time, they weren't that close anyway..
The German Princes kinda emulate the neutral German Principalities, Austria is pretty well modded for the era, even added Czec cities to them, The Hanse is the Civ that Balance the German Princes, so they are not a big Threat, but not that easy to get dominated as well, and maybe they should be locked in an alliance (Hanse and Princes).
Making the Roman Empire, would be madness, as they didn't worked as one in most situations, even more in this years, with Reformation and all.. Ideas?
As for the endless war with the Austrians and Ottomans, well it would be great to mod it, i don't know if CIV 3 Handles events as CIV 2 did, but setting a locked alliance war from start, will doom one of the two civs in a few years, so even when i would love too do it, i don't know how to handle this yet..
About the Habsburg, yes i totally agree with you they were United under one King, but they were Separated kingdoms, Joining em would create a pretty unbalance situation, creating a Locked Alliance might work, but still this Alliance will be huge.. Any ideas are welcome on this as well.
I'm open to suggestions, but please have in count game balance and game mechanics, not all political situatons are so easy to reflect on CIV 3...
Notes: Have in mind this Scenario is about Trade and Exploration, thats is why some of the choices i make will try to reflect and encourage an Exploration, Conquest and Trade game, all the countries not involved in this aspects are here to add flavour to the game, and historical reality.
Edit:
Here is a map of the European map over Germany, maybe you can give suggestions, but you can see, how i gave more Priority to Netherlands than German Princes for example.
Also you would see i added Koenigsberg, this was to allow me to create Prussia if i decided to do so.
suggested them.
well build ship, and much used by the Country's of northern Europe) was by no means an oceangoing ship.
