This is my Holy Roman Empire (Heiliges Römisches Reich) in Europa Universalis IV at the end of the game, 1820. I have united the Holy Roman Empire with Austria in 1563. Click CC for in-video commentar, game-history,analysis, etc. ! (available in English, German(Deutsch),Hungarian(Magyar) ). My first goal was to destroy and conquer France. My strategy was the "Divine et Imperia!" (Divinde and rule!), so i have forced France to split into smaller countries. Then i counquered them all. Then i went to war with Spain to conquer the Spain-owned provinces of the Italian Peninsula. During the war i forced Spain to release Galicia,Catalunya,Aragon and Sicilia. I have became best friends with them, vasallised them and later i annexed Sicily to complete my Italian Concuest. I took some danish and 1 polish territory (Poznan, beacuse there's a salt mine, that gives me salt trade bonus.) . 1670 i have leaded a personal union with Great Britain. It was a great surprise, beacuse i don't really wanted to conquer the British Isles. But the plan has changed, i annexed GB around 1740-50. Poland tried to win a war against me, but the outcome was an Imperial victory. I liberated Krakow ('cus why not? An amazing City-State in the heart of Europa), Moldova and Hungary, i vasallised them too, but not annexed them. I don't conquered more provinces in Europe, beacuse my goal was to have flourish,advanced provinces. And it wasn't absuluteley necessary, beacuse i were the strongest and richest nation in the game. I haven't got the best tech, beacuse after my European Conquest were complete, i focused on the national ideas and colonisation. I have gathered the trade in Antwerpen, and then i colledted it from there. I specialised the provinces in that trade node to be more valuable and have more trade power. At the startup i were a catholic state, i survived the reformation and i remained catholic(Katholisch on the map) for all the time. I had only 2 provinces in South-America (got from GB). And i had some provinces in North-Western Africa and some in the Kongo region. I had 2 bigger and 2 smaller islands in the South-Eastern Asian Region, i used them to collect from trade there. (trade node Malacca) I had there a small vasall too. Just to make the Spain angry, how they can't control that entire island :D Thoose provinces were specialised on trade too. And i also got some North-american (canadian) province from GB. The strangest and funniest thing in the game: I were a big Empire and my goverment form still being Arcduchy! (Erzherzogtum) My diplomatic relations: some friends, some vasalls, much more enemies and yeah, Haiti and Quebec BFF! I had a very very strong economy. ~250 tax-, ~320 production- and ~300 trade income. (once trade income was over 600) And i had a really big army (~560 unit/ 934) and a quite big fleet (~350/512). This is all i achieved in about 400 years (1444-1820). Historically, The Holy Roman Empire was a multi-ethnic and complex union of territories in Central Europe existing from 962 to 1806. The territories making up the Empire lay predominantly in Central Europe. At its peak in 1050, under Emperor Henry III, it included the Kingdom of Germany, the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Kingdom of Italy, and the Kingdom of Burgundy. The Holy Roman Empire never achieved the extent of political unification formed in France, evolving instead into a decentralized, limited elective monarchy composed of hundreds of smaller sub-units, principalities, duchies, counties, Free Imperial Cities, and other domains. The power of the emperor was limited, and while the various princes, lords and kings of the Empire were vassals and subjects who owed the emperor their allegiance, they also possessed an extent of privileges that gave them de facto sovereignty within their territories.

• published: 23 Oct 2013
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