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The Austrians would want all Hungary, including all Transylvania, for themselves in the HRE I presume? Interesting thought on the PLC aim to get Yedisan, Bessarabia, and Moldavia, to regain access to the Black Sea coast. If they succeed and hold in perpetuity (or till modernity) this cuts off a...

On a Catholic victory illustrative maps: close-up Europe-wide

@Skallagrim, @ATP and @Batrix2070 - Looking at the map in particular, perhaps your positions are not so drastically opposed and irreconcilable as you think they are and they may sound like on the surface. A point of agreement between the Skallagrim map and Batrix2070's reading of Polish...

good point - don't eff with the winged hussars

Even the Czech-speaking ones?

Even the Catholic ones? Does this restrain Barbary Piracy against Southern European coasts? Or is it like "hey, business is business" - with local emirs in North Africa wanting to profit from piracy and European (especially non-Catholic European) sailors tempted to go renegade and work with...

Nice map - What's the Protestant-dominant new version of the Holy Roman Empire called? And I presume anything Dutch, Swiss, and French is excluded from its territorial limits? It's new electoral system? With this fundamentally divergence opening up in 1643, I wonder if this offers up a...

I’ve speculated that an influx of German Protestant refugees to early Georgia could boost the local social constituency to keep the colony slavery free. Similarly cheap indentures for working tobacco lands in western Virginia and North Carolina could reduce the market for slaves there. By the...

I've speculated before that massive over performance by the Catholic side, combined with institutional pro-Catholic bias, anti-Protestant persecution could lead to massive Protestant German emigration to English and Dutch overseas colonies, possibly cheapening the cost of free labor a great deal...