You might as well accept, fighting both of them is hopeless.Īfter that, annex every German Minor you have cores on, every little bit helps. Taking influence techs will help with this.Īs the Danubian Federation, Bohemia and Burgundy will attack you almost immediately to cut you down to size. Either that, or get lucky with sphering, but the AI seems very keen on keeping Germany under its control. However, considering you'll most likely have to fight both Bohemia and Burgundy to do it, that will be difficult. Of course, if the event doesn't trigger, it is possible to form the Danubian Confederation manually, by sphering all cores of Austria, Bavaria, Switzerland, and Wurttemburg. If you accept (and I highly suggest you do), you will take over The stronger you are, the higher your chances of being offered it. The two candidates that are usually offered this are Austria or Bavaria.
It is an ideal port from which you can start a colonial empire from, which will help you achieving great power status.Ībout 20 years after the Liberal revolutions occur around 1848, the states of Germany, with the help of either the DM, Spain, or Poland, will unite into the Danubian Federation after a series of events, with one of the german states being offered the crown of Germany. While doing this, if Venice seems vulnerable at any time, try to grab Istria from them. If industry and army size alone doesn't quite get you there, opt for prestige spamming, research 3-4 prestige techs quickly, giving you prestige events. Make good use of national focuses to keep your literacy rate up and your factories growing. With this power, achieving German unity, while difficult, will make you extremely powerful.Īustria has low starting population, barely scraping 1M, but it has a good starting industry and great industrial RGOs. However, Austria is one of the best candidates for a player for form the Danubian Confederation with, the other being Bavaria. A diplomatic powerhouse in our timeline, Bohemia managed to outmaneuver Austria in this timeline and gain leadership of the HRE.
Austria is a Danubian (South-German in the vanilla game) cultured secondary power located south of Bohemia, north of Venice, west of Hungary and east of Bavaria.