Hanseatic League (1100-1669)

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Hanseatic League was powerful merchant league in northern Europe and northern Germany.The Hansa was founded in the twelfth century by an alliance between the northern towns of Hamburg and Luebeck which lay on opposite sides of the base of the Danish peninsula. Later league grows to 90 city´s and controls trading between Germany and Russia.

While most of the cities in the Hansa were within the domains of local feudal lords and the citizens of these cities were feudal vassals Luebeck was one of the few free cities or more properly, it was an imperial city which owed its allegiance to the emperor alone. This in itself gave Luebeck an advantage over many of the other cities. When added to that are the position it held geographically and the access it had to the rich herring fisheries its predominant position in the alliance is understandable. Almost all trade to the Baltic, either coming or going, went through the port of Luebeck.

But my problem is that they are not in the game...and I want them.

But I do not want them as an independent faction but I want them have army´s..? Because they had wars against
pirates as well kingdoms.

So could this be mod and how should I do it..?

Does any one have historical point´s

Sites and lot´s of good info:
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~baronfum/hansa.html
http://depts.washington.edu/baltic/papers/hansa.html
http://www.bartleby.com/65/ha/Hanseati.html
http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/hansa.htm

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This forum for mod devlopment threads only moved to alchemsit lab...LOS

[Nomad]

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Me also,(would like "The Hanseatic league in MTW) Although the "Hansa" was obviuosly a Merchantile non military institution, Its imense wealth (deriving from its farflung trade network) could afford the sizable armies it employed. Although these were often mercenary.
Without creating a new faction which wouldn't really be appropraite A way of reflecting the Hansa's nature could be to introduce a new building e.g "The Hansa Guild" only available after e.g trading post2 and what_ever3, or make HRE Trading posts and maybe ports produce Hansa units (I think thats possible). So from what your saying and asking the answer is probably to create some specialized units and assign them to relevant buildings and provinces e.g Saxony, Prussia, Livonia and the rest of the Northern HRE.Producable with e.g Trade post 2 or 3 plus the usual buildings (i.e that similar such units require.)
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Maybe this will help,
Nomad.