Quote Originally Posted by Monk View Post
In the middle of an HRE game at the moment. Started as the lowly count of Freisland on my way to forming Germany from within the HRE, breaking away, and hopefully completely taking over as a highly centralized state. Locking the HRE to Autonomous Vassals has had some interesting and very cool results. For one most of the AI there stays on Gavelkind, which means that a lot of the vassals stay broken up and small. Sorta like how the HRE eventually became as time went on. The new way to centralize after locking them out of CA is to play the diplomatic game. Switch to elective monarchy asap and slowly start forging claims on your neighbors. Its a very slow game but very fun. The HRE also doesn't blob out of control since they cant raise their CA anymore thanks to my changes, but they still have the potential to be really strong. All in all, great changes and something i'm keeping going forward.
My last game was Lübeck, may have to return there. Changes sound very, very interesting. I resorted to editing my save file to keep the HRE at autonomous vassals, but your tweak is much better.