Quote Originally Posted by Sad Ronin
2 Radier:

In Russian they refer to "nemeckie". It were the regular hired troups collected from foreigners: germen, dutchs, scots and other. They were the true dogs of war had rich battle experience. They served for a good payment. And many of them have remained in Russia for ever.

2 RedCoat

Austria-Hungary is in our game.Look the list of factions. It is one of the strongest factions. It owns dynasty of Habsburgs.
Hungary still behaved very autonomously, and came close to independence on several occasions. I believe it was independent at the beginning of this time period as well...