From Brandenburg`s perspective, none. Grand Captain. These are in the baltic trade region. I would appreciate if you could make a guide like this one but more centered on the starting date of 1492. Lost my first coalition war, learned the hard way and won the rest :)This is a good guide for the first 10 years or so of the game.
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So when i finally learned just siege your goal with one army and make sure your capital isnt taken with another you can win basically any war. Poland, Riga, Teuton, Livonians, and Pomerania are all nations that can form Prussia. if I remember correctly) and you can't get unlawful territory when you conquer land, because you are the emperor. This is crucial for expanding within the HRE and very usefull for your first expansions towards the east.
The difficulty, and I'd swear this is new since last time I tried it a couple years ago, is that very shortly after the first war with TO (in which I claim Neumark) this "Danzig" nation always seems to form early, and get vassalized by Poland.
This means: getting rid of the smaller nations around you and securing sufficient income.
Maybe it is not the most usefull, it is however the most pleasing when you rule over Europe starting with just three provinces. This guide seeks to guide the player through the first 10 years while aiming at maximising Brandenburg's strength and fulfilling all territorial requirements to form Prussia later. Poland is also BFF with Lithuania, and together they are nearly unstoppable.
Brandenburg used to be the most OP choice when forming Prussia, but it has since been more rewarding (i've found) to do it as literally anyone else. While my goal is to form Germany, I actually took exploration ideas since I was in a good position to colonize (and took Finistere from Brittany so I was more in range to colonize) And have a lot of New World colonies.
Or just ally Poland and claim that land in the diplo screen as a must have province.
I have lots of great plans for a guide but I just don't get to it. *If you do not own Cossacks the trust mechanic is also disabled, therefore the strategy may work without The Cossacks DLCA tactic guide for 1.27 was really needed for Brandenburg. If you're larger anyway, great power vs great power wars get awkward late game. In closing, I heavily recommend becoming Emperor at least for a chance at the Burgundian Inheritance because if you do get it, you will just be unbelievable powerful, and there is no reason not to be Emperor before the reformation hits.Meta flair is for things related to the community or sub itself. All rights reserved.
And Germany makes all German cultures accepted within your lands so it would be a wast to let Austria and especialy the Netherlands with there ports.
Altough it is not to hard to form Prussia as Brandenburg, I tought it would be usefull to share some strategy's with you all. I think that there are two campaigns needed before you can form the German Empire (four to make full use out of it), just two of them to form Prussia. Outdated guide, but forming Prussia is always a blast. I hope it assisted you in your conquest.
This is the campaign that will allow you to form Germany.