Quirk wrote:I have another question regarding events. As I am playing as Prussia, I wonder if the war for Schleswig-Holstein is resolved via events? I am in early 1852 now and nothing happened so far. Does anyone know, if I have to declare war myself to start the conflict or does it still happen? Historically seen, the war was fought between 1848 and 51. Might there be a bug, so it just doesn't fire?
Quick look is the set are in the 'Duchies Crisis' file.
My interpretation is the London Protocol 1852 can fire any turn after 1/1/1852 but has a low probability (5%) so may take some time.
This will lower German and Austrian relationships with Denmark.
This is followed by the Schleswig Holstein 1863 event which should give you and Austria CBs on Denmark - as well as worsening relations again. This can happen between 1863 and 1865 with a very high chance. Its not connected to the London Protocol event so will happen regardless of that one.
The decision tree then flips to Austria. If its human it gets a complex set of choices, if its AI it gets the Duchies War event with a war. If you join in (which I'd advise) the Duchies Captured event will kick in transferring the Duchies from Denmark to Holstein.
This then sets off the reform crisis 1866 event which should give a human controlled Prussia an event that can trigger annexation (a Prussian AI does this automatically)
You'll end up with bad relations with Austria and the two provinces but around 1866.
I think the only major change I made to this chain was to remove the related link to the Franco-Prussian war event chain.
Just writing that lot makes me understand why Bismarck claimed no-one understood all this ...
But if my reading is right, it should all start around 1863, the London Protocol being not really that important.
I also think it looks like the earlier war has been set to one side. There is no harm to forcing this chain but you may find it hard to actually annex the provinces without some of the scripting.