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[jimmy olsen]

Hear! Hear!

 

Bow before your Hohenzollern overlords Jos.

[jimmy olsen]

EU3 seems much more difficult to edit a save game file than HOI2

[ulmont]

EU3 seems much more difficult to edit a save game file than HOI2

EU3 is actually more forgiving.  What are you doing?

[MadImmortalMan]

EU3 seems much more difficult to edit a save game file than HOI2

You filthy cheater! 

[jimmy olsen]

EU3 seems much more difficult to edit a save game file than HOI2

EU3 is actually more forgiving.  What are you doing?

I was just whining, it looks about the same to me. I was just having difficulty finding the section of code I wanted to edit.

What I'm gonna try and do is edit out George II. Make Sophia Queen of Great Britain and put Hanover in personal Union under Fredrick William. Then edit it so the appropriate countries are at war/allied with each other.

So I can play this scenario

August 14th 1728

Europe was once again at war. The tragic death of George Augustus, heir to George I had set the wheels of bloodshed in motion years ago. With George I's passing in 1727, his daughter Sophia, the Queen in Prussia had inherited the throne of Great Britain and Ireland while his brother Ernest Augustus inherited the Electorate of Hanover.

Ernest Augustus was old however and without issue. Given Salic law, the Electorate should have passed down to Augustus William of Brunswick-Lüneburg. But he too was old, 66 and without issue. His younger brother Louis Rudolph was 57 and similarly without an heir. One had to go to Louis Rudolph's first cousin and husband of his youngest daughter, Ferdinand Albert to find an heir with any sons.

It was intolerable to Ernest Augustus that Hanover should pass so far down the line of a branch family that had separated centuries ago. In defiance of Salic law he willed that his sister's son Frederick should inherit the Electorate.

Augustus William protested and looked to the French for aid.  Louis XV saw this has his opportunity to cripple British and Austrian power in Western Europe. Hanover would be detached from the British sphere and the pro French Stanisław Leszczyński would be placed on the Polish throne.

Austria though it ordinarily would have combated any attempt to solidify Prussian power in northern Germany, was forced by circumstance to acquiesce given the far graver threat of Poland falling under a king beholden to France.

In Britain, though Walpole deplored getting involved in such a continental struggle, rising tensions with the Bourbon powers, particularly Spain, led to the enthusiastic participation of Britain in the coming struggle.

With the death Ernest August, Fredrick inherited Hanover (though at only 16 his father Fredrick William would rule as regent until his majority), and Europe plunged into war. France and Brunswick declared war on Hannover and in Poland Stanisław Leszczyński seized power in a coup supported by the majority of the nobility.

Britain, Prussia, Hanover, Saxony, Austria, and Russia
Vs.
France, Spain, Poland, Brunswick and Sardinia-Piedmont

[jimmy olsen]

EU3 seems much more difficult to edit a save game file than HOI2

You filthy cheater! 

Are you paying attention at all, I want to play a certain Alt-hist scenario.

[jimmy olsen]

It does seem easier once you get used to the differences.

[jimmy olsen]

I've hit a bump. I broke the Saxony-Polish personal Union and now there's no ruler of Poland. I'm not sure why it hasn't reverted back to the Stanisław Leszczyński since he's the last King listed.

[Admiral Yi]

Stanley Kaplan, inventor of the college test prep course, is dead at 90.

He started the course because he was upset about Jewish quotas.  He was second in his class at CCNY but couldn't get accepted to medical school.

NY Senator Chuck Schumer's first job was working for Kaplan.

The company was sold a while back to the Washington Post Co.  It is their biggest money maker.

[Josquius]

Jewish quotas?
This to encourage more Jews into education? (doubt there'd be mujch call...) Or less? Odd

[Capetan Mihali]

Jewish quotas?
This to encourage more Jews into education? (doubt there'd be mujch call...) Or less? Odd

Limiting the amount of Jews in various fields, esp. higher education.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota

[Admiral Yi]

Barry Hussein announced he will re-nominate Bernanke when his term is up in 5 months.

[jimmy olsen]

I've hit a bump. I broke the Saxony-Polish personal Union and now there's no ruler of Poland. I'm not sure why it hasn't reverted back to the Stanisław Leszczyński since he's the last King listed.

Ulmont, I summon you!

[Malthus]

Jewish quotas?
This to encourage more Jews into education? (doubt there'd be mujch call...) Or less? Odd

To encourage (or rather enforce) less. Sometimes took the form of a hard quota and sometimes Jews needed higher marks than non-Jews to get in.

In my parent's day, a Jew in Canada needed much higher marks to get into medical school than non-Jews (with the ironic unintended result that Jewish docs were generally thought to be better). 

[Admiral Yi]

The irony of course is that in trying to circumvent one form of discrimination he created another.