Kaiser Wilhelm
Banned
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to unify Germany under Hanover instead of Prussia with a POD no earlier than 1500.
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Different Congress of Vienna: instead of Rhineland, Prussia is given Duchy of Warsaw and over time changes into Prusso-Poland, Rhineland is given to Hannoverians, who had to keep eye on the French now, when Prussians keep their on Russia.Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to unify Germany under Hanover instead of Prussia with a POD no earlier than 1500.
I am not sure that's a good POD for Hanover to unite Germany, since Hanover was allied to Prussia in that war and would probably not come out of it unscathed.POD - let Tsarica Yelizavieta (Empress Elizabeth) live 6 months longer - there will be no Prussia to unite Germany ...
As long as it survives and Prussia is gutted ...I am not sure that's a good POD for Hanover to unite Germany, since Hanover was allied to Prussia in that war and would probably not come out of it unscathed.
You need to use a POD before the 19. century. The Kingdom of Hannover hasn't enough power to become the main force behind unification. But earlier PODs are possible.
With a different 18. century (or before) Hannover could gain step by step from peace treaty to peace treaty more and more territory. Hannover need to gain territories in the Rhineland, which would justify to give Hannover the entire Rhineland after a different version of the Napoleonic wars.
You would need the British Kings and Parliament to decide that expanding Hanover is more in their interests than expanding their overseas empire, or to give Britain a few very one sided wars during the 1700s where they can grab land overseas and push for more land in their German principality. Neither of these is easy to achieve especially since you would need to curb Brandenburg-Prussia's growing power quickly and historically they were Britains ally in the mid to late 1700s (and a member of the empire prior to then.)How could this happen?
You would need the British Kings and Parliament to decide that expanding Hanover is more in their interests than expanding their overseas empire, or to give Britain a few very one sided wars during the 1700s where they can grab land overseas and push for more land in their German principality. Neither of these is easy to achieve especially since you would need to curb Brandenburg-Prussia's growing power quickly and historically they were Britains ally in the mid to late 1700s (and a member of the empire prior to then.)
The Welfs somehow inherit Jülich-Cleves-Berg in the early 16th century, became a strong presence in North-Western Germany and somehow manage to get involved with the Dutch? The land they would control with this inheritance would look something like this:
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Some timely deaths is all it takes as far as I can tell, better earlier than later, I think the Welfs carry enough prestige to be able to inherit those lands but I'm not an expert.Ah. That’s interesting. Thanks. Anyone have an idea how that’s possible?
Not at all (then again I'm not a fan of painting anything ASB that doesn't require divine intervention,) you just need a different environment in Britain because historically the Brits were skeptical of the Hanoverian Kings using British power within Germany for German ideals. If you get Britain allied with, say, Russia or (a different) Poland in the 17th and 18th centuries instead of one of the German countries that way they can pick at Northern Germany without hurting their ally Prussia or pissing off their (once) ally Austria. You would probably need to start around the English Civil War and maybe have France and Spain be more successful in North America so the English can be kept at the coast. You pretty much need a better balance of power outside of Europe so the Brits are okay settling for German lands (either that or have the British empire conquer North America and India before the end of the 1600s which might actually come close to being ASB.)Would you consider it borderline ASB?