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In 1608 Elector Johann Sigismund and the Estates of Brandenburg attempted to implement military reforms based on those of Maurice van Nassau. A peasant militia was drawn up and Brandenburg was with a standing militia of 5,500 men.

Unfortunately after just 2 years the modern-style system was abandon and Brandenburg returned to the old system of bartering with Nobles for small amounts of soldiers and hiring lanskert mercenaries to make up for the numbers like almost all other german states.

But what if these reforms stick? How does the Thiry Years War play out if Brandenburg is able to better defend itself (basically if it isn't just a walkover?) Maybe a war could make them stick or even just fear of the war to come?
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