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So i started this Lithuanian ironman campaign yesterday. The goal was revoking privilegia as early as possible. I don't know if this is the earliest HRE subjugation in this patch but this is definitely the easiest way to do it by far.Revoking privilegia this early is vital, since the religious leagues otherwise could postpone the unification by 30 years or more, if you don't convert ( which is tiresome).Lithuania ismore op than Poland in early game. Starting as Lithuania i forced union on Poland as quickly as i could, easily done after reading Atwix's guide on Personal unions:This was made possible by the usual event where Poland gets pu with lithuania or choosing a local noble not firing, since i was playing Lithuania. Poland instead kept it's interregnum and later got a member of my dynasty on their throne after a couple of years. I then claimed their throne and forced my PU on them.After Poland joined pu i started blobbing as much as i could into christian lands outside of hre, mainly Russia. Meanwhile, i got the diplomatic idea group and - after allying both brandenburg and bohemia - became emperor:This Is basically how big I was by 1503:As you see this isn't very hard to achieve, i had OK to semi-bad heirs this entire time and didn't do things as efficiently as i could have. Like most ordinary runs I've done 2 reforms at this time.But this is where the the magic comes:First i add all provinces to HRE in 1503:Then after a bit more conquering and adding into HRE, I reach Adm tech 10 and form commonwealth:Upon forming commonwealth all provinces leave the empire and so the clicking begins.I add provinces to HRE until i get 50 IA, then i reform again three times until I've added all provinces and done 3(+2 from earlier) reforms:Once again I have run out of provinces to add. Sure, peace in the empire, soft, but i don't care about peace.After forming commonwealth i move my capital to warszawa, but the new capital doesn't seem right. After a long existential crisis i realize what's wrong - In my heart i'm not polish, I'm russian!And what do you do after realizing you are russian in your heart? Well, you move your capital to the most russian of russian places: Moscow. Suddenly you despise your old polish culture and proclaim that the russian culture is the only good culture. And what nation calls itself the Commonwealth? Doesn't even sound like a nation. No, the new nation shall be called:Once again I add provinces and reform, until revoke the privilegia, where i add as many as possible to get whole HRE as subject.: When culture shifting to russian you can pass the decision "western focus" since only krakow or danzig is required by russian culture nations. This is yet another benefit of this strategy.Finally the coolest dynasty colour:And there we have it. A true united Holy Roman (Russian) empire.Needless to say this could have been done earlier, by 1510 or so if had been more effective. Having this empire and all those vassals already i could easily conquer the rest of the world when i have the time.Finally, if you manage to revoke the privilegia earlier, you are more than welcome to post a screenshot in this thread