Dev Diary 2019-04-12

Hello and welcome to the development diary for 3.9.3, on early access now and due to be publicly available on April 26th. I do promise, it will be out April 26th regardless of Orthodox Good Friday and regardless of any planned Paradox releases the day before which I will be feverishly modding almost immediately. 3.9.3 is primarily a mission pack focusing on potential German formables (including Germany itself) for their missions.

Saxony
Starting with the easy one, the Saxony mission branch is based on their historical expansion and is relatively simple one-province-at-a-time buildup.



Saxonia
The bigger Saxony mission tree is for Saxonia, the formable nation to restore the historical duchy of Saxony (much larger than the OPM you see in 1309). Restoring the Duchy of Saxony is a decision available to any Lower Saxon or Upper Saxon culture nations and gets the following mission tree with focuses to first restore the entirety of the historical duchy and then go on to form a unified German nation.



Lotharingia
Restoration of Lotharingia is a decision available to Dutch or Moselfranconian cultures and represents the toughest formable of the restoration states since it requires the seats of three Archbishops; Lothar's kingdom stretched from the Low Countries and his capital at Aachen down to the north of Italy and the mission tree aims for you to restore all these lands in order to reclaim the glory of the kingdom.



Franconia
Restoring Franconia (East Francia in many historical sources) is available to East Franconian and Rhine Franconian cultures; the historical kingdom had vast holdings in Germany and Austria so this tree pits you against some of the biggest players in the HRE and, like Saxonia, envisions the formation of Germany as the end-goal.



Swabia
Of the restoration decisions available in the HRE, Swabia was the smallest former state and as such her mission tree, while envisioning expansion, envisions it within the context of the HRE with the result that Swabia (unlike the others) has missions for claiming the Imperial title and enacting reforms (similar to the trees many HRE princes I've done). Swabia is available to Alemannic culture states.



Germany
The requirements for the formation of Germany via the decision haven't changed (though the two nations above who had the formation added to their mission trees don't get the decision any more) but Germany now does get a set of missions. Since Germany as such was never formed during the time period here, I chose missions that reflected her later historical ambitions with regard to some amount of colonization but also the complete unification of all the German peoples representing something close (if achieved) to Germany on the eve of the first world war.