How did France not snowball and curbstomp all those tiny states

Germans are united in their hatred of the French, it's the one thing they all agreed on

Perfidious Albion.

>I hate krauts who disagree with me but I hate other countries even more
t. Otto von Bismark.

>>3103125
jesus what a clusterfuck

>>3103125
They didn't think like Total War players.

And if they suddenly started conquering German areas without any justification, the German Princes would not be amused and would support the Holy Roman Emperor. And an united Holy Roman Empire was a much scarier entity than France.

Look it up. If there was a war in Europe at the times you're talking about, it was fought partly in Germany.

They were immune to invasion before the Prussians and Habsburgs centralized them.

>>3103277
>And an united Holy Roman Empire was a much scarier entity than France.
total demography of the empire is less than France. And overall the land yields less per square meter.

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>>3103125
They did
But then they invaded Russia and lost, which cancelled all their previous conquests...

>>3103351
Couldn't they have been harsher during the Treaty of Westphalia?

>>3103351
Should have just waited 5 years, rebuilt a massive fleet and invaded England first instead.

Napoopleon was a gigantic retard.

>>3103482
Yea if only he was as smart as you

It feared the Germanic warrior.

>>3103125
History isn't an eu4 game. They had no reason to take them out.

>>3103125
The HRE was a lot stronger than most give it credit for, mostly because in the case of war declared by an outside power, the Emperor generally had no problem getting the various duchies and princedoms to contribute to the war as they all had incentive to defend the emperor and their privileges given by the HRE.

A Holy Roman Empire was quite a fearsome force once said contributions made it to the field, with Austria and the princedoms fighting off the Ottoman Empire at the height of their power under Suleiman.

It wasn't until the Reformation erupted into the 30 years war did the HRE become too divided among itself to effectively project power, but this was parallel with the rise of Brandenburg-Prussia and the strengthening of the Austrian Empire. With the Prussians taking advantage of the divided empire to attempt uniting Germany, and ironically, France's dissolution of the HRE after Austerlitz only German unification more achievable without the Imperial system keeping them in check, later leaving the Prussian/German steamrolling of France a few decades later.

>>3103491
exactly. Too bad he wasn't. retard.

>>3103532
Which is why half of them kept going at war with the emperor and not listening to him nor pay him any taxes.

>>3103323
Well yeah but a total war between them would be disastrous for both.

>>3103133
fear*

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>>3103680
>having a good old war with your bros every now and again is a bad thing

Get a load of this guy.

>>3103277
HRE was big.
France was strong.

So no, I don't think it was 'scarier'

>>3103505
The what?

>>3103277
>They didn't think like Total War players.
Someone couldn't handle the banter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCR8xV7fb5w

>>3103125
But they did that. Look at the 30 years war, it's France bullying the Habsburgs without even declaring war for most of the time.

>>3103421
what are you talking about? The peace of Westphalia was more or less a status quo ante bellum, who would have enforced what on whom? No block was powerful enough to win the upper hand

>>3103706
Same thing tbqh