Frederick V was removed from power and exiled. Thirdly was the umbrage against involvement of the Turks.Bohemia was crushed. Once Emperor, Ferdinand set about gathering allies, including his Habsburg nephew (who happened to be the king of Spain). Secondly, the Holy Roman Emperor Matthias promptly died in March 1619, and left his realm to none other than the ousted Ferdinand. An army was even sent to siege Vienna itself. The war might have remained a localized Bohemian rebellion except for some major conflating factors: other member states of the Protestant Union took it as a sign for a general rebellion, and began to occupy parts of Austria. The revolution seemed to have succeeded marvelously. The Protestant Elector of the Palatinate, Frederick V was installed as the new monarch. Bohemia was taken by Protestants, and the zealous Catholic King Ferdinand was sent packing.

The scenario opens on the Bohemian Revolt, which got off to a spectacular start by throwing a few Catholic representatives of the the Emperor out of a window. Often considered one of the most destructive wars in history, the Thirty Years' War was both a Protestant-versus-Catholic religious war, as well as a Bourbon-versus-Habsburg war between the great dynasties of Europe.

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