I'm not too fussed on this game. I think Austria was a poor choice of Civs, but at the time I was probably expecting more players. If anyone is really enjoying it I'm happy to play on as it is a good scenario.
Why was Austria a bad choice? I guess the reason so few scenarios take this specific time interval into consideration is that there aren't very exciting possibilities here.
Spain and Austria start out allied, and they dwarf any thinkable combination of foes. Austria and Spain not sticking together would not be very historically accurate I would think.
Swedish and Denish one player
Spanish and Austrians one player
And France and England one player
And maybe Ottomans for one player too, but if not it should be forbidden to conquer Ottoman cities
With 3 players you could play all European powers.
I think in this game Spain already won, they got many new territories and have Standing Army wonder (Sun Tzu's)