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I wanted to attack Dithmarschen, but I cant, because it says "you are allied with the emperor and the emperor recently has gone to war."
that war is as ally of Hungary against somebody else. Do I now have to wait (maybe for years) till I can have my war?
Or how long does "emperor has recently gone to war" apply?
 
Lordkaiser said:
I wanted to attack Dithmarschen, but I cant, because it says "you are allied with the emperor and the emperor recently has gone to war."
that war is as ally of Hungary against somebody else. Do I now have to wait (maybe for years) till I can have my war?
Or how long does "emperor has recently gone to war" apply?
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I assume Hungary also pulled in the Emperor? It is to prevent exploits where you call in the Emperor, lock him in an endless war and kill of HRE minors meanwhile.
I don't think there is a timer on it but I might be wrong.
 
Ojf said:
Is there a benefit or bonus for capturing and coring every province in a state?
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The benefit of capturing and coring every province in an area is that it's a more efficient use of your state slots (or your territory threshold) than capturing the same number of provinces split across multiple areas.
 
does low morale affect artillery effectiveness at siege?
I just got mil tech 16, am in a major war and sieging but don't expect a land battle for the next couple of months.
I'm hoping now is a good time to upgrade arty without slowing down my sieges.
 
Lordkaiser said:
I wanted to attack Dithmarschen, but I cant, because it says "you are allied with the emperor and the emperor recently has gone to war."
that war is as ally of Hungary against somebody else. Do I now have to wait (maybe for years) till I can have my war?
Or how long does "emperor has recently gone to war" apply?
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I think it last 2 months .. not sure though

egill said:
does low morale affect artillery effectiveness at siege?
I just got mil tech 16, am in a major war and sieging but don't expect a land battle for the next couple of months.
I'm hoping now is a good time to upgrade arty without slowing down my sieges.
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effect On siege rolls is dependant On amount of artillery. Not morale.
 
atwix said:
On siege rolls is dependant On amount of artillery. Not morale.
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Actually if you have killed all enemy troops and its only remaining provinces are forts, and so the enemy can not raise troops, you can even decrease army maintenance to 0, it won't affect the siege speed. It could save money especially in the early game. On the other hand, your army will not recover casualties, and so attrition may deplete its rank so you have to have more troops than needed to siege it.

But it is still useful, imagine that you start in Ireland and are at war with 3 OPMs with an ally of your own. You can kill the enemy armies, let one unit on each fort and then start to siege the enemy OPM (lvl 1 fort) with 4k men (or let 1k and you ally troops) while turning maintenance to 0 (if you have a good ally network for defence, of course). Sieges at start (without artillery) can be very long, and so you will save some tens of ducats, that is a good thing in the very early game.
 
Ojf said:
Is there a benefit or bonus for capturing and coring every province in a state?
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Other than maximizing the use of your available states, no. I use most of my states for very rich provinces to maximize their effect, and in this case I will usally take all provinces in the state in the end. But there are cases where you're only interested in a part of the state, like for example African gold mines where you will have in the same state crap-poor savana provinces. Stating the province allows you to use a development edict and so have 10% MP reduction when developing the gold mine, and will also increase the gold revenue.
 
I want to get Teutonic Order as my vasall, but most of their provinces I need for myself.
Right now Poland, who is also my rival, has eaten half of Teutonic.
Can I do the following:

Step 1: Make T.O. my enemy and eat all of Teutonic.
At the same time eat stuff from Poland, but let the Province "Chelmo" in their rule.
Step 2: After I made T.O. cease to exist, I fight a war against Poland and force them to release T.O., which then should only have the 1 province "Chelmno" and should also all of the sudden love me, and be able to be diplo-vasallized.

Okay?
 
Lordkaiser said:
I want to get Teutonic Order as my vasall, but most of their provinces I need for myself.
Right now Poland, who is also my rival, has eaten half of Teutonic.
Can I do the following:

Step 1: Make T.O. my enemy and eat all of Teutonic.
At the same time eat stuff from Poland, but let the Province "Chelmo" in their rule.
Step 2: After I made T.O. cease to exist, I fight a war against Poland and force them to release T.O., which then should only have the 1 province "Chelmno" and should also all of the sudden love me, and be able to be diplo-vasallized.

Okay?
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That won't work, because someone who has a core on your lands has -1000 reasons for the purpose of diplomatic vassalisation.
 
mechanical_Critter said:
That won't work, because someone who has a core on your lands has -1000 reasons for the purpose of diplomatic vassalisation.
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So, what should I do, if I want Teutonic as my Vasall and I want many of their provinces?
Take what I want in a Peace Deal and also Force-Vassalice them? That will work, right, even if I have their cores?
As long as I have more Military they wont rebell to much.
 
Lordkaiser said:
So, what should I do, if I want Teutonic as my Vasall and I want many of their provinces?
Take what I want in a Peace Deal and also Force-Vassalice them? That will work, right, even if I have their cores?
As long as I have more Military they wont rebell to much.
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Yes if you want a vassal and some of its cores the easiest way is to ask forced vassalization in a war. Actually, if this the only war you have, it is probably less costly in terms of MPs and warscore to take all provinces of the future vassal less one, force vassalize it and then give your vassal all provinces you don't want. At the end you will have paid less MPs, used less warscore so could possibly ask more money or prestige, both that you can use to decrease liberty desire and also have a less rebellous vassal thanks to the fact that you returned it its cores.

Another possibility is to diplo vassalize TO and once it is your vassal to take a province by force, but it will only work for one province and TO will probably go very rebellious after that. Also doing this will still require you to pay for coring the province, contrary to a diplo assimilation.
 
Lordkaiser said:
So, what should I do, if I want Teutonic as my Vasall and I want many of their provinces?
Take what I want in a Peace Deal and also Force-Vassalice them? That will work, right, even if I have their cores?
As long as I have more Military they wont rebell to much.
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You can demand lands and force vassalise in the same peace deal.
 
Trying to get the Achievement for finishing the Spanish mission tree but I'm having a little bit of trouble with one of them that requires me to put some holy orders in Mexico - my biggest colonial subject there (unfortunately there's multiple thanks to Portugal / Castile PUs), seems to be refusing to core it's land. It's cored a bunch and stated more, but it has multiple states that aren't being full-cored for me to place the holy orders.
I figured this was possibly due to them being low on income / mana, but it's been a long damn time now and still no progress despite me subsidising them.

Any idea if this is a bug and / or if there's anything I can do on my half to influence it? I was tempted to try making it desire liberty so I could fight them and give some land to another colony in the area, but I'm fat enough as Spain that I doubt they'd ever declare.

Edit: Turned out to just be insanely admin starved by the look of it - took a LONG time but they eventually cored everything.
 
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It is possible that the issue is that the AI is using a colonist to buff a province dev and so is doing nothing else, including coring, on it.

Rather than waiting for your CN to declare independence, you can rather release it and then attack it after the truce, and take the parts you need for the mission.
 
Is there any reason the States General reform isn't working?
It goes to the all the way i form Bharat.
My DLC was
MOH
El Dorado
Dharma
Wealth of Nation
Arts of War
Common Sense
Rights of Man
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Altaraiser said:
Is there any reason the States General reform isn't working?
It goes to the all the way i form Bharat.
My DLC was
MOH
El Dorado
Dharma
Wealth of Nation
Arts of War
Common Sense
Rights of Man
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My first guess would be that you don't own Res Publica. The Dutch Republic mechanics were part of that DLC.
 
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