Expanding your Kingdom without Conquest Mali

[Brugia]

Hello there,
At first I don't play the english version of the game, so i hope i get the terminology correct.

I started a Game with Kingdom of Aragon and found out that i can expand my Kingdom pretty easy and circumventing the Recent Conquest Mali in the conquered counties, as long as i have the duchy title, that belongs to the county.
Not quite sure if working as intended, but to me it seems pretty exploitive, altough i don't know how well it can be used after the start.
That's what I've done:

First you need Medium/Moderate Crownauthority (the middle one), such that you can take titles from non-believers.
Then you conquer a County from a non-believer in your Duchy, with the Duchy Casus Belli. So that they become your Vassal.
Once they are your vasall, you revoke their title, if they revolt you just beat them up again and revoke their title after they have been imprisoned.
Now you have a new fully productive province under your own control.

It doesn't always work that well, because if you don't get a vasall, because the character that owned the county has another holding, you get the recent conquest mali in the county capital. But the rest of the holdings of the county are still without the mali.

 

[K-vald]

Sounds quite WAD and more like a legit conquest strategy than an exploit.

 

[BlckKnght]

Well, it seems a bit gamey that if you drive out a baron by force during your war, you get years of reduced taxes and zero levies, but if instead you vassalize him, then lock him up a few days after signing the peace agreement, the peasants and lower nobles will be totally content with whoever you put in his place.

I had this issue in a game a while back where I won a Crusade for El Alamein, but where I didn't get the whole duchy of Alexandria (mostly due to other Christian crusaders having some of the provinces occupied before my army arrived). When I took the last few bits in a separate war, I ended up with one county with Muslim baron-level vassals, who's titles I could revoke freely and who's territory were not horribly penalized in terms of taxes and levies due to the conquest. I later regretted giving those away, as the count I put over that province was able to conquer the two other neighboring counts since the others had no troops they could raise (then he rebelled every few years until I banished him).