How do I accomplish a millitary annexation?

[unmerged(3520)]

Hi guys.

I've got a newbie question for you all!

I'm playing the "great northern war" mission as Denmark. I have taken over the control of the only province owned by Holstein called Holstein! I read in the manual that you could only take over a capital province if you controlled all of the enemy's provinces which I in this case do. When I try to negotiate peace I don't get the option to select an annexation. How do I annex Holstein?

 

[unmerged(2264)]

First - You must make sure "Forced Annexation" is set to ON in your game settings. Then you must take ALL of the countries provences. When you go to offer peace - It will give you the option to annex it.

 

[Griffon]

If Holstein is the only province and the capital, and you've overrun them, then the only reason the do not accept your annexation is because they might have an ally somewhere that they expect will save them. or maybe they control one of your province.

1. make sure that Holstein does not have ANY province left
2. make seperate peace with Holstein's allies
3. it should work. Be ready to get a BB penalty though

 

[unmerged(1266)]

Jimbo:

If Holstein has a colonial outpost out there somewhere, you'll have to take that, too. Hope that hasn't occurred....

Ciao,

Paul

 

[unmerged(2464)]

There are some "newbie mistakes" that I made in the beginning:

Make sure that they don't control any of your provinces.
Make sure you have diplomats.
Make sure you haven't send a diplomat in the past month.

 

[unmerged(2609)]

Originally posted by RL14
There are some "newbie mistakes" that I made in the beginning:

Make sure that they don't control any of your provinces.
Make sure you have diplomats.
Make sure you haven't send a diplomat in the past month.

Make sure they don't own any stupid islands, which is a major bummer if you don't even have a port (Austria).

Make sure that annexing the whole thing isn't insane. If you annex a 7-province country you have a permanent CB against, that's 7 BB points. If you take three provinces now, three five years from now, and the last one five years from then, that's one point, and you can use the other 6 points taking 6 other provinces from someone else.

bruce

 

[unmerged(2232)]

In addition to the suggestions above, your problem could also be caused by the fact that only the alliance leader for a war (offensive or defensive -- defined as the issuer of the original DOW or its target) can annex another country militarily. If you joined in as an ally into somebody else's conflict, your out of luck as far as total annexation goes.