How do I take gold shield status off?

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In a GC or IGC how can I make a major natino annexable?
I just got burned bad as the turks after a brutally long war with mameluks, austria, venice, bohemia, bavaria and wurtemburg.........I made seperate peace with venice, bavaria and wurtemburg but since austria had dragged all of them into the war i wanted some revenge. After losing around 70k infantry due to attrition in the sieges of austrian territory, I finally had it all. I proudly sent a diplomat to make peace when I realized......YOU CAN'T ANNEX AUSTRIA!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH.
After sustaining combat losses of only about 20k and attrition losses about 8x that in this long war, the realization that I can only take THREE of their territories came as a major letdown/blow.

So what do I do to make them legitimate annex material?

~Baron

 

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You can make the desired change in the .eug file. For example go to The Grand Campaign.eug and delete all of the nations except the one you want to play.

Delete from the name of the nation
POL = {

to the brackets--> }

 

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hrm......methinks a backup copy of the .eug would make sense, eh?

Good quote there, I love that movie (Patton)

 

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Originally posted by Gen. Suvorov
You can make the desired change in the .eug file. For example go to The Grand Campaign.eug and delete all of the nations except the one you want to play.

Delete from the name of the nation
POL = {

to the brackets--> }

This of course only works with new games. To edit a current savegame you need to do a lot more.
Look for how in my FAQ or in one of the sticky posts in the FAQ forum.