Are these going to be included as puppets later on? I'm currently only doing nations that go through a flag change in the latest beta. If there are more coming then I'll happily do them.
I've actually made the eagle smaller so it fits between the blue and red. I don't want them to look like colonies (my previous German set had a large eagle and people didn't like it).
The Duchy's and lands directly in control of the Tsar have large eagles covering the flag to represent their semi-autonomous status. The independent nations will have smaller eagles to represent allegiance to the Romanovs/The Empire.
Oh, I just meant general puppets. I'm unsure if Spain or Hungary can get puppet status by event, but it's a nice thought. Otherwise, I'd say your fine.
In that case, I can get why the eagle would be that small. I assume in-game it would look better, so meh.
That makes enough sense, so okay.
If Mongolia can get claims on all of Siberia on the basis that the Mongolian Empire owned it several centuries ago, the Greeks can gain cores on Istanbul on the basis of Byzantine ownership half a millennium ago and the Soviet Union can get claims on all of Eurasia, why not let the Ottomans rise claims on territories they owned just twenty-five years prior to the start of the scenario? Or at the very least, a stretch of land to Salonika?
I mean, if I was an Ottoman politician at the time, I'd still kind of be upset that the Empire gained diddly-squat territory at the end of the Weltkrieg. No reclamation of Egypt, no redemption of Rumelia, nothing except for little ol' Kars and a puppet Armenian state that's festering with anti-Ottoman nationalists.
When you put it like that, I see your point. Though it is fair to point out the Ottomans didn't do so well in the war, and the fact that they gained a lot of puppets like Albania, Oman, Tripolitania and so on makes up for it, it doesn't in-game terms So, in the scenario you're talking about, cores/claims on the Bulgarian coastline, and up to Kozani and maybe Macedonia? Beyond that, I don't see it working out well in terms of game balance and realism.
You do raise some good points on the other nations, but I have defenses for each of them.
It's just claims on Siberia for Mongolia, right? Because claims are just claims, not cores. I assume we're talking about cores or claims that turn into cores over time with the Ottomans. Besides, Siberia's a wasteland that in-game doesn't hold a particular loyalty to anyone except the strongest power in the area.
The Greeks is a tougher case, but I don't know if in the KR world the Greco-Turkish population exchange occurred. I assume not, but cores seems too far. I'd go for claims, then an integration even over a year or so, because those areas are still majority Turkish no matter what history happened in the game. Also because Paradox and Alt-History fans in general are big Grecophiles/Byzantophiles for some weird reason that still baffles me.
The Soviets can claim and integrate those areas on the same basis the Soviets did OTL; they had the strength and power to incorporate those areas into the state against their will on the locals. The Ottomans don't have that at the start of the game, and in the hands of the AI probably never will. But I do agree with you still that similar events should be there for the Ottomans.
Speaking of Armenia, maybe an event to incorporate it into the Ottoman state if you did everything you could to keep it under your puppet control? If not that, at least an event where you gain cores on all the starting lands you have claims on after winning the Arabian War, because as of now it's kind of pointless. From my own experiences and from reading Soulstrider's Ottoman AAR, playing as the Ottomans is a very tough game with very little reward in the end. Any of these ideas can help considerably spice up their fun value.
