Shield Icons In Political Map Mode

[Headhunter]

Okay, I'm very new at this but I saw it and I was curious. I was playing as Venice and had fought a rather large war against Turkey with my alliance. I got Bosnia and Austria got Serbia I think. But my army managed to lay seige to a large portion of Turkish Europe thanks to the fact that the Turkish army had been massacered fighting the Mameluks. Now that the war is over (and has been for a while) I look at the Political map and see my shield in Greece, which is still in Turkish control. Any idea what that means?

 

[Griffon]

yup, it's a CB (Casus Belli -> reason for war) shield. Basically it means that whomever controls the province that has your shield on it, you have a CB against them. However, as soon as you conquer those provinces the CB is no more.

For example, France has a CB shield against England becasue England owns Calais. Well if France DOW England and takes Calais, then France has no more CB against England.

 

[BiB]

If ur looking on the political map, that indicates a core province of urs. If another country occupies such a province, u have a permanent CB against it untill u get it under control. They also won't have nationalist revolts when it comes under ur control as they're a home provicne of u.

 

[BiB]

Damn

 

[Griffon]

heehee

 

[Headhunter]

Thanks very much. I've still been experimenting around (read: got my butt kicked in Venice) and played another game as Austria. When I saw that Bohemia had all those shields, I put two and two together. Especially when my Alliance carved up Bohemia and I suddenly had a CB against my two allies

 

[BiB]

Though hang in there for Venice. Annexing it is quite a big badboy hit but u can start colonisation in earnest then.

Well, first get Bohemia/Hungary at least.