You can diploannex nations outside your culture group just fine, just not your religious group, hence why the poster suggestions letting japan break and convert to animist.
You can diploannex nations outside your culture group just fine, just not your religious group, hence why the poster suggestions letting japan break and convert to animist.
Alternate solution: get rebels to cause Kyoto to defect to one of the daimyos, which will make all the daimyos become ordinary feudal monarchies. I've seen this happen plenty of times even without player interference.
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You can definitely diplovassalize outside of your culture group.
I deleted the post since you said to drop it and I decided to, but since it seems to have continued anyways: I never said anything about making them change religion. I was talking about making them defect to one of the daimyos, which causes the whole system to dissolve. As I said, it's happened plenty in my games *without any player interference*.
Bit of a bump, but if you still want to get the achievement I figured out how to do it:Well, I waited until 1820 multiple times (I literally tried everything) to see if that would happen, or if one of the Daiymos would unify Japan, and it never occurred.
If it was to be a user-created defect, in that case the rebels would also have to be of Japanese culture... :/
But yeah, let's drop this, it makes me cry, ha.
Bit of a bump, but if you still want to get the achievement I figured out how to do it:
Wait until Japan is at peace and then drop Peasants on them (Support Revolt). When their capital is occupied, wait until the last day of the month and create patriots. They'll defect to one of the daimyos, the system will break, and you'll be able to annex them.
Hope it's still possible for you to get the achievement since you said you played on 5.0.
You can get achievements currently on 5.0 and 5.1, thankfully.
I will try this soon, thanks (sorry if this is slightly off-topic, let the "RAAGING" continue).
EDIT: Doesn't work, the Patriots fight the Peasants, than one day later Kyoto is back to normal with the Patriots now as troops for Kyoto. Will try in 5.1...