If vassals get past a certain point (3 provinces, I think) they'll never accept diplo-annexation unless you have an extremely high diplomatic skill.
What is your ruler's diplomatic rating, their ruler's diplo rating, and how many countries do you have in your sphere of influence? Also do you have an ambassador advisor?They only have 2 provinces, their starting 1s from the game start (Grand campaign)
Sounds like they're changing their vote and you aren't noticing. If it says they're voting for you, they're voting for you.Another question I have, is how do I get elected as the Emperor of the HRE? I have maximum relations with all the electors, and it says they will all vote for me (except Bohemia as the current ruler of course) but when ever the Emperor dies and a new vote is made, it always goes back to Bohemia. This is playing as Hungary still with all my provinces as part of the HRE.
All of the ineligibilities (republic, female ruler etc) show -1000 in the voting screen just fine in my experience. The electors are probably just changing their votes some time between King5000 checking and the election happening.Is your ruler female? A female ruler can't be Emperor and I'm not sure if that gets reflected in the voting screen.
Don't ever trust democracy! Just vassalize every elector, and just to be safe, beat up Bohemia too. Then bribe your vassal-electors to like you again, and not just by 5 points, be 100 points ahead. I have never lost a vote that way.
Vassalizing should give you:AFAIK vassallizing instantly give +200 relation to you and huge other bonuses on election, so you have to be at _very_ low relation to your vassal if they do not vote for you
Not unless they start with their markets open. Don't worry, you're not missing out; those CoTs are crap.Alright, I've got a few questions dealing with centers of trade.
First, there's three CoT's owned by the Timurids, and I was wondering if it's possible to send merchants to them? I'm guessing it's not possible, since even if I had good relations I couldn't ask them to open their markets, since they're nomadic (which, in my opinion, is pretty stupid).
If you can't open the CoT page at all then you're out of luck (since you'd need to ask them to open their markets). If you can then it's some other issue.My main question is about a CoT in Settsu. I've got merchants in the CoT in Kyoto, but I can't get any in Settsu. It took me awhile to figure out that I couldn't actually do anything with the individual Daimyos (which, again, I don't like), so I can't figure out what to do. Is it the same situation with the Timurids (in other words, not possible)?
Use Holy War, take the provinces yourself, then sell them to Byzantium for 0.One last question (nothing to do with CoTs): I'm allied with Byzantium, and want to help them get some land from the Ottoman Empire. However, I'm not sure how to do this. I could declare war myself, but there's no CB with what I need (liberation doesn't count, I think, because Byzantium is still there). Plus, I'd have to make sure the Byzantine troops were always leading a siege (so they would control the province). However, that doesn't change my warscore, so I couldn't demand them to give all the land to Byzantium.
Basically, is there anyway for me to aid Byzantium with regaining their land?
Will the lesser partner in a PU ever make a separate peace?
Use Holy War, take the provinces yourself, then sell them to Byzantium for 0.