Be able to make vassal change to any religion, regardless of the group

[dog player]

Since the only argument against it would be realism and we're not really going for that in games, I would really like to be able to tell my vassal to change to my religion, regardless of his religion group. Just let me do it. Get some penalties in there, huge revolt risk, don't care. Just let me do it. Why restrict it?

 

[Basileios Makedon]

Sunni Wallachia?

 

[Sarmatian]

Sunni Wallachia?

Why not? Who thought of Sunni Bosnia or Sunni Albania in 1444, yet it is perfectly normal now. Anyway, you can conquer Wallachia, convert it to Sunni and release as Sunni.

I wouldn't mind, although with some restrictions, like they have to be your vassal for 50 years or so at first, and some major liberty desire, like 75 or 100.

 

[Basileios Makedon]

Why not? Who thought of Sunni Bosnia or Sunni Albania in 1444, yet it is perfectly normal now. Anyway, you can conquer Wallachia, convert it to Sunni and release as Sunni.

I wouldn't mind, although with some restrictions, like they have to be your vassal for 50 years or so at first, and some major liberty desire, like 75 or 100.

But albania and bosnia were part of ottoman empire, Wallachia was just a vassal

 

[Sarmatian]

But albania and bosnia were part of ottoman empire, Wallachia was just a vassal

Intricacies of Ottoman (or any other) overlordship isn't well defined and game mechanics can't reflect that. Often Balkan countries are represented as being part of Ottoman empire when in practice the relationship was closer to vassalage for a long period of time.

I can definitely see it happening, like a zealous overlord forcing the rulers to convert.

I don't mind either way. but it would be an interesting option, with proper restrictions in place.

 

[tobias.mb]

While we are at it; please let me change the religion in my colonies. It's just annoying that I have to either wait ~50 years with colonization or accept a wrong religion vassal for the entire game.

 

[Promanco]

I think it should give a huge penalty to Liberty Desire like 100% for 12 months BEFORE they change their religion, a strong vassal will NOT take the change to religious group without a fight.
But yes I do agree that there should be a way to enforce this, also by god yes Overlords of Colonial Nations should have a way to change religion...

 

[TheMeInTeam]

While we're at it, there's no reason non-pagans can't go pagans via rebel in human hands. It's nonsense that Mongolia can't be Tengri lol.

 

[Metal_Izanagi]

Agreed. The current setup for this mechanic is too focused on "realism" and not enough on making it a fun game mechanic.

 

[Maq]

What about this: On overlord's demand, the vassal ruler and his/her family changes religion, but none of the provinces they own. After that, the vassal, and also indirectly the overlord, would face the situation that the state religion is alright, but the people stick to old confession. Unrest, rebellions, conversion attempts,... troubles.

 

[t6.28]

What about this: On overlord's demand, the vassal ruler and his/her family changes religion, but none of the provinces they own. After that, the vassal, and also indirectly the overlord, would face the situation that the state religion is alright, but the people stick to old confession. Unrest, rebellions, conversion attempts,... troubles.

Would be cool, if the same was allowed for normal nations (the King of Sweden suddenly decides to become Nahuatl for some reason). Of course it would have to be something the AI would never do, but would add some flavor for the player.