Can you vassalize another nation's colonial power?

[Vampiresbane]

Or is that even a thing?
Or could you help a colonial power gain independence from its overlord and then force it into being a vassal afterwards? (Two separate wars)

Just trying to figure out how to best take over/colonize the eastern seaboard of North America as Japan.

 

[AnssiA]

Or is that even a thing?
Or could you help a colonial power gain independence from its overlord and then force it into being a vassal afterwards? (Two separate wars)

Just trying to figure out how to best take over/colonize the eastern seaboard of North America as Japan.

If you annex the overlord completely, you get all her colonial nations. ie. if you annex every province owned by "Portugal", you'll get all Portuguese colonial nations. (This might require you to annex some provinces in new world too if they haven't become colonial nation yet.)

 

[Vampiresbane]

If you annex the overlord completely, you get all her colonial nations. ie. if you annex every province owned by "Portugal", you'll get all Portuguese colonial nations. (This might require you to annex some provinces in new world too if they haven't become colonial nation yet.)

That's good to remember. As Japan, I'm not sure I want to try to fight all the way into Europe just to control colonial nations. Plus I don't really want them AS colonial nations since their trade goes elsewhere. If I can somehow manage it, I'd rather they be regular nations so I can extract more money from them as vassals (Vassal Income > Tarrifs in a lot of ways).

 

[deathbypie]

You can just take enemy provinces from the new world, core 5, and it will make your own colonial nation. After that, you'll have an option of "concede x" in a peace deal, where x is something like "colonial brazil", to take all the provinces there. Or you can just take provinces normally for the same war score cost, adding them to your colonial nation.