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Battlex

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What are peoples view on using League cities. They get an additional 2 import routes, and have - 4 slaves for surplus and limited exports. As you release them from your own provinces you could fill them up with slaves from elsewhere beforehand, as well as filling them with Mills. As city states they can build more buildings cheaply. Coloniae is only 4 inventions down its tech tree so could be done from game start. The province does need to be a city before it can be released but many places are overpopulated with cities E. G. Morea, so you'd need to do alot of food importing to the area.

So in the meta of where commerce earns you so much more than tax, and you'll always have more goods than import routes, is there any reason to be hoarding tribal tributaries/tribal vassals over hoarding league cities after early game?
 
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I tend to over-conquer a little and I like forming league cities to help compensate because they:

  • Can't declare independence (I think? I've never seen them try)
  • They provide additional income as stated
  • They provide another nation tag to buy/sell from
I like them over tributes because you can conquer an enemy province with 10 territories, keep 9 of them, release a very productive 1 territory league city.