Do you plan on creating any special Client State ?

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You'll be able to choose whether your client states are monarchies or republics, and install your own dynasty in client monarchies if you yourself are a monarchy.

This is awesome. These are features I've been wanting for a long time.

Would be cool if primary culture is included too.

Can't create client states overseas.

Hope this is modable.
 

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I want to make an american flag out of russia with client states. do the client states have to be contiguous? it'll be difficult to do all the stars if I can't skip provinces.
 

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I want to make an american flag out of russia with client states. do the client states have to be contiguous? it'll be difficult to do all the stars if I can't skip provinces.

No, they can be given non-contigious provinces of the same culture.
 

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Is is the capital city you assign at start that defines the primary (and group) culture of the client state?

Yes.

So no client states in India or China If playing european/american/african nation and so on ?

Correct. Russia can make client states in Siberia though, if they have a land connection.
 

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And what about a Byzantine game? Can you make client states in Asia or only in the european side?

You can't make client states in territories that are considered 'distant overseas', so as long as you have a land connection from capital you can make them all you want.
 

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You can't make client states in territories that are considered 'distant overseas', so as long as you have a land connection from capital you can make them all you want.

Fantastic! I assume however that client states don't count as land connections, so if you want a chain of clients you'll have to keep a snake of your own provinces running through them?
 

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I guess I will play as France or Austria, annex Switzerland and build a client state out of their former provinces, which is called "Twitterland", since there will definitely be constantly annoying pop-ups with a tons of nasty "my overlord, we want this and that"-dicisions :D
 

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Yes.
Correct. Russia can make client states in Siberia though, if they have a land connection.
Oh, that sad... Bye bye my "Kawaiiland" in Japan ^ ^

About other troll-states I think of is Isengard, and renameing one of my armies to "hobbits" and I will send them to Isengard xD.

About serious states I`ll probably use them to dismantle blobs without existing cores, altough I must do sth weird or plain stupid so probably If I will fight ottomans, the names will be like "fried turkey, chicken, kfc" etc... ;]
 

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You can't make client states in territories that are considered 'distant overseas', so as long as you have a land connection from capital you can make them all you want.
Say I'm playing Poland. Can I make a client state in European Russian provinces, and give them adjacent provinces in Asia, even if it's considered distant overseas to me but not to the client state?
 

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Say I'm playing Poland. Can I make a client state in European Russian provinces, and give them adjacent provinces in Asia, even if it's considered distant overseas to me but not to the client state?

Yes.
 

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Will it be possible for vassal Marches to form some nations? Like having Novgorod March form Russia or Moldavia form Romania? Would they become client states or something like that?
The option for vassals forming nations is now limited only to Prussia but would it be possible to expand this idea? I also imagined England helping some HRE nation create Westphalia client state. It's like CK2 but instead of dynasty you develop little nations :)
 

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