Coastal provinces can be reached by sea. A landlocked province can't, unless you have a vassal in between. What makes no sense is why it only works on same continent provinces, a overseas province landlocked by a vassal can't be cored.
Does the AI not adhere to coring rules?
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I wasn't trying to assert the coring rules in the game make sense, just that they're being evenly applied and that the Ottoman situation doesn't show anything off-kilter from a current rules perspective.
The fact that you can ship forces numbering 20000 on cogs into places that you can't core certainly allows one to question the sensibility of the overall framework of the rule.
Right, they can. But it's not very efficient to do so in a province that is already well established. You can core a colony because it's your people settling it. But coring an established province that far from your mainland?
Fair enough. That educates me. Although, does that mean they can also fabricate a claim there? From my understanding, if you cannot fabricate a claim on a province (unless a capital), then you cannot core it either. Correct me if I am wrong there. I know that if I control Orkney Islands, I cannot fabricate a claim on most British provinces nor any Irish provinces. I am not positive, but I don't believe I can core them either. I am fairly certain (but not positive) that I have taken provinces in Ireland that I could not immediately core when I controlled The Highlands.
Check the colonial range mapmode. If you have colonial range to a province, you can core it.
That's not how coring works, no. Claim rules and coring rules are distinct. Claims require adjacency. You must be directly adjacent to either the province itself or a sea zone that also touches that province. Coring range is colonial range. As josh127 says, if you can colonize it, you can core it. Means coastal provinces all over the world can be cored in the late game with only minimal ports along the way. There is the additional rule of being able to core on the same continent next to vassals.
And the suspiciously buglike feature of being able to core provinces through ones you've occupied.
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As part of the Burgundian inheritance Austria (more often than not it is Austria) Inherits the low countries and the eastern parts of southern Burgundy, the provinces in question. Sometime after that the Netherlands independence event has occurred leaving Austria with just those few disconnected provinces. When this event fires and provided you haven't changed your default pop up settings you get a message telling you this after which Burgundy is split between France and usually Austria.