Does the feed free city to make them lose emperor protection technique expire? I use promise land to coax hamburg into attacking luneburg they occupied province luneburg and in the peace deal they didnt want it, same thing happened with bremen, when I tried to feed hamburg to verden, they dont want it either, are free cities just hot potatoes right now or are there factors pertaining whether ai take land?
Hamburg does not want anything
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Do they have any interest in the land you want to give them?
No idea how it used to be just assume it should be at least vital interest to them.
No idea how it used to be just assume it should be at least vital interest to them.
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I believe Free Cities will only expand if they have a militaristic ruler.
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But normal hre prince have no problem with it when I feed them yellow land in their diplo map, they just somehow have problem with free city
Well its a free city and not a normal HRE member.
They should have conditions attached to taking more territory as it takes them out of their special status.
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then why normal member wont take free city in peace deal? I see them DO it on their own
You get a special opinion malus for annexing a Free City IIRC, in addition to the normal malus for Unlawful Territory.
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Because of the ae cost? You didn't co belig the free city im guessing and the ai hasnt started improving relations, like they would if they started the war with the goal of conquering the free city
Is there a surefire way to feed free city and cause them to lose special status? Or just simply how to attack free city without too much ae penalty, every time I try to co-be free city the emperor got dragged in
If they border you or one of your allies, you could get 100% war score against them and force them to take a province. Then, they lose their Free City status and you can annex them later for less AE. Of course, you do need to fight them first to do that, so it may not be worth it.
Co belig will always bring in emperor, and when emperor you lose stab if you declare on free cities. You could become emperor and use 5 IA to remove their free city status
They're high dev and opms, gotta make them hard to get somehow
I recall it giving a CTA, but not necessarily one the emperor would accept if the emperor were in bad enough shape. Am I misremembering that?
Technically yeah it is a cta, but ai needs 1.30 levels of debt to refuse the cta no matter how easily the player will roll over the free city and the emperor
If the Emperor is Rivalled to the war target, I find that they almost never accept that CtA.
But its a free city, which gives an additional buff to the CTA acceptance, not a tag on the imperial border.
Yeah, that or brief "occupied and besieged provinces" windows. Sometimes it's in war with Ottomans and they're pitching a tent on Vienna/other emperor's cap.
Free cities give huge AE regardless, I usually just ignore them until dismantling, or if you're doing emperor plays there's no point getting rid of them.