I did the required reformations and now I have a Suomenusko Merchant Republic.
Before I reformed, I gave to Suomenusko Church the Kingdom of Rus and made them independent. I also gave Kingdom of Lithuania to one of my brothers and made them independent too. I tried to make the dudes in Finland independent too, but I couldn't. My heartlands are in Estonia and I wanted to remove as much tribals from my realm as I could. That's why I gave independece to so many dudes.
But what should I do with the Finnish lads. They are still tribal. Can I somehow convert them to republics and feudals somehow?
Also, in my heartland Estonia, there was one county which stayed tribal after reformation. I built its Market City to max, but it didn't transform to grand city province. So I build a new city holding in there, which turned that province into a grand city province, but the tribal holding still remained there. How do I get rid of it?
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And now to the other part. What kind of strategies should I employ with my pagan republic? I quess the regular build trade post and then seize city strategy is not gonna work since those Norse tribals don't have any cities to speak of. I can seize some cities from the southern coast of Baltic Sea but, that's only a few cities.
I can still raid. But raiding is getting harder and harder with each year because fort levels are rising in western worlds.
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