Help needed with annexing a colonizer

[JohnyCage]

Hey guys,
I am trying to fully annex a colonizer and have hard time finding the missing provinces(I see the entire world). Portugal having a bunch of CNs does not help the process.

So my question is do you know a way to find all Portugal provinces?
It is really tedious to go and click every single province and see if it belongs to Portugal or not.

The game is ironman so checking the save file is not an option. Unless you know a way to make the save human-readable.

#bringbackfullannexbutton

 

[cuendillar]

I'd consider using the diplomatic mapmode and clicking on Portugal in it. It should display their provinces in a different shade of green from those of their subjects. Then pick provinces by clicking on the on the map rather than in the peace menu. Just remember that they can have unfinished colonies in the middle on one of their colonial subjects which may be hard or impossible for you to demand.

 

[hermithill]

This. Don't forget to have a look at islands of the Pacific - they are sometimes hard to spot!
For the unfinished colonies, best thing to do is to seize them or burn them.

 

[BladvakRO]

If you cannot find the province, or if you cannot take the province because it is beyond your coring range, you can always vassalize them and then diplo-annex them later.
Not great, but at least a workaround.

 

[Flaczyna]

I don't understand the problem. Can't you just pick all their provinces from peace deal window?

 

[Vulkandrache]

Yes, he can.
Just like the maybe 200 provinces from their CNs.
QoL nowhere to be seen.

 

[BarbarianHunter]

The same thing happened to me. I thought I'd gotten them all but a few of those tiny islands survived. There should be a designation on the peace menu (colony, ally, vassal, etc...) or better yet a sort with those parameters.

 

[bokorthedust]

Or just introduce the little flag column just like in the return core tab, to see who's land you are selecting.

 

[BarbarianHunter]

Well, something should be done. The culmination of an already micro-intensive war vs. a wide and disparate multi-island/continent colonizer should not be more micro to figure out what you need to annex.

 

[JohnyCage]

Yeah, this is why I usually go for vassalizing the colonizers. This time I went with selecting each province from the menu and checked to whom it belongs... I was lucky and the missing province was Palau. I had to check just the first half of the alphabet... Just 5minutes of tedious clicking

 

[Iwanow]

You can use map mode "opinion" and select the country - nice blue colour for all provinces. Hopefully you have discovered all provinces of your enemy before.

 

[jonjowett]

OP already found the province, but a few ideas anyway:

• I usually use the sorting column to differentiate provinces with >0% overextension (non-colonies) from provinces with 0% OE (colonies).
  • Manually going through the list of non-colonies shouldn't be too bad, because there probably aren't too many of them.
• Then, maybe, you can use "concede colonial region" to grey-out those provinces in the long list.
  • But I'm not certain if they do in fact get greyed-out...
  • And I think this peace term requires you to already have cores or CNs in the region.
• Then, there shouldn't be many remaining provinces, so again you can go through them one-by-one until you get "full annexation".
• Finally, unselect all the "concede" peace terms

It's still painful, but maybe a bit less painful.

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Alternatively, you can use it as a learning opportunity - motivation to memorise the names of all those annoying islands, in every language. ;-p