How do i become independent as Iceland?

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Vapiritapiri

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I have tried like 10 times but it keeps failing over and over again. Either Denmark or Sweden sieges down my capital before any coalition war can happen or the coalition happens and i do not get released...
 
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I would imagine the easier way to become independent Iceland is to win your independence as Norway, then sell all of your provinces except your capital and those in Iceland to Denmark and Sweden and then take the decision to embrace Icelandic identity. It'll move your capital to Reykjavik for free and let you get Iceland's national ideas and even give you free dev in Iceland.

Getting independence as a vassal of someone under a PU (Iceland, Finland) is notoriously difficult and not at all recommended unless you're a masochist.
 
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I would imagine the easier way to become independent Iceland is to win your independence as Norway, then sell all of your provinces except your capital and those in Iceland to Denmark and Sweden and then take the decision to embrace Icelandic identity. It'll move your capital to Reykjavik for free and let you get Iceland's national ideas and even give you free dev in Iceland.

Getting independence as a vassal of someone under a PU (Iceland, Finland) is notoriously difficult and not at all recommended unless you're a masochist.
How do i win a independence war against Denmark? Never played Sweden or Norway before so i dunno if there are any events that increase Swedish liberty desire.
 

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How do i win a independence war against Denmark? Never played Sweden or Norway before so i dunno if there are any events that increase Swedish liberty desire.
I thought Sweden started at above 50% liberty desire so you can ally them at the start but I might be wrong. There is in fact an event that gives Sweden an insane liberty desire modifier but it's not until 1480 or something. Either way England (and Muscovy once it gets a land border from eating Novgorod) will almost always be happy to support your independence and can reach Denmark, so just wait a few years for the Hundred Years War to end and Muscovy to border Sweden or Denmark in the Baltics and you should be good to go.
 
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You don't need to start as Norway and go through independence, you could just start as Denmark and integrate Norway.

The way to form Iceland is via a decision called "Embrace Icelandic Identity" which requires you to own and have cores on the two provinces in Iceland (but not necessarily the Faroe and Shetland island provinces).

You could start as anyone and conquer the two provinces in Iceland, core them and take the decision to become Iceland.
 

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You don't need to start as Norway and go through independence, you could just start as Denmark and integrate Norway.

The way to form Iceland is via a decision called "Embrace Icelandic Identity" which requires you to own and have cores on the two provinces in Iceland (but not necessarily the Faroe and Shetland island provinces).

You could start as anyone and conquer the two provinces in Iceland, core them and take the decision to become Iceland.
Don't you need to own only like 4 cities for it?