Inherited France

[Hatethese]

I'm playing as Spain and inherited France.All I got were provinces and forts.No units buildings,nothing.They had a good amount of colonies as well.Where the hell am I supposed to find the magistrates and cash to build this crap up lol.I figure poachers will show up before long.

 

[Hatethese]

Vassal

Seems I can release France as a vassal should I do this while I digest the colonies.

 

[chgrogers]

Well you just won the game. Problem with releasing France is when you want to reintergrate it. That is a quite a bit of Infamy in one hit. You might want to release the French minors instead and release France afterwards to make it easier when you want to diplo annex.

Or just keep it and focus on the big money provinces.

 

[Lord Curlyton]

Spain inherits France? Click "Game Over". No one can stop you. Revolts will probably be hellacious for a while, but once that calms down you'd have to try to lose. Personally, when something like that happens (especially if I wasn't planning on it), I like to release one big vassal and let them manage their now reduced provinces. A France or Spain that is intact and your vassal wins wars for you without you even trying. Will never forget the one time I inherited a Spain that had colonized a third of the world as the Netherlands...

 

[J.B.]

Pleasantly, this same thing happened to me during my Spain campaign recently. I started out as Castile, formed Spain, and inherited France through a personal union. Eventually, I integrated French lands into my empire. Now, I am effectively all-powerful; I never released any of the French minor kingdoms as vassals, either. I think it would be better to keep all of the land to yourself if you could manage it.

 

[Raeheart_]

I once inherited the extrablobby Habsblob as Brabant. It was a pleasing reversal of history.

 

[Hatethese]

The problem is my lack of troops to guard all the new land and the 50 or so more ships I need for my sea lanes.I have the cash to raise them maintenance may be a problem though.I also have the over extended debuff.

 

[Lord Curlyton]

Compromise and create one or two mid-size French vassals (I like Normandy or Champagne) and sell them enough provinces to remove the Overextension modifier. Land maintenance is easy enough to manage if you choose good NIs + use lots of infantry. How far into the game are you? If you have gotten to Naval 10 for Light Ships then just build 50 of them for cheap naval maintenance to get the full tariff.

 

[SerialCereal]

Reminds me http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?535676-*evil-smile*&highlight=

 

[Hatethese]

Yeah I've been cranking out the light ships and it seems some more cash is rolling in.I still want to break Burgundy but they're part of the HRE which I didn't notice till now lol.

 

[Hatethese]

Got core on some of my African conquests and over extension is gone yay.Guessing that gave me the income boost.

 

[Lord Curlyton]

Keeping enough ships to keep your tariffs at 100% makes a big difference if you have a lot of colonies (i.e. overseas provinces). If you break a colonial nation's navy (say, a Spain with 1/3 of the world) and strategically occupy any colonial CoTs their income plummets and they generally become unable to hold on to their vast holdings. Especially when a war drags on and their fleets stays small for several years or more. You'll be surprised just how much your own income changes via keeping tariffs up, too. And if you have enough overseas provinces to require 50 more ships it probably pays to shift your national focus and build a CoT of your own if you don't have an overseas one yet.

 

[Hatethese]

I have a COT in Mexico and just moved my NF to the NA colonies I got from France.

 

[Lord Curlyton]

Yeah make a coastal CoT in the colonies. You can dominate the trade from the Americas that way. And Africa if you're lucky.

 

[Hatethese]

I have coastal COT's in Bonny and Guatemala.Should I change these?Also OE is back might be a different reason I wish it told me why I have it .

 

[pontifex_medius]

You get overextension if the ratio of cored provinces is too low. You got it back from either annexing new provinces, or from getting a ruler with a lower administrative skill than his/her predecessor. All you can do is to ease up on the expansion until a wave of provinces core, or by getting a ruler with a higher adm skill. You can check the requirements in the "modifiers" panel to the bottom right of the interface.

 

[Hatethese]

Need cores on 43 I think which won't be for 40+ years .

 

[Lord Curlyton]

Then work on getting a high ADM ruler. Republics are the easiest way to get one, but obviously that is not what you are right now. If you have a crappy ADM ruler it might be best to get in a few wars and make your ruler a general. Send him (or her) into the thick of things and let nature run its course. Not a guaranteed method, but far faster than just waiting (worse rulers seem to love to live for dozens of years in peacetime).

 

[zedyue]

It's always vexed me that when you gain a province without a core you get no buildings that were on it. Even in wars they didn't burn entire cities to the ground ALL of the time. They wanted the resources. Especially with inheriting like in the OP, presumably the Ruler of France dying causes all the infrastructure in France to magically catch fire.

 

[Hatethese]

I think I may have a double whammy core ratio and slider/city # .