Inherited territory in the middle of HRE

[Flaczyna]

Hello. I have encountered interesting situation. It's 1479, I am playing as Castle focused on colonization of America, i have PU over Aragon and a bit of religious roleplay with religious culture and expansionist zealotry priviliges. Normal situation, just starting colonization of caribbeans. Suddenly I inherited whole braunschweig state. It is in the middle of HRE, no access to land, wrong culture, however it's a piece od good european land. What would you do with it? I am not planing to fight the HRE in the nearest future. I can try to diplo-vassal Oldenburg, to connect to the sea, but I don't think it is so important I can just leave it as a territoryor make state, but it's quite far from me and not useful for trade. However I am colonizing Americas, that means I will have some spare governing capacity as colonial nations will form. I had clear plan on game, but this land came suddenly and I have no idea what can I do with it. Any interesting ideas welcome.

Edit: I just realized, that it is not scripted version of burgundian inheritance

 

[Guibou]

You could always release a vassal, march it up and give them the interraction for +moral and let them fight for you if you get in a war in the old world. Dev them up a bit on the military side and build the +1 army limit bulding so they can get more troops.

 

[Flaczyna]

Problem with making marches with Castile is that they have lots of PUs from mission tree and I also got PU on Navarra so not much slots. Also making vassal from full cores seems bad. I just read on Wiki that inheritance causes 0 autonomy in provinces, so when I will state them, will I get instant jump from 90 to 0 autonomy?

 

[Barron of Gondor]

Problem with making marches with Castile is that they have lots of PUs from mission tree and I also got PU on Navarra so not much slots. Also making vassal from full cores seems bad. I just read on Wiki that inheritance causes 0 autonomy in provinces, so when I will state them, will I get instant jump from 90 to 0 autonomy?

March or scutage is the best option. You're not going to be using that land any time soon, and having re annexing them in 200 years is not that bad. If you are worried about relation slots... Just wait till you form Spain to spit them out.

(PS. you should have diplo vassalized Navarra before Aragon got them in a PU at the start of the game tbh.)

 

[Lykus Cerebros]

Did you give out the strong duchies privilege for the nobility? That gives you two additional diplo slots and some liberty desire reduction.

 

[bokorthedust]

Did you give out the strong duchies privilege for the nobility? That gives you two additional diplo slots and some liberty desire reduction.

Strong duchies requires two vassals/marches, you can't give it out if you only have PUs. However, if he can make another vassal somewhere, and release the other in the HRE, the privilege will provide the two relation slots so he'll be even. That's one of the reasons I always aim to diplo vassalize Navarra before the PU fires, and then snipe Bordeaux from England to release Gascony as the second vassal, so I get the privilege and have an avenue early into crippling France.

 

[FocusedHope]

Problem with making marches with Castile is that they have lots of PUs from mission tree and I also got PU on Navarra so not much slots. Also making vassal from full cores seems bad. I just read on Wiki that inheritance causes 0 autonomy in provinces, so when I will state them, will I get instant jump from 90 to 0 autonomy?

That is how autonomy works; whatever it "really is" is stored as a hidden variable if lower than the minimum autonomy, and if the minimum autonomy gets lowered (for example, by going from territory to state), jumps to the "real value" (or new minimum if the new minimum is still higher). However, if the autonomy ever gets raised, "real value" is discarded (until autonomy gets back to the minimum), so make sure particularist rebels don't get onto it.

Given that it's free full cores, I tend to think it's more efficient to have as states than as a vassal. Military access is usually pretty easy to get if you need to, so I don't even see any reason not to keep it and state it.

 

[LukasYork]

March or vassal is a terrible idea, waste of diplo slot

just build a fort there if there is none, this land will be a perfect bait for enemy stacks to waste their time while you carpet siege them

 

[Flaczyna]

Thanks for advices. I decided to state this land. I am also friend with Burgundy. It will look funny if I will win the inheritance event.