Does Dutch Nationalism ever end?
Do they end if you let them revolt fully, then take over their country?
Do they end if you let them revolt fully, then take over their country?
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Originally posted by Carolus Rex
Let them form and then annex them asap.
It ends in about 1600 or so.
Does that work? I had read in previous posts that unless you allowed them to keep their capital, the annexed provinces would return to their enormous revolt risks.
And to elaborate:
The Netherlands can form at any time that the rebels control the three key provinces of Zeeland, Holland, and the Hague. Other provinces, like Friesen and Flanders may go along if they have also been captured.
The usual way I handle the revolts is to station big armies nearby but not in the revolting provinces. I let them take the three core provinces as quickly as possible while trying to deny (or recapture) the noncore provinces (especially Flanders). As soon as the Netherlands forms, they are at war with me, so I can take back everything but their capital. This does always cause an end to the revolts, and leaves a much weakened one-province Netherlands that I can beat on periodically to strip away colonies and TPs. (Until they get another full province, capturing their capital will give me 7 stars, allowing me to choose in peace talks any three of their colonies/TPs I may have captured...)
Supposedly if you manage to convert one of the revolting provinces to another religion, that province will stop revolting (but it takes a long period of bloody revolts to get to that point, so I've never tested it myself).
They also end (almost, only +3 revolt risk or something like that) if you turn protestant or reformed, which also gives more colonists. My Spain (once played) went reformed for this reason
IIRC the only do that in EU2. They xure as hell didn't defect in my French game(one of my last EU1 games).