I think a rework of Personal Unions is needed. Yes this is an airing of grievances. I was as mentioned in my other post playing as Muscovy, was the number 5 Great Power and had 60k troops. My Grand Duke died early, at 22, without an heir and this triggered a succession war between France and my new overlord 5 province Circassia. It seems to me that a non Great Power should not be allowed to PU a Great Power, let alone one they don't border and don't have near the forces required to secure their overlordship. In game I think you can't offer vassalization to a state with over 100 Development then a smaller state should not get to PU a larger just cause of a birth lottery. The nobility and tertiary royals would find or fabricate an heir or just adopt the sovereign as their own and claim the smaller country. A union would still be based out of the larger power not the smaller. Now the smaller power could get a Unification War of course and maybe there could be a faction in the larger nation that accepts that, maybe based on loyalty of various estates, stability, and economic power you could have a Condoterri type army roaming around allied with the claimant, but to just blanket give control of a nation to a distant and weaker power is in my opinion just janky. I see maluses all the time for vassalizing based on economic, military, and distance but it appears this doesn't apply on PU from smaller nations to larger nations. I don't imagine this will change in EU4 but thanks for reading anyway.
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