Sorry, don't have the patience to read through all the posts so this may have been answered a few dozen times already...
What are the red stars on provinces for?
What are the red stars on provinces for?
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If you control a country's capital and all of its red star provinces, you can annex it. Control 2/3 and much bigger military you can puppet it, etc. etc.
Basically it has to do with what types of peace you can impose on that country.
Basically it has to do with what types of peace you can impose on that country.
I haven't noticed this to be the case...I've controlled all of the key provinces of several countries, but have not been able to annex them...Control all provinces and I can...Anyone else experiencing this? Maybe I'm just misinterpreting something
The important thing is that provinces without red stars may still have keypoints (or VPs). Red stars only indicate those provinces that have a significant number of keypoints (5 I think). You can check in the ledger for a list of every province that has keypoints. In order to annex a country, you must control every province has has at least one keypoint, not just those provinces that have red stars.
Ahhh, ok, that would explain it. Well then I might as well just conquer everything, heh.