Rival your own marches -- WAD?

[volseraph]

I'm playing Friesland, and I've made Munster a march. I can set Munster as my rival, and even directly DoW it (without first revoking march or vassal status). That... seems a little strange, no?

I did a little more experimentation —*rivaling your march does make relations terrible, but won't break the march relationship, and they'll still happily join in your wars. If you declare war on your march, this does (permanently) break the march relationship, but otherwise has no ill effect (no stability drop, e.g.).

 

[ranma100]

Why would you try to rival or DOW your own march in the first place?

 

[Panzerschiffe]

Why would you try to rival or DOW your own march in the first place?

Free humiliate peace treaties to increase power projection

 

[Brainblow]

still doesn't make sense.

 

[volseraph]

If you want to annex your march, I'm pretty sure DoW-ing and re-vassalizing it will give you a lower opinion malus than revoking the march (so, potentially, faster annexation). Also, if you've rivalled it, you've got -33% warscore costs for dismembering it...

 

[A Swell Guy]

They fixed that in the hotfix beta.