Should I make a "Grand City" in every set of new Duchies?

[jpinard]

I am Emperor of Burgundy and just won a Holy War for Spain (Kingdom of Andulusia which is most of Spain right now), and this has suddenly netted me a ton of everything to play with (I'm 100 over my Desmeme limit - lol) . I'll be handing it off to a Vice-Royalty after I'm done creating vassals and handing out titles and was trying to think of ways to maximize my own income. Each Duchy contains 3-4 Counties. I already have a good number of troops I can call up (30,000-40,000). Can you think of a reason I'd not want to make one County in each new Duchy a Grand City?

Thanks!

 

[Dragatus]

You can have no more than 10% of your realm as republics. Any higher than that and the game won't allow you to make new ones. The same applies to theocracies.

 

[jpinard]

You can have no more than 10% of your realm as republics. Any higher than that and the game won't allow you to make new ones. The same applies to theocracies.

Oh OK. So would you suggest I go right up to that 10%?

 

[Dragatus]

Sure, go for it. Cities are wonderfully stable and generally less rebellious than feudal vassals. They also don't mess up the pretty borders you set up. Which is exactly why Paradox coded a limit of how many you can have.

BTW, any vassals of republics and theocracies also count against that limit. For example if you create a duchy tier bishop who has 1 county and 3 feudal single county counts as vassals, that will count as theocratic provinces for the purposes of the limit.

A trick to get past the limitation is to create all the city/temple vassals you want, give them duchies and then transfer vassalage of feudal counts to them. Note that any duchy+ level republic with a coastal capital will become merchant republic, but if they don't have a capital on the coast they should turn into regular republics.