Now If I am to expand further into India, I'm in need of some good vassal there. I've already been improvin relations with Sind for some time to diplo vassalise, and I will be able to do it soon. But there is another opportunity that I should use. Who is a better vassal than someone who is small enough to vassalise but has lots of cores to be reclaimed? As you saw my Persia, I guess you know the value of a vassal who has cores outside of their borders... You might ask, "How are going to vassalise Gujarat?" Well, I can't diplo vassalise due to distance. But I can still force vassalise. Though I have no CB on him, and I don't want to pay -2 stability for that. So what should we do? Oh well, see the next image!
Supporting rebels is one great way to get a CB against someone to whom otherwise you would get no CB(the other way would be loan offer but its unreliable). Though you must be wary with using this method. Because the rebels must be able to revolt, which means some high unrest. The reason for that is, you get the "Support Rebel" CB only when the rebels have revolted. In my case, I'm a bit lucky with that because they have already revolted, so I don't even need to give them much money, so I set it to minimum and get the CB after that.
You might think that I was just too lucky with this movement, but if you actually don't check such stuff regularly, you might have missed even luckier oppurtunities than mine
Don't forget! You only get the CB if the rebels spawn!
I must make sure to end the war before those rebels take those provinces. Then I'll be feeding Gujarat with lots of cores.
When I discovered the opportunity, my army was already marching towards QQ. So it will take a bit of time to get them back. Anyways, the war is declared.
I don't normally assault forts unless I have a lot of(very much) troops in sieging in late game. But in this case the morale is just so low that I was able to successfully assault without walls breached, with very little loss of man. Though assaulting is pretty risky otherwise.
Meanwhile the war with Naxos is over and the islands finally belongs to us. Too cheap to core:blush:
I'm able to vassalise Gujarat once the rebels are done with sieging. That's because they started sieging first. Gujarat is also Sunni now because all provinces around are Hindu anyway, so turning them to Sunni wouldn't hurt at all. Their +3 tolerance will help when giving them Hindu provinces.
Also another thing to note about this method is to make sure to cancel rebel support once the war is over. If I hadn't cancelled the support, I wouldn't be able to fight the rebel armies. Now that the support is cancelled, I'm able to get them out of my beloved loyal vassal's lands!
Also since Mewari nationalists have just risen up, there is less chance for him to have a revolt.
Rebels armies are a joke, since Gujarat is so much backwards compared to me. Both technology-wise and due to idea/event modifiers.
What is the benefit of having a vassal with trash armies then ? Well, their rebels are trash too as I stated 2 sententes ago
But what makes "trash rebels" pretty great is the fact that you can feed your backwards vassals pretty much easily +100 Overextension, since you'll be able to stomp their rebels anyway. You should just make sure to check if their rebels have spawned time to time, otherwise they may get broken by rebels while you were dealing with other stuff and you wouldn't want the hardly-taken provinces of your vassals to go back to their old owners I guess.
Even if you are late, don't worry, you still have 5 years after the rebels have completed sieging.
Geez, I guess people hate me
Btw, do you see the flaws of the "Rival" mechanic? I was at +50 PP(Power Projection) for most of the game after my conquest spree started, but right now I'm at 49... The flaw is that, I can't rival a 3rd nation because they don't match my strength... Oh come on, even that France? Its strange that I can't rival even that France. For that reason I'm losing lots of PP.
Anyway, I'm now waiting for my last war to end so that I can have peace for time and live a peaceful life untill the end of my days... Heh, what am I saying? We have lots of wars to get going... Mainly against Malwa and QQ. But I need peace to be able to start diplo -annexing some vassals.
Ah, also I'll be diplo-vassalising Sind because I need to do it before I get more AE in India. I'll be over relation slot for some time, but who cares? Diplomatic power isn't as useful Military or Administrative unless you're a coloniser or have an unfinished diplomatic idea group.
Please mate, just do that colony! If you're wondering, no, this isn't the second time me giving gift to Muscovy. I've tried a few more times. But even though Muscovy has the 20th highest income(which is good for a vassal) , his treasury always seem to be empty. Which I guess is because of his loans still being payed, also his army is getting larger.
Tip of the day folks : Check the ledger. It makes wonders and lets you predict so much stuff.
Well I'm not sure what the follow up events(if there is any) would be but this option seems to be the reasonable one. If you wonder, the other option was -1 Stability , +%5 tech cost(aka more cost) and %2.5 discipline for 10 years. I'm not really sure why founding the Enderun, which was kind of a school with really good education for its time when it was founded, would increase the tech cost instead of decrease it. Anyway. There are lots of weird things in Ottoman events anyway.
So peace it is.
Wow, how dare you call me into a war? You aren't even useful due to that "Threatened" attitude anyway...
The sole reason to keep Poland an ally was to keep it from joining in any coalition against us, as allies get pretty reduced AE from you.
And I could use him against our common rivals(mainly Austria) when he was "Defensive" instead of Threatened. And even at Threatened attitude, he would have joined my defensive wars due to high Trust. And when I declares war, it counts enemies' allies as well. This made me kinda immune against coalition wars because they would never have the courage to face our combined strength. Besides, if they decided to attack me, it could only be my gain with Poland-Lithuania on my side...
I could actually attack Hungary before accepting the war call, and it would make a separate war where I was the leader and the alliance wouldn't be broken, but Hungary is in a coalition and I have more important stuff to do right now than to deal with Austria and a bunch of other guys.
I declined the call. At least it frees a relation slot... Poland will never trust me again, but the prestige isn't a great problem since I'll be getting tons of it when I'm at war again.
Actually there is a cheesy way... Call that nation into arms in a war that he won't join.
That's a crazy good way to get rid of an alliance! They get no trust or relation malus against you, though you get against them. If you want to ally them again, you may have a bit of problem with your country having too low relations(both nations must have positive relation), but most of the time that nation improves relations with you anyway.
Actually, If I was at war, I'd do this right away. But I don't want to get into a war just for this, because the easiest war I can declare atm is against QQ. Actually this could prove to be a very great thing if I did. Because Poland would get - prestige, and guess what, the Polish king would be negative prestige and he is 61 years old already ! Top off that, he's losing the war. It's like almost a guranteed way to break the PU over Lithuania with such an old ruler. It would also be pretty satisfying I'm sure. Well, but I'm not doing that this time. I know Commonwealth is gonna be too strong, but otherwise having Lithuania free would mean him joining every coalition formed against me... And Lithuania would be guaranteed to ally Poland due to very high trust and historical friend modifier. So it's ok that I'm not doing this right now.
I just want to integrate some vassals:glare:
Hello there, Sind.
I made the maths and am using the policy because its worth right now. A policy you take can't be removed for 10 years. So it costs at least 120 administrative power.
The tooltip states %20 reduced cost, but in fact it's %25 reduced and combined with the other %25 cost reduction in Influence group, it makes annexing vassals pretty cheap. So that policy is best used when integrating more than one big vassals.
Even though I'm in need of administrative power(because I'll be taking an idea set in that group) I used the policy anyways... Because I was bleeding relation slot penalty every month, increasing the power I lose for nothing. I'll have to save a bit of administrative power afterwards.
I can also possibly use this policy to integrate another vassal as well, 10 years later... Possibly Sind.
I'm not integrating Crimea. Because I guess I'll use it against the other hordes .
Meanwhile let's have a look at my vassals. They don't give much money but I don't need money anyway. The Persian and Muscovite armies seem pretty scary. I like it. Muscovy will surely be able to take care of the hordes on its own in the future, while I'm dealing with the Indians.
I'm not sure what happened there... I pretty much won the sieges. For some reason Gujarat seems to have accepted demands... Anyway, let's take it back before he's allied to someone.
Timur won't accept call to war from Nogai? All right, let's attack Nogai then and feed it to Crimea.
I can't even imagine 2 blobs over North, Muscovy on top and Crimea under that with all hordes under control heheh
But it's good neverthless.
I'll be declaring few more wars, and another surprise just as always, in the next chapter! This is the end, hope you enjoyed
