Vassalising Hungary

[Agelastus]

Judging by posts in other forums, players of Austria in the Grand Campaign seem to be able to do this. Counting restarts from saves I have attempted this at least one hundred times! From one save-game point I ran an experiment vassalizing Baden and Hungary. Baden vassalized 5 times out of ten, Hungary zero. I don't know if this is a bug or not, but if its not the result of some strange odds calculation, how do I fix this annoying, and potentially VP damaging, flaw. I did try reinstalling; this fixed an annoying error message that kept cropping up when selecting the Netherlands shield, but not this.

 

[unmerged(1776)]

It's been my experience you need to be much larger province wise and much larger army wise to vassalize a country. Also a country with high stability is much harder to vassalize. When I play Austria I don't even bother with the vassalization part because most of the time I get the 'Hungary's king has died without an heir and you inherit the kingdom!' event then I get rebellions out the wazoo for 30 years.