So I discovered something new last time I played, apparently there is a hard cap on annexing a vassal. That cap being 50 base tax.
This is very much not good.
So my long term plans had involved several things that are derailed by this. First and foremost I had been planning Sultan of Rum, and have been in position to do so for a very long time. In fact for the last 100 years I’ve had Moscow under direct control, and my Urbino vassal had held Rome. I delayed annexing them for the sole reason that I was going to Unify Islam first, so I could possibly convert Rome.
But I fed the northern half of the peninsula to Urbino, so they sit at around 65 basetax. No annex.
Persia is huge, from Basra to Samarkand. Hahaha, nope. 150 basetax.
My newly vassalised Tunis (because the Tunisian idea makes coring very expensive), also too big.
Genoa and Ferarra are under the limit, but due to being electors they are unannexable for now, as I want to destroy the empire.
Crimea I had been using to feed Lithuanian and Golden Horde land. 51 basetax (oh FFS).
This sucks. It’s partly my own fault, but still I am less than thrilled. Unfortunately I can’t seem to find much information about how to deal with this, as the hard limit seems semi undocumented. Normal things like enacting the policy to reduce annexing cost 20%, increasing diplomatic rep, none of that makes a difference.
I get making it harder, I really do. That’s not the issue, it is that harder = impossible at the arbitrary limit, and trivial below it. Now I’m just grumpy because I’ll likely face a series of wars against my former vassals. Release Crimea, declare war, take 2-3 provinces, force vassalization again, annex in 10 years. Ditto Urbino (not Persia, at 150 basetax that’s not happening. I can live with them unannexable though.). It’s just kind of annoying that I’m going to be forced to do something like that.
So if anyone has any ideas, I’m all ears.
