Reduce the warscore cost?

[Skooming Johnners]

It costs 118% warscore to vassalise Scotland and I was wondering if there's any way at all I can make it less than 100%. Sweden is also in the war so would just making Sweden peace out reduce it?

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

There probably isn't anything you can do to vasalize them in your current war sadly, I have been wanting to vasalize TO for ages too, but same problem. You're just gonna have to take enough provences or force them to release enough provences in this war so their development is low enough to vasalize them in a future war.

[c00lizz]

Not without upping admin eff, getting diplomatic ideas, having them rivaled. A conquest war will reduce the cost of the target province slightly but I don't think it will drop it 18% under even the best circumstances.

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

Force vasalization seems largely based on development and that's what I got told by others too,
for me, the game said I'd be able to vasal TO in the next war after my last conquest war.

[Mikey]

To vassalize Scotland in a single was as England you will first need to mission to vassalize Scotland.

Using the CB that follows with that mission reduces the cost of forcing vassalage to 75% making it possible to vassalise them in a single war.

Same goes for TO as Poland. You will get a mission usually quite early to "force the knights into submission" or something similar.

[IndirectHero]

Originally posted by Comrade Johnners:

It costs 118% warscore to vassalise Scotland and I was wondering if there's any way at all I can make it less than 100%. Sweden is also in the war so would just making Sweden peace out reduce it?

Province claims have a -10% Province warscore cost and unlocking Flexible Negotiations in Diplomatic idea grants a -20% Province warscore cost.

Another thing, the higher the autonomy that province have the lower the warscore cost. So lets say the province has a 100% autonomy, that would reduce it by -33% Province warscore cost.

Other then that, trying to get autonomy higher by having rebels spawn might be too much of a hassle and usually rebels only give about 10 - 33 autonomy when they take over a province.

As the other people say, admin eff or the subjugation mission is the best way to get nations within vasslized range.

If you can't get any of the options I have listed above in time, best way is to release the nations or take over them and wait for the next war. Usually two wars would be enough to fully vasslized Scotland. But since Sweden is in a war, I would let them take a couple of provinces to reduce the warscore below 100% then you can vasslized Scotland within that war. Only problem is that you have to fight Sweden for those land later. Unless you get lucky and Scotland nationalist rebels pop up and retake the land back :)

[tonypa]

I get the feeling OP is in the war against Sweden who is allied to Scotland.

[Skooming Johnners]

Originally posted by tonypa:

I get the feeling OP is in the war against Sweden who is allied to Scotland.

Nope it was against Scotland who was allied with Sweden

[tonypa]

eh, I meant that, just got confused while reading through replies :)