Fastest way to annex?

[Lord Stig]

Hello mates! Im playing Romania and are gooing good so far. Tho sadly instead of talking all of balkan I just got some of the contries while others became my puppets. Now I wonder what I can do to annex them as fast as possible?

Been bulding a lot in Bulgaria but tkase forever if im to get the potion to annex him, and as im at war with soviet I cant really leas to much to him :/

Any tips at the subject would be much welcome :D

[ankara_republic]

paratrooper attacks to cities are the fastest i think

[Ëvïlnïck8 ゴゴゴ]

On the focus tree somewere should be an ''reduce autonomy on subjects'' focus you can pick, all nations have these. This might help.

Also, it might actuely be better to just keep Bulgaria as an puppet. They dont have to much industry and if you annex them you cant use their manpower.

[Evilous]

Bulgaria should always be a puppet since they have no industry or resources. Annexing them just makes you lose the free divisions they make.

[Lord Stig]

Originally posted by Ëvïlnïck8:

On the focus tree somewere should be an ''reduce autonomy on subjects'' focus you can pick, all nations have these. This might help.

Also, it might actuely be better to just keep Bulgaria as an puppet. They dont have to much industry and if you annex them you cant use their manpower.

Originally posted by Evilous:

Bulgaria should always be a puppet since they have no industry or resources. Annexing them just makes you lose the free divisions they make.

Ty for the help! But okay, no annexing bulgaria, but what about the likes of Serbia and croatia? :)

[Ëvïlnïck8 ゴゴゴ]

Originally posted by Round_Lake:

Originally posted by Ëvïlnïck8:

On the focus tree somewere should be an ''reduce autonomy on subjects'' focus you can pick, all nations have these. This might help.

Also, it might actuely be better to just keep Bulgaria as an puppet. They dont have to much industry and if you annex them you cant use their manpower.

Originally posted by Evilous:

Bulgaria should always be a puppet since they have no industry or resources. Annexing them just makes you lose the free divisions they make.

Ty for the help! But okay, no annexing bulgaria, but what about the likes of Serbia and croatia? :)

Same with Croatia and Serbia. Little industry and not to many resources. I would say just keep em as puppets so that they atleast provide some divisions.
Also, depending on their autonomy status they already give you recourses and industry. So an intergrated puppet will give X% resources and X% factories. The lower their autonomy level the more industry and resources you get.

[Lord Stig]

Originally posted by Ëvïlnïck8:

Originally posted by Round_Lake:

Ty for the help! But okay, no annexing bulgaria, but what about the likes of Serbia and croatia? :)

Same with Croatia and Serbia. Little industry and not to many resources. I would say just keep em as puppets so that they atleast provide some divisions.
Also, depending on their autonomy status they already give you recourses and industry. So an intergrated puppet will give X% resources and X% factories. The lower their autonomy level the more industry and resources you get.

Ty a lot for the help! thought it was really bad that I got them as pupeys, but guess I will just lower thire atonomy and then keep up the fight against soviet :P

[Mikey]

in case you didn't know you can produce troops that take their manpower from your vassals instead of your own

An integrated puppet will occationally hand you some of their divisions but the AI is really bad at composing division templates.
Instead you go to your "Recruit & Deploy" tab and in the top right corner of it right next to the "Division Designer" button is a small crown with an arrow. Click it then select the vassal you want to look at and it will open that vassals available templates.
Find one thats close to what you yourself are using and click it.
Inside the template screen that should now be open there is a button labeled "copy". If you click that the template you selected will dump to YOUR templates but with a small flag indicating where the template comes from and any divisions made with that template will take a portion of its manpower from the origin country (depending on the autonomy of said nation: integrated puppets = 90%, puppets = 70%).
On top of that you can change that template any way you want just like you would any of your other templates and any war material it needs comes from your country.

[Lord Stig]

Originally posted by Mikey:

Ty a lot for that info, had no ide that one could do that. As you say the AI have really bad templates so never wanted to use theire troops other then taking down rebels :P

But so thanks a lot, now every thing is gona be a lot easier with all the fresh troops :D

[Mikey]

Yw

It isn't something that is explicitly explained anyway which is why most people don't realise it at first. I didn't find out about it until a year ago either and I have had the game since release...

I did a Czech run yesterday taking over Europe with 1.5m russian slave-troopers. Fun times ^^