Why can't I annex Protectorates?

[Matty1Monopoly]

How do I lower their liberty desire? I don't have the new DLC so I don't know if they hid the ability to annex subjects behind the paywall

Can I just give them independence then conquer them? I don't want to have to wait 5 years.

Also I'm the most powerful country in the world. Why can't I just lower autonomy and incite revolt to purposefully give myself casus belli to invade & conquer?
This game is so stupid most of the time with its logic.

[EduardGames]

lets go to ask a mod that does this, that create a diplomatic action for forced annexation

[Airbass]

you have to wait 5 years for each steap protectorate > dominion > fantoche > annexion

[EduardGames]

the mod can reduce the time too to 1 year per each step until final annexation, the mode can reduce the desire for liberty for countries on sphere if leader of sphere has the army power much higher, actually, now only impacts tha prestige

[Razorblade]

Subject Interactions and investing in subjects are both part of the free patch, so nothing has been paywalled. There are a few subject interactions that can lower Liberty Desire, but your bread and butter is Economic Entanglement. That is how dependent on your Market that your subject is for their economic survival.

If you, for example, make your subject an industrialized manufacturing hub, completely dependent on Iron and Coal that they do not naturally possess, they will quickly become compliant, as their economy would break without you. In contrast, it is very difficult to lower the Liberty Desire of large subjects, as you'd have to do a lot of development to make them entirely economically dependent on you.

[Dank Williams]

Well for one you can't annex protectorates, you first need to get them to Dominion and then Puppet. After that you can start a play to annex them but it's really not worth it.

[Dave Reckoning]

Originally posted by Matty1Monopoly:

Why can't I annex Protectorates?

Because you ain't learned patience.




Yet.