Confederation or out right conquer?

[omegakaoz]

Is it better to go through the event chains and try to get empire factions to confederate with Franz or should I just outright conquer them. So fair the only real empire factions that sided with me were stirland and talabecland which tend to be the highest in fealty along with Solland.

[Sentient Roomba]

you get massive penalties to your imperial authority when you declare war on the other elector counts.

[Hollywood]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Dr. Mantis Toboggan:

you get massive penalties to your imperial authority when you declare war on the other elector counts.

[omegakaoz]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Dr. Mantis Toboggan:

you get massive penalties to your imperial authority when you declare war on the other elector counts.

Gotcha thanks but my followup question is now, lets say I go through the event chain of siding with a higher fealty count and sort of forced that already lower fealty count like Middenland or Wissenland to rebel and I march in and destroy both counts. How does that affect my rule negatively I was in a defensive war. I now have -7 authority for destroying two counts that had >3 fealty to me. I also had confederated Tabecland too.

[Happy]

Probably war I'd say. With the exception of probably Gelt & Toddy. Plus there is a pretty good chance the other electors will get killed off sooner by the Vampires anyway.

[JODEGAFUN]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Happy:

Probably war I'd say. With the exception of probably Gelt & Toddy. Plus there is a pretty good chance the other electors will get killed off sooner by the Vampires anyway.

Expect Averland to die within 10 turns, you need activ keep Stirland alive ore they will die too.

[Happy]

Oprindeligt skrevet af JODEGAFUN:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Happy:

Probably war I'd say. With the exception of probably Gelt & Toddy. Plus there is a pretty good chance the other electors will get killed off sooner by the Vampires anyway.

Expect Averland to die within 10 turns, you need activ keep Stirland alive ore they will die too.

you can always revive them with Empire mechanic later down the track though.

[sergiomorozov]

If you conquer, you get their settlements at -1 level, if you confederate, you get their settlements intact, and you get all their enchanted items.

[Dominic]

Confederate if possible
NEVER declare war on another empire faction, but if they pick a fight, feel free to smash them

[Ysthrall]

Ironically, the same strategy as at launch of game 1:

Pick the ones who are friendly to you, and back them up, working towards confederation. Avoid military/defensive alliance, they'll drag you into stupid wars.

The ones who are hostile, ignore them until they declare war on you, get eaten by vampires, whatever. Then crush them.