Gaining a Protectorate vs. adding another region to your growing empire might be immersive in game terms but they seem to be the target of stronger allies and trade partners who would not go to war otherwise.
The benefits of a protectorate are that you get half their income and a staunch ally. You also usually get troops at the founding which will help in your conquests of further territory.
Each time I have elected to make a region into a protectorate I have gotten burned. It has not always happened immediately but it always happens.
The most meaningful coincidence I have observed is that when the last of my troops exit the region a neighbor and perhaps all of their allies will declare war on the new nation.
Even in the Italian Campaign, the Pope went to war with Piedmont as soon as there were no French troops left in their area.
I am as yet unsure if leaving troops there would prevent the adventurism but I do intend to find out.
How about the rest of you. Do the benefits out weigh the risks. And even at that isn’t it more beneficial to own the region and receive 100% of the wealth vs. 50% and a few units.
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