Quote Originally Posted by Frtigern View Post
I am wondering because I am playing a Getai campaign and am looking for good expansion options worthy of assimilating for other culture's unique units. I am planning to go north to the Baltic and taking the Amber Route and am wondering if I must build type 4 governments all the way up, because Client Rulers are expensive and sometimes undesirable characters and sometimes I have a glut of good family members that I want to give a province to, without being interlopers.

Thank you
I don't think you'll actually need a Type IV in any of these regions. The units you want - Lugii/Boii/Germanic/Oskywie swordsmen, Leuce Epos, Baltic units, Bastarnae falxmen, Reidonez (not sure if you can have those), Vojinos, etc. - require tier 4 regional MIC at most. The Baltic units only require a tier 3 one (which doesn't matter since you can't build a Type II govt in these provinces anyway).