Me? A protectorate?

**mightilyoats** · 02-19-2007, 12:52

Thats lame... Ok, I will extort them then if I need the cash... How does that work? Do you ask them with the protectorate proposal, or after you have become a protectorate?

**professorspatula** · 02-19-2007, 12:58

When they ask you to become their protectorate that's when you counter their offer with a demand for cash. Just make sure you don't end up with too much money at the end of the turn or you start paying massive tributes that will end up leaving you with nothing.

**César Victor** · 02-19-2007, 19:08

Gaul keep asking my German king to become protectorate. They also asked countless times so in the end I accepted, only to attack them the same turn :P

**Mooks** · 02-20-2007, 04:51

Protectorates work profitfully if the computer cant attack you without taking a hundred mile boat trip. Say...if your roman and they are parthian. If theyre your protectorate then you get a small income bonus and theyre friendly.

Also, if you dont feel like controlling a troublesome territory, then you can give it all to your protectorate and sail away. Basically what the romans did frequently in reality.

**Caius** · 02-20-2007, 13:24

Protectorates are good for delaying a war, and gain trade rights

**germanpeon** · 02-20-2007, 17:56

In all of my games, Ive never gotten anything out of accepting an offer to become a protectorate other than a false sense of security for about five milliseconds before they go ahead and siege one of my towns anyway.