

The vassals of Assyria: a cordon of buffer states Other regions were under the control of local governments, although Assyria made sure that its interests were also represented appropriately in these seemingly independent states. I don't know that I really want to but I'm more curious what it would take to remove him if I should ever get to the point of wanting to.By the second half of the 8th century BC, the Assyrian Empire controlled vast regions in the Middle East directly: these were the provinces that constituted the Assyrian state, administered by Assyrian governors whose position was not heritable but was awarded at the king's discretion. Is it possible to remove Ghandi as a Vassal if I should want to do so, or is that up to Ghandi to decide to do? I've clicked on the Vassal State listing in our agreements and a small window pops up that tells me that I can't ummm, I don't know what it says exactly, but in essence tells me that I can't remove him as a vassat state.

I hope to obviously get better at empire management so that I don't really need to rely on a merchant to pop up to subsidize my income.
CIVILIZATION 4 VASSAL STATE HOW TO
So far the maintenance hasn't affected me at all, but since I'm a newb and really don't know how to properly run my nation, I've simply been relying on great merchants at 4500g a trip, which allows me to maintain a 100% research rate, or a combo of research and culture/espionage etc while slowly dwindling my gold resources down until the next merchant pops up for me, can't really be sure if it's only happend 2 or 3 times now (the merchant) and don't know when it will end, but so far in this particular games it's been keeping me afloat. It is not pretty when a tech-whore like Mansa Musa peace vassals to a warmonger like Shaka and then proceeds to feed the friendly little warmonger advanced military techs while himself gunning towards a peaceful victory condition. This isn't capitulation, he can and will break the agreement if it becomes profitable for him to do so.Īccepting a peace-vassal is generally a screw job for the player, but sometimes it is a lesser screw-job than having him peace vassal to another AI. You are now responsible for protecting him while he culture whores or techs for space. Hidden negative diplomatic modifiers for all civs who dislike Ghandi but otherwise like you. 1 diplomatic relations with all rivals for having a vassal.

+1 Happy in your cities for having a vassal.Ĭons: His cities will count against you for # of cities maintenance, dragging on your economy. You can direct his research and he will always trade with you if you can meet his price. The next time you are in a war you have, um, Ghandi on your side. While he is your vassal you get 1/2 of his population and 1/2 of his land for purposes of calculating the domination victory condition.
