Sure fine, replace what gets destroyed and taek them
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But the ships are crap and they can't make offensive operations, so it seemed reasonable. Conquering them for whatever reason will still be a rollover.
. You're right that they need to be viable, and we all agreed on that here. I would say the should have a couple of conscripts per city, even 3 in Berlin, a couple of transports, a few Engineers and not much else to start off with. You yourself made it economically viable, and I've no problem with that, and I don't want their cities to be revolting either.

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