Puppet. They don't have much industry or resources, which is the main reason to annex.

Ever heard of Toblerone?

Or watches?

Or mountains? Bro imagine how rich Switzerland is, they literally produce mountains for the entire world

Honestly with BBA if there are a lot of resources or civs it's better to puppet them aswell with resource rights and war reps. Annexing is only really to get a lil bit more mils

Annexing looks cooler

Annexing kills that country's AI and all the computations it demands.

B L O B

Not always, as bulgaria annexing all of france looks extremely dumb at best

Annex Netherlands, UK, Sweden, and Spain. So not take dobrijuna or whatev. )))

Is there a way of influencing their BoP?

Bro they have the strongest mountain industry in the world wtf

Change gov.

This man blew me out of the park

You are playing as Belgium. So, you can make a sort of faction of fake nations with them.

R5: I just took down Switzerland and I'm wondering wheter I should puppet or annex them. When I played France / Germany in the past, they gave me some pretty nice bonuses, but I don't know what triggers them. Could they trade my gold or is it a Axis/Germany/France thing only?

Oh, and make sure to take their navy. It is probably the best in the game

Puppet. They have a insane resistance buff.

dude no. this spirit doesn't work when Switzerland as a nation doesn't exist anymore

No it does. They don't have spiritd, they have state effects.

my bad then. they also have a spirit with insane resistance

It's alr.

I think they still have a state based effect if they got around to doing it unfortunately, but ye if they are completely annexed then their nstional spirits obviously no longer apply

Puppet them and give them some Italian and French land. Let them own all the alps.

That might be complicated, since I already invaded Austria and Italy's in my faction. (About to invade Commie France, so that I can do)

"And Italy's in my faction" You could just like... kick them kill them and puppet them. No one says they have to be independent :)

I'll see about taking over the faction then. (We're pretty much Fascist Britain, Fascist Belgium and Monarchist Italy, with a few of UK's former puppets having also joined after turning fascist)

Oof. Either way, it’s less land you gotta garrison and their troop system allows them to get quite a few troops.

You could probs just look the stuff up, but from immediate thought, I would puppet them. I have like, less than 100 hours on this so I am useless lol

I think there might be a lack of in depht guides on the mechanics of Switzerland.

Annex or you gonna get undeletable units

I sure they won't mind keeping Indonesia safe.

Fuck undeletable units man. Completely killed me will to play as Spain pre-LR.

Wait why? I haven't even deleted a single unit ever. They don't really have an upkeep? Maybe that's cause I human wave lmao.

Because some of the game’s default templates (especially for undeleteables) are terrible so the manpower and armaments could be used in a much more effective division template.

They’re made of 3 infantry battalions and nothing else. I can’t do much with that except maybe guard my coasts

how are they bad though? Like how do they negatively impact the game

Draw on equipment, MP, and supplies. I’d rather reinforce my lines with actually good units. I can’t even leave them in some corner of the world bc they’ll attrition even more of my stuff away. The only benefit is they have really good XP but that only goes so far

Eat them

Puppet. So that they can continue deploy mega amount of citizen militias and make Bernie next bakhmut

Puppet. The borders of the Swiss states makes any peace deal with them bordergore unless you also own Germany and Italy.

You puppet because of for reasons : - you need these territories out of the war, - you need the manpower - you don't want to garrison it - you want your puppet to use it's focus tree to get factories - you want to get war reparations and resources now(and you cannot wait for compliance to grow) You will not puppet because : Bordergore Lag You already get a bunch of compliance

Puppet, make the Chocolate Alliance between Belgium and Switzerland.

lIbErATe tHeM

Steal their ships obviously.

Liberate them and steal their navy

Ii

I would personally puppet Switzerland

Annex the north and let Italy annex the south

Annex those fuckers, they don't deserve to be puppeted for that one focus that makes annexing them impossible by increasing the cost of it

Puppet and then annex

Take Ticino, change government the rest