It possible to fabricate claims on a province even if the current country has a claim on some of the territories in that province belonging to the target country, as long as the target country owns at least one unclaimed territory in the target province. Truces do not block claim fabrication therefore, after attacking a large power, it is useful to use the years of truce to fabricate claims in order to gain a casus belli and reduced war score cost and aggressive expansion in the next war. This means that for larger nations who have too many provinces to fabricate claims on in a reasonable amount of time, it is possible to start fabrication of a claim the month before declaring war, finish fabricating while the claim is ongoing, and then have it available once the peace treaty is being negotiated. While claims cannot be fabricated on a country that the current country is already at war with, any existing claim fabrications will continue. If a country ceases to control any territories inside the province that claims are being fabricated on, the fabrication process will end immediately with no claim being awarded or political influence refunded. A nation cannot start fabricating another claim if it is already fabricating a claim on that same country, but a country can fabricate on as many different countries concurrently as it can afford. The claim will be awarded on all owned territories in the province once progress reaches 100%, for a base claim fabrication time of 25 months (in practice, the contribution for ruler charisma means that it is usually somewhat faster, unless the country has very high aggressive expansion). Fabricating claims has a base cost of 20 political influence, modified by the fabricate claim cost modifier, and each claim fabrication has a base monthly progress of 4% per month, which can be increased or decreased by claim fabrication speed modifiers.
neighbouring the current country or sharing a nearby coast, if the country also controls a coast) belonging to a country within diplomatic range that is not at war with the current country.
Note that this is not an exhaustive list there are many other less common ways to get claims, particularly flavour events and decisions.įabricating claims Ĭlaims can be created using the Fabricate Claims diplomatic action, usable on any province with a territory within control range (i.e. Common, generalizable sources of claims are listed and described below.