ORIGINAL: Soapy Frog
zaquex; simplest reading of the rules leads us to control of a minor being absolute, and on lapse of war the controlling power retains that country as a freestate (or conquered minor if a minor without corps).
I know and I dont argue that, what im trying to say is that there is a significant group of EiA players that have another interpretation. Possibly because they think the game becomes more interesting. They argue there position from the AiE rules so they dont think of it as a house rule.