War - peace - war - peace, ...

[Skoran]

In my KH campaign Rome and Carthage keep declaring war on eachother and making peace the next turn.
This means they both don't expand at all.

This is going to be kinda boring once I am out of Greece and start a war with Rome.

Is there no way I can keep these 2 of making war? I tried for diplomacy but for some reason you can't force them to attack another faction.

[MButcher]

You could wait until they're at war, then use move_character to send all their diplomats away.

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

They are probably going to war on and off again because one of them is besieging Messana on and off and every time they siege it war is automatically declared between the two. Then if they don't take the town, the two powers don't border each other so the AI sees no threat and decides to get a ceasefire. I would place my money on that scenario.

[Celtic_Punk]

give one of them the settlement, and then watch the fighting begin

btw, brave sir robin. are you the bravely bold sir robin who nearly fought the dragon of angor?

[/Bean\]

I know all the words to that song... :)

To remain on topic, I would quite like to roleplay constant war/peace between those two. Massive rising tensions and so on, and you can possibly 'help' Carthage in Spain, or Rome in Gaul, which would increase tensions, and then do MButchers idea to force war. Possibly move their armies to make their theaters of war. Would be very interesting.

[Macilrille]

His problem is that neither does anything about it, but that both are so focused on Messana that they do not grow to present him with a challenge.

[Dyabedes of Aphrodisias]

I had this problem in my campaign as the Sweboz. But it wasn't over Messana, it was over the Balearics as far as I could see. They were held by the Romani, but there were three Carthaginian stacks around the city, and a diplomat from each faction. So I just FDd the city to the Carthaginians and moved the stacks to Sicily to initiate an actual war, and sent the diplomats to the steppes.