Peace

[Singleton Mosby]

I want to have peace with a neighbour but all my offers are dismissed by him. What should I offer to get peace?

(btw. I am winning the war or it is a standoff but I just don't want to conquer all of his.)_

[DVX BELLORVM]

In my experience, the only way to have a lasting peace with your neighbors, is to CONQUER them...

[Singleton Mosby]

That's bad. I would really like to make peace with them

[Quillan]

Why bother? I have the same experience as you; most of the other factions refuse to make peace. Those who do make peace generally attack you again. So, if I don't want to conquer them, I turn it into a training ground. I destroy the bulk of their military, take some key provinces, but make sure to leave them enough territory to be viable from an economic standpoint. Then I leave an army behind to destroy whatever forces they recruit to attack me. I get veteran troops from it and gain experience for my younger generals.

[Arciel]

Just a thought though. Have you tried using the "Accept or we will attack" offer in diplomacy? In my case, it never fails to get me a ceasefire or more, depending on our relative strengths. Dunno about this, but try parking a full stack army near one of their cities and start negotiating with a diplomat, preferably 4-6 wreathes in influence.

[Tamur]

As Seedexodus says, the key to this is to park full stacks around the enemy faction's cities (optimally more than one stack on more than one city). This is seen as a threat by the AI, who will be much more likely to give you a Ceasefire, since the AI faction will gain an immediate end to the threat you've got sitting on their doorstep(s).

If you conquer a province, then your ability to threaten the enemy actually *decreases* according to how the AI thinks of things. So keeping your full stacks visible and positioned well is important.

[Singleton Mosby]

Just a thought though. Have you tried using the "Accept or we will attack" offer in diplomacy? In my case, it never fails to get me a ceasefire or more, depending on our relative strengths. Dunno about this, but try parking a full stack army near one of their cities and start negotiating with a diplomat, preferably 4-6 wreathes in influence.

Going to try this tomorrow. Yesterday I was able to make a peace with the Carthagians.