Kalt
10-05-2002, 18:14
I always play on expert. I have serious trouble ever convincing factions I beat down into accepting a cease-fire. Simply offering them a cease-fire every turn never works, beating them into submission and leaving them with 1 empty province, less than 10 troops and no buildings THEN offering a cease-fire doesnt work.......
Offering to marry princesses doesn't work, asking their princesses to marry you doesnt work. Using rank 4 emissaries doesnt work, using Priests/Alims doesn't work.
Nothing I have tried has ever worked. It seems like, once I go to war with a faction, my only recourse is to eliminate their faction entirely. This is very annoying.
In my turk early campaign, I eliminated Egypt, but the Almos are confined to portugal, the Poles are confined to silecia, and the Hungarians are locked up tight in croatia. These 3 enemies of mine are allied to virtually everyone, leaving me zero diplomatic options.
I am asking you all if there is ANY WAY to somehow make peace with these poor, wretched, gimp factions.
(I know I can use spies to kill the faction with revolts, wait till another faction occupies their lands, then use spies to provoke a re-emergence against the new occupier. That is a whole lot of trouble to go through though.)
p.s. why to nations that sneak attack, STILL sneak attack even though I load the previous turn and dump undefeatable super-army stacks in the targetting province which can wipe out the attackers while taking less than 10 losses on autocalc? I killed a byzantine king and like 3 princes that way: they attacked with 200 crap troops against my 2000+ elite troops with a rank 9 general......
Offering to marry princesses doesn't work, asking their princesses to marry you doesnt work. Using rank 4 emissaries doesnt work, using Priests/Alims doesn't work.
Nothing I have tried has ever worked. It seems like, once I go to war with a faction, my only recourse is to eliminate their faction entirely. This is very annoying.
In my turk early campaign, I eliminated Egypt, but the Almos are confined to portugal, the Poles are confined to silecia, and the Hungarians are locked up tight in croatia. These 3 enemies of mine are allied to virtually everyone, leaving me zero diplomatic options.
I am asking you all if there is ANY WAY to somehow make peace with these poor, wretched, gimp factions.
(I know I can use spies to kill the faction with revolts, wait till another faction occupies their lands, then use spies to provoke a re-emergence against the new occupier. That is a whole lot of trouble to go through though.)
p.s. why to nations that sneak attack, STILL sneak attack even though I load the previous turn and dump undefeatable super-army stacks in the targetting province which can wipe out the attackers while taking less than 10 losses on autocalc? I killed a byzantine king and like 3 princes that way: they attacked with 200 crap troops against my 2000+ elite troops with a rank 9 general......