The other day I got all the long-VH-campaign requirements for Prussia around 1760. that happened in a game where I purposely shot myself in my feet (both of them!) a couple times at the beginning of the campaign. To be honest, it was the first time I played to this point, fulfilling the campaign requirements completely. I have to note I was especially 'gentle' with other European nations, taking care to expand only where the campaign goals required me to expand and picking the remaining 25-count provinces from pirates, etc.
So, up comes the system message "Congratulations, you've fulfilled the campaign requiremens, blah, blah, blah... If you keep what you have until 1799 you'll win the game..." Great, I thought, the 'system' must be saying this with an evil grin. The AI will raise hell now.
I press the 'end-turn-button'...
And, voila!... 1-province Venice (a long term trading partner with 'very friendly relationship') declares war on the 25-province Prussia. Not the 20-something province Russia*, which has taken Ottoman territories all the way to Bosphorus and a chunk of former Austrian holdings; not the Spanish who have the greatest fleet, not the British (who have done quite well in the Americas). No... it's the 1-province Venice who decides to 'punish' me for my wanton expansion. Sure, that backstabbing pinched a bit: after all, I had granted Venice military access and they had some militia units camping out in my Austrian holdings before they declared the war. Anyway, Prussian dragoons are not far...
Hope the new gameplay patch fixes this.
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* interestingly enough, AI Russia did expand all the way to Bosphorus, but neglected to take Georgia and Dagestan, which supposedly are on their list of 'things to do'...
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