Dumb Diplomacy: I think I may have discovered the solution.

[Fisherking]

I think everyone is missing a very important point here. It doesn't matter whether wars can occur in real life for irrational reasons. It doesn't matter whether or not the game would be boring if things were predictable.

What matters is that AI nations with tiny piddly little armies who are at feeble/destitute should NOT be declaring war ALONE on nations that are terrifying/spectacular because this is just suicide. I can't count the amount of times the AI has done this to my 50 province ultra-rich superpower and I have been forced to crush them without even trying.

Isn’t this what I have been complaining about since we go the patch?

The AI is aggressive but it has no means to do anything with. It just makes its self a one turn target. Even major powers end up this way. One region per turn and sometimes two. They have no means to resist.

No cash, high upkeep equals no armies or armies too weak to matter.

[Didz]

Yep! I think thats exactly what everyone is saying, so I'm not quite sure what the issue is.