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    The Dam Dog Senior Member Sheogorath's Avatar
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    Default Re: Diplomacy is entirely broken

    Actually, I've found that the German States at least have VERY active armies.

    In my UP campaign, Westphalia and Austria have been at war pretty much since the start of the game. Westphillia has annexed most of the other German states besides Hannover and Saxony, and I gave them France because Savoy (who I gave it to before, because nobody else wanted it or would pay me for it :\) back stabbed me.

    Now The Westphalians are actually fighting a very active war with the Austrians. Provinces are changing hands with regularity and there's been several major battles. It's a stalemate, though, which would seem kind of odd, but for some reason the minor factions seem to have better strategic/tactical AI than the majors, even the landlocked ones like Austria and Prussia.
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    Default Re: Diplomacy is entirely broken

    Quote Originally Posted by Sheogorath View Post
    Actually, I've found that the German States at least have VERY active armies.

    In my UP campaign, Westphalia and Austria have been at war pretty much since the start of the game. Westphillia has annexed most of the other German states besides Hannover and Saxony, and I gave them France because Savoy (who I gave it to before, because nobody else wanted it or would pay me for it :\) back stabbed me.

    Now The Westphalians are actually fighting a very active war with the Austrians. Provinces are changing hands with regularity and there's been several major battles. It's a stalemate, though, which would seem kind of odd, but for some reason the minor factions seem to have better strategic/tactical AI than the majors, even the landlocked ones like Austria and Prussia.
    Austria’s units and order of battle are also crap. Most minor factions have better troops!


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    I have found the German city states to be extremely passive militarily. However, since I try and make them my protectorates early on that may nerf them somewhat. However, when I drag them into war with a neighbouring country (say Austria, Denmark, UP or France) they just sit around gazing at their navels, and even have half their army in a town on the opposite side of the province from where the enemy is.
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    From German minors, I've seen Westphalia own whole Western Germany and Netherlands. Hannover always goes after Denmark and they often raid their farms, school etc. but can't get to Copenhagen because Denmark always has ships nearby.
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    Minor Nations are usually passive because the AI seems to be programmed to protect their capital/last settlement with all their military strength.

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    Don't know if this has happened to anyone but as Maratha I was "funding" the Ottoman's war with...basically the rest of the world. After each turn I'd give whatever cash I had left over to them. It ranged from 2k to 30k.

    I was never allied with them, just peace and a trade agreement.

    Then one day they declared war on me :(

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    be wary doing this with warmongering nations, I did that to the Mughal empire (and allied with them) and they got all the way to constantinople with my money, and then they declared war on my other ally venice. When I sided with venice, every ally IMMEDIATELY hated me, even my protectorates were hostile for defending an ally from an agressive one?, which makes NO SENSE. because that would mean if I went on the mughals side, everytime they decided to attack an ally of mine, I'd ahve to side with them and all my other allies would get wiped out and I wouldn't ahve been much of an ally to them.
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