Quote Originally Posted by PseRamesses View Post
Personally I don´t mind the "total war" feature, however unrealistic it seems after all its the battles I love. Last night Wurttemberg declared war on me, Spain, with 45 provinces, more ships than the rest of the world combined and 12 standing elite stacks ready to go, sigh! WHY???
Now here comes the real bugger. I park my best stack outside Frankfurt? and let their puny stack of 7 crappy units attack me. I win ofcourse and only one badly hurt militia escapes to the settlement. Thay have no more troops, anywere! I offer them a blank peace - NO! I, just for fun, offer them Westphalia, Flanders and Netherlands....aaaand 100.000 cash, what do they reply? Yes, you already guessed it - NO! OMG, pissed I assaulted Frankfurt and gifted it to Bavaria. No more Wurttemberg.

This is not the first time this happens. It happens EVERY time. CA/ SEGA should send some trainees over to Paradox and learn how to script realistic diplomatic AI behaviour.
PseRamesses, its the battles I love too but not these sorts of battles, the sort of battle you mention sounds really boring and a foregone conclusion, I wouldve auto resolved it - its these sorts of battles I hate, its these sorts of battles that make the 'Total War' a boring grind of hundreds of pissy little battles that remove any sort of immersion in the game and are meaningless.

The annoying thing is the game wasnt doing this initially, this has been 'fixed' by CA to make the game more M2TW like - this is the exact reason I hated M2TW - wars without context - stupid AI pattern wars - faction A shares border with B - WAR, or launch naval invasion - spain to wales - scotland to norway.

Im sure the more aggressive AI Total WAR crowd will be happy to play 1 or 2 campaigns - which they prolly wont finish and put the game away and be happy with the value they got out of the game - but for me Im looking at the replayability of this game, and CA has killed the game. I think the real reason Ive started ranting about it is because I want to play this game now but wont because of the terrible CAI, and even if they fix it. By that time I will probably have moved on out of frustration or not be able to go back to playing it because I will still see the patterned M2TW AI behaviours - the immersion has been hit by a full volley at close range - and I dont think I will be able to get it back.

What happened to the EPIC battles? - CA have lost them somewhere between MTW and here, and theyve lost me until they get them back.