I have had the odd notion for a while that the easy and normal difficulties are a little more difficult than the hard and very hard in the campaigns...not battles as those give the AI bonuses. They may just have the values standing on their heads but there is just something there...

It used to be in 1.1 & 1.2 to a lesser degree for the player it was usually simple to get a cease fire. Playing in Normal the AI just won't make peace. This is my 4th campaign in 1.3.1 and I have only had one offer excepted.

Russia was always an easy bet to get peace. In the last two campaigns as Austria and Prussia they had to be eliminated.

I played the Austrian Campaign until I had peace. It was 1815 and there were only a dozen nations left in the game. All the rest were dead. Austria stretched unbroken from Portugal to all of India. All of Africa too. I only had a few islands in the Americas and I started not one of the wars. I offered peace to everyone but the only way I ever got peace was by putting them all in the grave.