This probably has been posted before but I figured a trick out recently.
If you lay seige to every province of a faction you are at war with then withdraw all your forces at once you will no longer be at war with them. I find this extreamly usefull and not at all cheesy, so im wondering if others do this and if it is common knowledge.
It makes sense to me that this would be coded in as to give the player an alternative to totally annihilateing enemies, since they never accept cease fires.
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