Roman: Julii

[Sand]

So who can advise me on this one? I want to end the war with Germany so I can properly wage war on Spain. By the time Spain is done it will probably be Civil War time so I don't want any distractions then either. I want to end war with Germany so that Britain can continue fighting them and I won't have to deal with either one for awhile.

Best of luck tbh - in my experience diplomacy is effectively pointless. Enemies rarely agree to make peace, rarely stick to alliances, rarely trade world maps after the first few turns, even more rarely accept protectorate status and so on and so forth. Apparently there are means to force them to agree, if youre blockading all their ports, have 12 full stack armies seiging their last city, and their down to a 1 unit peasant army - but if youve gone to all that bother why call the whole thing off with a peace deal?

Diplomats are only good for bribery (less so these days), selling maps for cash(less so these days), protecting your armies/cities from bribery and getting trade rights early on - before the AI begins its aeons of unending war with you.

My advice to you in this case would be to hold on Spain for a tad, use the army you have in Germania to take the last two cities, exterminate them - The screams will help relieve the frustration of having to waste time in Germania, believe me - and give them to the British as gifts. It probably wont stop the British stabbing you in the back, but we can dream. Anyway, Londinium and Sambrovia run very profitable trade routes between each other so it might be worth the investment of time in that particular case.

The other option is to offer the Germans peace, all the regions you took, 400,000 dennarii and your first born children as sacrifices to their dark gods and perhaps then they might agree to make peace with you. Maybe. If the stars align and the anceint prophecies are fufilled.

Yes Im bitter about the insane AI demands for peace. Its like theyve all got William Wallace on retainer as a consultant negotiator, with his demands for the enemy to kiss their own arse as part of the peace deal.

[gardibolt]

Yeah, there's virtually no way to get a ceasefire diplomatically. Your only real hope of ending the war is extermination of the faction. I'd wipe out the Spanish to secure the Iberian peninsula and then concentrate on the Germans. That way you can shift excess troops from Spain to Germany and then down to your starting cities (or directly to your starting cities if you're doing OK in Germany); the other way round is awkward and you end up moving spare troops away from Rome where you know you're going to need them.

One extremely costly alternative would be to gift all regions that border on Germany to the Britons, and hope they actually come take them before the Germans get there, but that really is cutting off your nose to spite your face.

[GreatEmperor]

And if you can't see the northeastern part of the worldmap try to buy map information from the Scythians or maybe the Germans.