Er... maybe that's why?





Have to agree with the original poster; I like how in my HRE campaign that, say, my ally Venice can attack Vienna with no repercussions from either the Pope or from my other allies...


...I can repulse them, and then besiege Venice with my main army...


...and then, right as they're about to be starved out, first have Sicily (both my ally and Venice's) attack me, and then suddenly I find myself having a ceasefire with Venice for absolutely no reason whatever and now facing the Sicilians, who also managed to avoid both the Pope and my allies' wrath...


So, when my army reaches Naples, am I going to suddenly find out that the Sicilians also obtain a magical ceasefire from thin air and then, say, be excommunicated for, I dunno, existing?