God i am so furious right now. I am at 50% Westernisation, when the second big war comes in, this time not vs France, but against Castille, England and Portugal. Yay. I try to defend somehow, but it just won't work, they start carpet sieging me. But...well, i am really big. So it takes time. And while they do it, all those little reactionaries start to pop up. And of course the AI and the AI sit right next to each other, sieging provinces back and forth but never attacking each other, noooooo. So, while i see my provinces going up in flames, i try to consolidate what i have, sit it out, wait for the peace offer to give them like 10 provinces and then survive the next 10 years to get westernisation done and get them back. But no. Portugal, who is warleader, just does not want to end the war. They are at 99%, for about 3 years and they don't end it. The maximum i can give them is a warscore of 26 fucking procent, which would give them 100% overextension. Meanwhile spain and England give me peace offers every 3 weeks, but i can't take them, cause it would only mean that Portugal takes even longer to siege each and every province. And meanwhile, there are like 15 reactionaries uprisings that just get ignored by the europeans until they siege a province, what takes 100 westernisatikon progress from me, and then they siege the province back. I am 3 months away from bankruptcy, There are about 60k reactionaries out there and all the invaders are at low war enthusiasm but nevermind, why would the AI peace out of a war, where they can't accomplish more then just fucking break the player character. I get it. Don't play as a native american. This is the most stupid thing ever.

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

June 10 2014 21:58 GMT

#1223

loool

Velr

Switzerland10834 Posts

June 10 2014 22:04 GMT

#1224

but there seems to be an issue with the AI not making piece.

In a recent game i had Jemen at war against Najd for 50 years (then i went in and "ended" it for both of them... Jemen wanted 100% peace/vasallisation but couldn't walk to the island with the land connection and was too dumb to build 6 ships to break najds navy...
In the same game the Ottomans were at war with Muscovy for even longer (Ottomans at ~-30 for over 50 years)...

KtheZ

United States813 Posts

June 11 2014 00:06 GMT

#1225

Actually I saw a similar issue. Moldavia attacked crimea but couldnt siege all the provinces, so they occupied 6/10 provinces for like 60 years, until i warred them. Then they insta peaced. Weird

Dangermousecatdog

United Kingdom7084 Posts

June 11 2014 00:16 GMT

#1226

I had the same thing with Naples vs the papal states. Papal states all taken but avignon. For 20 years. Till Naples got draw into an allince vs France and lost.

darthfoley

United States8004 Posts

June 14 2014 06:59 GMT

#1227

The "defect after 6 months" feature makes conquest so much easier lol.
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Mongol Horde too strong. Not sure whether I should venture further West before taking out Jin/Song. I'm very low on manpower so it will be a while before I do another long-ish war. I think Jin is next on the list.

snailz

Croatia900 Posts

June 14 2014 10:21 GMT

#1228

i would like to thank 419, his campaigns made me change my mind and give EU4 a chance even tho i dislike the history period and am crazy in love with CK2 to the point i feel annoyed about its hot younger sister that wants to get into my pants

Chocolate

United States2350 Posts

June 15 2014 03:18 GMT

#1229

What the fuck, Paradox. They still haven't fixed the bug that prevents you from cancelling a trade power transfer (in updated EU4 without WoN).

darthfoley

United States8004 Posts

June 15 2014 05:11 GMT

#1230

Fear the Horde!

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Stretches from the Korean Bay to modern day Crimea; will probably finish off Song before heading North into the Russian areas. It's been pretty easy so far; my force limit is like 280 now.

5c0rp10n

Germany342 Posts

June 17 2014 09:56 GMT

#1231

bought this game on sunday and played 11 hours since then. even tho i lost all of my games yet, its so much fun. its also cool that i can start with my hometown brunswick!

Bourneq

Sweden800 Posts

June 17 2014 16:44 GMT

#1232

On June 17 2014 18:56 5c0rp10n wrote:
bought this game on sunday and played 11 hours since then. even tho i lost all of my games yet, its so much fun. its also cool that i can start with my hometown brunswick!

Loosing is the best part

RvB

Netherlands6261 Posts

June 17 2014 16:59 GMT

#1233

Just remember that you have plenty of time. Take it slow initially and wait for a moment your enemy is weak. Patience is probably the best tip I can give any beginner.

Yurie

12004 Posts

June 18 2014 20:42 GMT

#1234

darthfoley which mod are you playing?

Havn't played the game since the new expansion arrived. Did it change a lot? Skimmed through the change log and didn't seem like it did.

5c0rp10n

Germany342 Posts

June 19 2014 10:16 GMT

#1235

damn, played england and now i got kind of a problem. i conquered ireland and two regions of scotland. then france, castille and austria joined the war alongside the scotsmen. my allies were savoy and portugal. the only region i got on the continent was calais so the war goal for french was to conquer it. my allies lost all their regions but i have the fleet, so i killed all our enemies ships. my warscore is -70 but they cant conquer me and i cant reconquer calais. i just dont want to surrender because they cant get to me. their surrender conditions are ridiculous. i have to give up whole ireland plus the two scotish regions i own... i think the war will last >100 years. is that normal for a big war like this in that game?

Victolol

Germany46 Posts

June 19 2014 10:25 GMT

#1236

Well stalemates can happen in oversea wars.
Try blockading as many ports as you can, that will boost your warscore and hurt their income. Depending on how much better your fleet is & how many ports can be blockaded you should be able to reach a white peace like this.

Simberto

Germany11716 Posts

June 19 2014 12:13 GMT

#1237

Yeah, just chill, and kill their shit once it lands. At some point your continental allies will peace out seperately, which should tip the war score towards your side because you don't have all these controlled provinces weighting you down. If there is no danger for you, there is no reason to take a bad peace. Blockade shit, kill their fleets, kill what lands on your island. Depending on your continental ambitions you can either give them Calais, or wait a few years for a white peace. Expect the whole ordeal to take 5-10 years.

If the enemies get bored, you might even be able to get seperate peaces with some nations beforehand and turn the whole thing around, but i doubt you'll be able to fight France in a continental war.

Regarding those scottish and irish regions, this might be a silly question, but do you ACTUALLY own them because you have got them in a peace deal(they are in your colour), or do you just control them currently (their colour, but striped with yours). In the first case, you can keep them in a white peace. In the second case, you will need to win the war to get a few of them. Just because you control something does not mean you actually own it, reasonable peace deals are a main part of the game, and you usually only get to keep a few of the provinces you took over.

snailz

Croatia900 Posts

June 19 2014 13:12 GMT

#1238

silly question

how do you go to war with native tribes in NA without declaring with no CB? i just love my stability and would hate to lose 2 points just so i can begin colonization process, yet i can't fabricate any claims because i don't border anyone...