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[Orange Wizard]

If its not going to siege, what is it going to do?  Forever war?

I think it would keep checking until it had recovered enough manpower to actually complete the siege..?

Or use mercenaries

Or negotiate a peace that doesn't involve costly sieges. Which would require tweaks to how warscore works, which I am 100% in favour of

[EnigmaticHat]

No no, to get peace you need to complete the wargoal, wait 10 years, defeat all enemy armies, capture all enemy provinces, capture and execute the enemy leader, wait for the enemy heir to come of age, then ritually disembowel them over the grave of the previous ruler.  In that order.

It will only work if both the ruler and the heir are virgins, which is literally impossible.  Paradox is still working out the glitches.

[Micro102]

I am hating the new retreat AI the more I play the game. The AI decides seemingly randomly to either not move away from a province, fighting another battle and dying, or moving one province away when there is an entire country to walk through, and then getting stack wiped by the army it moved one tile away from. But of course when the AI decides it wants to move far away, it picks the furthest province possible. There just doesn't seem to be any logic behind it.

[Orange Wizard]

Shattered retreats aren't very new, but yes, they are terrible.

[forsaken1111]

And there IS logic to them, obviously. It's a pretty idiotic mechanic imo, but I understand the reasoning for it.

[Loud Whispers]

The shit thing as well is you can't manually stage a retreat, even if you leave behind another army as your rearguard in battle. The reason is, if you retreat, you now lower the morale of everyone behind you - causing all of them to die which alongside the morale hit of your first retreating army means you save more morale and more men by fighting to the last man.
Shattered retreats save more lives than organized retreats. wat

[Rex_Nex]

I was playing Milan and having a pretty nice early game when I noticed Venice was vulnerable, having been attacked by the Ottomans. I declared war on them for Brescia and it's pretty rough, but I get by knowing that as soon as the Ottomans land in Italy and stackwipe them, I have the war in the bag. Everything going according to plan, Venice gets stackwiped, I siege down Brescia and go back to siege my capital back from Venezian control so that I'm not forced to give into demands. I figured I'd just spend some extra admin on increasing stability if Venice tries to back out while I'm still sieging.

...and Venice send six demands for peace on the same exact day, drops my stab by 6 in a single tick, and my country force-capitulates & implodes. What the heck? Doesn't the AI also have to wait between diplomatic actions? I was trying really hard not to get in the habit of reloading my saves, but stuff like this makes it hard.

[Micro102]

I was playing Milan and having a pretty nice early game when I noticed Venice was vulnerable, having been attacked by the Ottomans. I declared war on them for Brescia and it's pretty rough, but I get by knowing that as soon as the Ottomans land in Italy and stackwipe them, I have the war in the bag. Everything going according to plan, Venice gets stackwiped, I siege down Brescia and go back to siege my capital back from Venezian control so that I'm not forced to give into demands. I figured I'd just spend some extra admin on increasing stability if Venice tries to back out while I'm still sieging.

...and Venice send six demands for peace on the same exact day, drops my stab by 6 in a single tick, and my country force-capitulates & implodes. What the heck? Doesn't the AI also have to wait between diplomatic actions? I was trying really hard not to get in the habit of reloading my saves, but stuff like this makes it hard.

Yeah that shouldn't happen.

Anyway, if you need a possible work around for that, you can leave the demands up for what I think is 3 months before they will automatically cancel/accept (I think it's whichever the first choice is). So that's about 3 more siege ticks.

[Orange Wizard]

Having finally lost my Revolutionary France game (bohemiablob+mexicoblob+polandblob too stronk) I started playing as Castile. Lead a crusade into North Africa against Tunis and their Ottoman allies. My ally Austria was conquering Nuremburg or something and didn't want to join at first, but when the popup appeared I went to invite them to the war but clicked "Dissolve Alliance" instead. Then they rivalled me. RIP.

[Micro102]

Having finally lost my Revolutionary France game (bohemiablob+mexicoblob+polandblob too stronk) I started playing as Castile. Lead a crusade into North Africa against Tunis and their Ottoman allies. My ally Austria was conquering Nuremburg or something and didn't want to join at first, but when the popup appeared I went to invite them to the war but clicked "Dissolve Alliance" instead. Then they rivalled me. RIP.

Load a save. Even if it's ironman if you make a mistake then exit out of it through task manager.

[Persus13]

Reminds me of the time in a game where I needed to befriend Austira, but accidentally insulted them instead of sending my diplomat to improve relations with them.

[EnigmaticHat]

"I hear in their lands, cow manure is considered a great gift."

[Loud Whispers]

"I hear in their lands, cow manure is considered a great gift."

Only in CKII

[EnigmaticHat]

Well obviously, that's how they power all their bombs.

[Persus13]

Amusing enough for me to sig, thanks.