Uh, is that a strat? Just make em fear u? What else Army and Navy I guess?
Yes, a giant army is a deterrent against coalitions, just Ally the biggest kids on the block and turn the extra development from conquest into a bigger armysize and they only declare once they think they can win.
Yes, the AI only declares war if they're absolutely sure they'll win.
it takes a LOT for a coalition to fire.
In my provence game i had a coalition of 300k troops against my+allies 180k and it never fired.
Even better - I am playing France now and for last 100 years there is a coalition about 6x times my troops, never bothered by them
meanwhile the OTTOMANS are actually destroying me by repeatedly attacking my PU subject with their 300k troops and infinite manpower....
AI logic is weird.
Or when they're dumb. Like Portugal in my Mamluks game.
Which is exactly why the sound of being declared on is absolutely terrifying. It means you fucked up big time.
In my games there always comes a point where coalitions never form anymore unless literally the whole world gets called into it (which it won't as diff religion and diff culture group nations don't give F about each other).
The AI never makes coalitions against opponents they don't think they could beat.
It always amuses me when I've got like a -600 AE with the Ottomans after gutting them and then Austria's at like -6 AE.
Because clearly this giant Horde stretching from Manchuria to the Balkans is just gonna crush the Ottomans and then leave the HRE alone.
I think that line of thinking is surprisingly historically accurate
There weren’t many examples of that in the game’s timeline so it’s hard to say what the response would have been. But e.g. when the Mongols were demolishing the Muslim world, the pope was pretty much like “heh neat, I wonder if they’d convert.”
The whole premise of a preemptive defensive coalition is kind of a fantasy. That kind of deterrence was already sought out through regular alliances, and there was never any real life gigablob other than the Mongols- and even they were defeated by a pretty standard alliance between Hungary, Poland, and some mercenaries. Napoleon was really the first where the entire continent basically had to band together.
Yes, I've also had coalitions dissolve when I took the next army tech. So, they must be taking into account tactics, morale, and unit pips as well.
So happy to see the Dithmarschen bros being in the Great Power club
They are secretly spreading socialism in russia
Napoleon: You got this mate, Russia and Britain are not on the same side
Op: I am just Prussia in 1532, I can not do that
Napoleon: You can't, but that's on you. Give me the mouse.
No, GB and Russia are on the same side and OP is Russia
Oh. Then it will be an auto win. Every time UK and Russia allied, they won.
Except for that one time they allied with each other against other Russians
Nah, UK did not fully commit upon the whites. Neither Denikin nor Wrangel received enough entente support, as the main concern of entente was on Versailles.
The whites could not even unite themselves, Kolchak's far eastern front and Denikin's caucasian front was not connected until Trotsky consolidated Soviet control over Russian heartland.
I wouldn’t call WWI a win for the Russians lmao. They were forced into a peace and lost the war
Oh yeah, they did not make it out. But then again, technically entente won, Russia just quitted one year before final beating.
That was what Putin and his lackeys were talking about, and on this one I agree with him. Just hang in for another 12 months and American aid will be shipped over the black sea, while Ottoman empire is under unconditional surrender. All Russian claims on the strait and Slav lands for central power might be executed.
I'm Russia, GB (I PU'd them later lol) is my ally and Prussia is my march. France isn't doing too well in my game since Spain and GB cucked them early.
Russia has only two real allies, the Army and the Navy.
Shouldn’t have annexed those 2 provinces in Italy
Ah yes, the great power of Ditchmerchen!
What’s the subject type at the bottom of the image?? Looks like a boat march??
I'm playing with mods, it's a naval march. Same as a regular march but with more naval bonuses than army bonuses.
They have land ships
Finally, Victoria 2 Crisis in eu4
If you already unlocked Great wars you can push 5 maybe 6 casus bellis, great for you.
Oh, it's not 1890 yet..
R5: So I was playing as Russia and not actually giving a crap about AE, then a coalition of the other 6 great powers formed against me. (the 2 other great powers were me and my ally Britain so all 8 great powers on opposing sides of the same coalition)
I built 210k more regiments and the coalition disappeared in 5 minutes.