I would love the above feature be disabled. I put all of my sphered countries into my alliance in order to protect them from aggression and keep tabs on their foreign adventures. However, I don't always want my allies to immediately jump into a war with me - sometimes their presence impedes the war effort instead of helping (as many have mentioned).
To give an example I'll take my current game as Italy. I unified Italy in 1853, beating Austria and its allies the NGF and the Ottomans. After unification I quickly took two states from Greece (beating the Russians in the process who marched thousands of troops through Austria only to have them destroyed in northern Italy). Prior to unification I had relations with France at 200; I however neglected our relations in the immediate aftermath of unification and did not enact Cavour's Diplomacy, which would have given France the states of Provence and Savoie (on a separate note, shouldn't this decision be disabled after the Avanti Italia decision? I already have Lombardy and don't need cores from the decision; the only benefit is the large infamy reduction).
Long story short, France declared war on me. I planned to have my troops sit in our border provinces (Annecy, Turin, and Nice - where I had level 1 forts) and bleed the French army. However, after the declaration of war the game immediately called my allies, one of whom is Switzerland. By bringing a very weak Switzerland (they have a grand total of two brigades) to the war I doubled the amount of territory I needed to defend. I would prefer to have fought the war on my own, forcing the French into defensive battles in my favor. I will still likely win but imagine the war will take a much larger toll on my economy and soldiers than necessary. I would prefer that when facing a defensive war I be given the choice to "Call all allies" or "Not right now." Thereafter I can choose to call allies one by one as necessary.
To give an example I'll take my current game as Italy. I unified Italy in 1853, beating Austria and its allies the NGF and the Ottomans. After unification I quickly took two states from Greece (beating the Russians in the process who marched thousands of troops through Austria only to have them destroyed in northern Italy). Prior to unification I had relations with France at 200; I however neglected our relations in the immediate aftermath of unification and did not enact Cavour's Diplomacy, which would have given France the states of Provence and Savoie (on a separate note, shouldn't this decision be disabled after the Avanti Italia decision? I already have Lombardy and don't need cores from the decision; the only benefit is the large infamy reduction).
Long story short, France declared war on me. I planned to have my troops sit in our border provinces (Annecy, Turin, and Nice - where I had level 1 forts) and bleed the French army. However, after the declaration of war the game immediately called my allies, one of whom is Switzerland. By bringing a very weak Switzerland (they have a grand total of two brigades) to the war I doubled the amount of territory I needed to defend. I would prefer to have fought the war on my own, forcing the French into defensive battles in my favor. I will still likely win but imagine the war will take a much larger toll on my economy and soldiers than necessary. I would prefer that when facing a defensive war I be given the choice to "Call all allies" or "Not right now." Thereafter I can choose to call allies one by one as necessary.
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