First was france demanding the rhineland, I beat them, and russia and the uk with the help of Austria and anexed Alsace Loraine
but you want to be able to curb stomp who you want?
but you dont want them to be 'bro im making this alliance with you ive got your back!'No, I dont want allies to be like, 'im making this alliance so you will help me but I have no intentions, at all, of helping you'
About alliance...
Many players seem to have huge problem with the system...Sure, its not perfect and there are probably some tweaks to do.
But most players go berzerk on the first years of the game and stop when they close to 25 BB, and then navigate the whole game between 15 and 25...
And now, they cant find any reliable ally, everyone drop alliance as soon as possible etc...
Try a low infamy game like 15 at most, if possible less than 10 and see the difference...and at more you will have only 1 or 2 states less than the high infamy guy, so its not that it matters in the long run.
Some allies will still abandon you (after all they play for their country, not for yours), but most will follow you, even on the offensive...
Well, at the start of game, Ottomans are GP and they have decent army...so yeah, they are interesting allies to have for other AIs.
I agree the whole religion thing should account for something, but religion seems more flavour than anything else in victoria.
But see how fast it changes when they drop GP status, lose most of their armies and become a noone...
Now, Greece has what...well, not a GP, pityfull army, no sharing border with anyone but Ottos...not so interesting for other countries...
You already have Great Britain as ally, Russia can intervene in your favor too (they are friendly if i remember...not sure)...Now, if you dont have a great army, why any other AI would want to ally you, what for ?...how can you help them in their war, why would they help a GB sphere ?
Small countries are hard to play for that reason...im sure they were hard to manage IRL for the exact same reason...you depend on other s armies to defend yourselves but noone care.
The only reason that the Ottomans would have that many alliances is if the game was discriminating against me, the player. No matter what anyone says to the contrary, this game has made me very curious on whether or not that is true.
Same. All of those allies with the Ottomans I was talking about? I've worked myself up to 200 relations with them gradually over the course of the game. The game doesn't give a hoot. You're not AI!It sure feels like it to me .... even with 0 infamy and +200 rleations, I can't even get an audience ... with even a maybe or unlikely. It's nearly always impossible.
Is armour an auxillary unit like artillery or can it be used on its own (i.e. all armour armies)?