I fabricated a claim to a land nearby, got my army ready to attack, only to discover it won't let me because I raised an army? I don't understand!
They want to prevent zergs. If you stack your 10k troops next an enemy province then declare war. You will easily wipe out their 500 or 600 troops of that province without giving them chance to muster with their other troops.
On the side note, you can declare war with mercenaries already on the boarder of the target. I usually do that as blitzkrieg tactic. Start war, use my 4k mercenries to wipe out their small stacks before they group up. While my own levies are grouping up and heading to war
I fabricated a claim to a land nearby, got my army ready to attack, only to discover it won't let me because I raised an army? I don't understand!
OK - This makes sense. A gameplay feature!
On another matter... in my first war, I have marched my army into a province, taken over all the cities, and have an army sitting there effectively unchallenged. At the bottom right hand of the screen I see "Danish claim on Lubeck war" 100%.
Why is the province not mine? Why does the other chap still seem to be in charge?
I look on the diplomacy tab, and it won't let me enforce my demands either... What do I have to do to be able to do that?
You have to offer peace first and demand that your claims be enforced, clicking on that little icon will bring up a window showing the progress of the war. From there you can choose to offer peace. Make sure you choose the option to Enforce Demands when you do. As a side note you will only be able to claim titles that are part of your Casus Belli. If you have occupied the entire enemy realm but you only went to war over one county, you will only be able to demand that county.
Thanks. Fiddling around with things I discovered that... Seems that despite destroying his entire army, and occupying his towns, I still can't enforce my claim... ah well, I guess this game is going to take some time for me to work out!
It will surprise you sometimes too. As I was in a war with Ostergotland for Oland, the ruler of Ostergotland before I had even taken his last barony of the first province I attacked put up a peace proposal and gave me Oland....that NEVER happened in CK1 as you always pretty much had to take every province owned by those rulers to just get one.
You must raise your army after you declared war.
It was implemented to prevent the OLD EXPLOIT of CK1 whereby players would take their armies right up to or next to the province they were going to invade and then declare war thus not giving their enemy/opponent (MP) enough time to react. An unfair advantage sotospeak.
Now players continue to EXPLOIT it by using MERCS since mercs don't count as your armies on the map. Hopefully Paradox will see this and remedy that and NERF it in a patch.
It was implemented to prevent the OLD EXPLOIT of CK1 whereby players would take their armies right up to or next to the province they were going to invade and then declare war thus not giving their enemy/opponent (MP) enough time to react. An unfair advantage sotospeak.
Now players continue to EXPLOIT it by using MERCS since mercs don't count as your armies on the map. Hopefully Paradox will see this and remedy that and NERF it in a patch.
It was implemented to prevent the OLD EXPLOIT of CK1 whereby players would take their armies right up to or next to the province they were going to invade and then declare war thus not giving their enemy/opponent (MP) enough time to react. An unfair advantage sotospeak.
Now players continue to EXPLOIT it by using MERCS since mercs don't count as your armies on the map. Hopefully Paradox will see this and remedy that and NERF it in a patch.