Heir to the Throne - Casus Belli Guide

[Johan]

Since casus belli is such a core concept to the game, Doomdark wrote a document on which different ones there is and how it works.

 

[Johan]

Wow, looks like there will be a tlot of wrs in HTTT then , which i basically dont like that much, but at least it are wars WITH a cause...can see that loan CB exploited a lot though.

Well.. what use is a cb if you can't get anything out of the war without enormous infamy?

 

[Darkrenown]

For what it's worth I haven't seen any stupidly large wars caused by the alliance CBs yet.

 

[Darkrenown]

This looks really interesting. Of course I hope that taking provinces etc. without the proper CB will give much more infamy now, otherwise the whole system will be kinda meaningless.

Most of the new CB´s look cool, especially the colonial ones

I do however think that the Discovered spy can cause many problems. While the cancelled loan and others might be exploitet by the player, he can still chose not to do so. The discovered spy however requires that the AI thinks ALOT about using spies....I hope it has become better at this.
Maybe it should be more like a certain % chance of giving a CB each time a spy is discovered? And maybe also only for certain missions? (the more powerfull ones)

Provinces taken when the CB doesn't allow it cost 4 BB each. So if you feel like "exploiting" the spy CB go right ahead, but enjoy the BB wars

Since you're asking this I guess you haven't seen Brother Bean's AAR? If not go read it, it answers a lot of questions and it's a good read too.

 

[Darkrenown]

How could 75 ducats possibly be worth 14% I have no idea, but I think its ridiculous. UNLESS they were smart about it and it uses some sort of scaling algorithm.

They were smart about it.

 

[Doomdark]

That's great news! Could you please tell us how it works? Thanks in advance

It is based on the normal monthly income of the giver. That is, the income they would have if none of their provinces were occupied, etc.