[1.2.1](20fe) My rival declared war on my protectorate and I am unable to join the war

[Jienz]

I refuse to believe that this is the intended meaning of "protectorate" as I am completely unable to protect them. The issue is possibly related to me being in a federation but not being the president at the moment.

I'm using the arachnoid content pack (if that could possibly be related).

No mods.

To reproduce:
1) load up the enclosed save file.
2) verify that the player's rival is at war with the player's protectorate.
3) attempt to join the war.
4) fail and be ashamed that you promised them nice people you would protect them.

 

[ForzaA]

Thank you for your report.

Would you happen to have a save from (shortly) before war was declared?

 

[Jienz]

This is the closest I have before war.

 

[ForzaA]

Thank you for that save. Sadly, no war was declared, so it wasn't as helpful as I had hoped. Will continue to investigate.

 

[Jienz]

I'll see if I can set more frequent autosaves, now that I know the before picture is important as well. Thanks and happy hunting!

 

[LordPavel]

Most of the times, that happens because the protectorate declare war against the rival (same with Tributarate), and they are only garanties, so they cannot ask you to come in this offensive wars. And there is a bug, when a protectorate attack, he cannot win the wars because his wars is a ''liberation war''.

Are you really sure it is your rival attack your protectorate ?