Alliances????

[Curdy]

Hi all,

New to EUIV and am wondering how the hell you are meant to keep alliances together?? I've played several games as France, and have to just keep restarting because I just keep getting torn to pieces.

I'm going along, quite happily, annexing my vassals and building up strength......I'll ally with Scotland, Savoy, whoever........then, all of a sudden a coalition of say, Austria, England and Burgundy decide to attack me, and all of my allies just abandon me lol!!!! This happens every time. None of my allies ever stand and fight......they just abandon me every time lol.

How can I affect things so that my allies actually stay and back me up?

Cheers.

 

[IIWW]

1st of all avoid coallitions. Don't expand so aggresively. 2nd high relations and trust help pretty much. 3rd look for stronger allies (Castille maybe? anyone who rivals Your rivals and isn't Your rival himself).

 

[AurochsAway]

Get allies who aren't Scotland and Savoy. Stronger allies deter attacks, and are probably more likely to join a larger war. Try Poland+Lithuania.

 

[Enewald]

Did you attack an innocent independent state? Why would anyone judge you for small non-harmful crimes like that, what a weird world...

 

[Krask]

Hungary is a good ally for france as you also hinder austrian expansion into that area.