Allies making peace on my behalf even though I'm the war leader

[jsl]

So I'm playing as Finland and started a war of independency vs Sweden. I then made an alliance with Denmark and sent them a Call to arms which they accepted.

Now we have destroyed Sweden's armies and occupied most of their provinces. Just when I was in the process of occupying the last remaining provinces they still have, I got told that Denmark have offered White Peace to Sweden, which Sweden has accepted. This led to my war being settled aswell. Now this is absolutely ridiculous for the following reasons:

1) Why on EARTH would Denmark want to offer a White Peace when Sweden is practically beaten completely (and none of their allies form a threat against us)
2) I have beaten Sweden (with the help of my allies), and now I don't even get the independency? This is highly illogical, just makes no sense whatsoever. I mean I know that it technically happens because of the White Peace, but that just makes 1) more ridiculous.
3) I am the war leader. It says (before they made the peace): "Finland is the war leader and can negotiate for the whole alliance". It does NOT say that for Denmark. So why can Denmark - apparently - negotiate for the whole alliance aswell? Is that text just meaningless, seeing as anyone can do it anyway? Or is this merely a game-breaking BUG? I mean it certainly breaks my current game with Finland.

Screeenshots included:

Here it says I am the war leader etc:

Yet this is what happens, ruining this save game entirely:

 

[Wardok]

Id call that a bug. that should deffinetly not happen.

 

[jsl]

I even tried to dissolve the alliance with Denmark before the White Peace happens, but it still happened. Sigh. I guess I can't continue this save game then. When can we except the next patch?

 

[TheBloke]

I even tried to dissolve the alliance with Denmark before the White Peace happens, but it still happened. Sigh. I guess I can't continue this save game then. When can we except the next patch?

Mid January.

Make sure you go raise this in the Bug Reports forum, if you haven't already. If you have a savegame during the war, attach that too (even if it's Ironman.)

 

[zodium]

I even tried to dissolve the alliance with Denmark before the White Peace happens, but it still happened. Sigh. I guess I can't continue this save game then. When can we except the next patch?

If it's not ironman, you could tag switch to Denmark ("tag DAN", no quotes), send the diplomats to improve relations somewhere far away, then tag switch back to your original country. Tag switching by console disables the AI for 12 game months, so you can just repeat the process every 11 months to ensure they don't do this.

 

[jsl]

If it's not ironman, you could tag switch to Denmark ("tag DAN", no quotes), send the diplomats to improve relations somewhere far away, then tag switch back to your original country. Tag switching by console disables the AI for 12 game months, so you can just repeat the process every 11 months to ensure they don't do this.

Thanks for the tip, I'll try it later.

I have posted this at the Bugforums with the save game file: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...e-on-my-behalf-even-though-I-m-the-war-leader

 

[Kyle10]

This happened to me as well when I was playing as Holland yesterday. I allied France right after I DOW'd Burgundy and called them in a month later. After we had beaten BUR, France offered a white peace and the war ended even though I was the war leader. I don't have a save though because I just reloaded the last autosave and offered a peace before France.

 

[Duke Von Hannover]

This also happened today in a MP campaign ironically with a dev present. Sweden was warring Denmark and hansa was in the war as a minor partner hands obviously went to leave out first so Sweden could do his demands separate and it peaced the warleader out as well...

 

[TheBloke]

Kyle and levithan, what CB was used in your cases? We know OP's was Independence from PU.

Just trying to see if theres any common factor we might be able to spot.

 

[Kyle10]

Independence. I started the game as Burgundy and selected "Play as the released vassal" when I released Holland.

 

[Anthropoid]

I just had one like this too (sort of). Denmark was my ally, I was France year was 1505. Bohemian Emperor DoWed them for Friesland. They CTAed me, and I needed the mil trad. I was kicking Bohemia's butt, and decided "Ah what the heck!" Might as well make use of the Mercenary Captain Glut event I got a year or so ago. So I took a couple loans and recruited 20 or 25 mercs. Just as my mercs are getting from France to Bohemia, we've got the overall WS to about 65% and Denmark accepts peace. I was 1st place in score so I was definitely the warleader, though I didn't declare the war.

 

[TheBloke]

So there's a definite pattern related to being a junior partner / independence war. I think this is the bug.

Anthropoid, I don't think being first in score guarantees war leader. And Some CBs don't let it change. Did you get a popup saying you had taken over leadership in the war? I wouldn't rush to attribute this to the same cause based on what we know so far.

 

[Ultima_Ratio]

It's a glitch associated with independence wars. Some things to notice:

- The allied AI will always peace out immediately if you reach 100 warscore (you can still get a peace first, you just need to be fast)
- The AI will seek to peace out once their war enthusiasm is less than their individual warscore against the target, so keep this in mind when trying to maximize your benefit for the war

In your case, Denmark's score against Sweden was probably 0 (as allies only get WS from occupying or blockading), and you can see in the screenshot that their war enthusiasm was low (less than 0), meaning that they can only white peace out.