As Spain forced a PU with France. Now what? France idle?

[Jorous]

As in the Title. France was ruled by a Trastemere and after a huge fight with austria he was down to 30k troops and no manpower and his king died without an heir. I just formed spain and my tradeempire makes money flow in like never before in this game.

I canceled alliance and claimed throne, declared war and forced a PU with them.

now, 5 years later france is back to full power, has 120k troops in france, (I have only 30k in spain) relation is at 140 and going up. but still they have the little "hate" (flame symbol) indicator. I declared war on a province with a lot of allies in italy and thought. Well... france will take care of those.

But, they just stand in their shinny blue country and don't move an inch.

Is this WAD?

I am at war with england, switzerland, rest of aragon, papal state, milan and some italy minors.

Neither i nor france have direct neighbours involved. They would need to ask for Military access. But it seems they are not doing it.

Why? Because they hate me?

 

[Pornek]

No its a bug. I have it in my current game aswell - AI just freezes randomly. Eg. PLC has a 20k stack in Munich for ~50 years now.
Im currently integrating my PUs because they are so unreliable, might aswell move the troops myself.

 

[Illianor123]

Reloading the save should fix it.

 

[Ricox]

Restart the game, almost always fixes it (I've had one instance when it did not work - the AI of the country still did not merge or move any of its 1 000 men units scattered around the country and was idle, after the restart). It (military AI suddenly stopping) happens a lot, to be honest, quite annoying.

 

[Jorous]

I''ll test it this afternoon.

But he was moving his small 1k stacks to form the 30k stacks.

It was pretty scarry when he created 40 regiments in all provinces and moved them at the same time.

But he hasn't moved a bit in this war.

 

[gaius valerius]

Had it as well with allies and PU's, it's a bug thing.

 

[lolada]

This might be connected with subject settings, I had similar problem with Poland and PU Lithuania, try to set subject tactics to aggressive and see if they start moving. Reload helps too.

 

[Jorous]

I don't have art of war. Only 1.8. So no setting for me or am i wrong here?

Reloaded the game yesterday.
France didn't activly ask for military access in this game. He had to ask savoy to enter milan or switzerland, two of my enemies, but he didn't.

First i thought nothing has changed and i started to wage this war on my own. But than i got a message that one of my colonies was occupied by england. And i saw, that france used his 6 transport ships. He had landed nearly 20 k troops with his ships in canada and attacked englands colonies and england recaptured one of these.

Than, after i landed an initial assault on english soil and after i created a bridgehead, he landed another 40k in england with his 6 ship fleet.

In the italian theather he launched several unsuccessfull 6k attacks on a 30k switzerland/milan stack through naval assault...

Somehow this still doesn't feel right. Either he should build more ships or should ask for mil access.

 

[Illianor123]

Do the nations not like him an so won't grant access?

 

[Jorous]

hmm, good point. will check this later... thanks.

 

[Autoclave]

it happens with colonial nations as well. They get unresponsive, even when the enemy is sieging their territory.
I my case i also had privillegia revoked with 46 HRE vassals. I thought that was the reason.