Can't declare war on former vassal

[dcleve]

I have an odd glitch in DW 5.2

Playing as Oriot/Mughals

I ahve kept getting a conquest mission on a vassal's territory. I declined 3 times, then finally decided to go for it -- take the province, then re-vassalize.

Broke alliance, broke passage rights, then released the vassal. But DOW is not an option -- it says I must break alliance first.

I have sent insults, tried offering to ally (declined), and done multiple save/restarts.

I just tried DOWing one of their allies -- but they stayed out of the war.

A 5 province vassal is now neutral to me, and keeps funding revolts, and I cannot complete my mission. :-(

 

[cacra]

Ive never played much as a horde before, so unless there is a weird mechanic i dont know about, you have the phantom alliance bug I should think. You need to hunt around in the save file and delete the alliance manually

 

[dcleve]

Opened save file in notepad -- it is a mess! I have scrolled up and down for 15 minutes through it and can't figure out how it is organized. Where should I look?

 

[Richard-monagha]

I've had this same problem before but not on my vassals or as a horde. I had a conquest CB on my ally and wanted to attack. I ended the alliance/access ect and the declare war option was greyed out. was unable to attack them even when i reloaded my game and did it again

 

[cywang86]

Opened save file in notepad -- it is a mess! I have scrolled up and down for 15 minutes through it and can't figure out how it is organized. Where should I look?

Here's an example, for an existing alliance
alliance=
{
first="ALG"
second="CND"
start_date="1399.10.16"
}
Delete all that, and see if that fixes it. As for nation abbreviations, common/countries.txt

In fact, find everything that has
first="YOU"
second ="HIM"
and vice versa and see if you need to get rid of them all.

 

[dcleve]

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately it did not work.

I have checked, and I have these ghost alliances with Gondwana, Taunga, and Champa. I have never had Taunga or Champa as vassals, although Champa was an ally for a time..

Searched for first="MUG", and alliances with each of these, no dice. Likewise with second="MUG".

Any other suggestions?

 

[cywang86]

Uhhh
vassal=
{
id="KSH"?

If you want to, compress it into zip or rar and upload it here, and we'll see if we can find it. Though the chance is kinda slim.

 

[dcleve]

none of them show up under a vassal= search either. :-(

Thanks for the offer, don't want to take you up on it though. It is my problem, I just wanted clues for what to look for.

I found a reference to this problem in the 5.2 final checkout thread, and the fellow sufferer already uploaded a file there. Nobody figured out what it was there either.

 

[camppa]

You need to look for the phantom war that is causing the phantom alliance. Try searching for

active_war=

then "find next" your country tag a few times until you hopefully see a war that shouldn't be there.