Coalition but no Coalition War?

[Alyosha]

I recently declared war against the Ottomans, who among others have Aden as an ally. About a month before I could declare war Aden formed a coalition against me but no other states joined. I've almost fully occupied Aden and want to make peace, but the interface indicates I cannot make a separate peace with them because "a member of a coalition may never make a separate peace." Is this WAD? The war is not a coalition war and Aden is the head and whole extent of a coalition.

 

[Meglok]

I recently declared war against the Ottomans, who among others have Aden as an ally. About a month before I could declare war Aden formed a coalition against me but no other states joined. I've almost fully occupied Aden and want to make peace, but the interface indicates I cannot make a separate peace with them because "a member of a coalition may never make a separate peace." Is this WAD? The war is not a coalition war and Aden is the head and whole extent of a coalition.

You can only make peace with who you declared war on because Aden is a coalition member against you. Which means you can't separate peace them out. You can only peace out the Ottomans.

The number of coalition members against you doesn't matter, you can't separate peace out a coalition member. You got caught by an edge case in the rules, an ally called into a defensive war BUT who is also a coalition member vs you. Not sure if this is WAD or even working properly, but that is what is happening.

 

[Alyosha]

You can only make peace with who you declared war on because Aden is a coalition member against you. Which means you can't separate peace them out. You can only peace out the Ottomans.

The number of coalition members against you doesn't matter, you can't separate peace out a coalition member. You got caught by an edge case in the rules, an ally called into a defensive war BUT who is also a coalition member vs you. Not sure if this is WAD or even working properly, but that is what is happening.

Indeed. Also annoying was that I couldn’t mark Aden as a co-belligerent (I would take some of their territory in peace but I’m not going to incur the extra AE).

Not the biggest deal certainly - it does give the Adenese some brearhing space from my conquests...

 

[O-Ren Ishii]

Not entirely relevant, but in my current run as Mughals, AI (GB) has some 260k of mercs, which is double his FL. Because of that, AI is over 40k in debt.
Me, on the other hand - I never hired a single company, because they are pretty much useless.

 

[Battlex]

Not entirely relevant, but in my current run as Mughals, AI (GB) has some 260k of mercs, which is double his FL. Because of that, AI is over 40k in debt.
Me, on the other hand - I never hired a single company, because they are pretty much useless.

They're useful for long term so you can break even on hiring cost, sell them as condo between wars, or be more hyper aggressive with your wars to make full use of them

 

[O-Ren Ishii]

Damn it, I had this and several other threads and I left this comment here instead in one regarding mercs ‍

 

[Battlex]

Damn it, I had this and several other threads and I left this comment here instead in one regarding mercs ‍

Can you link the thread and I'll move my post there

 

[O-Ren Ishii]

Can you link the thread and I'll move my post there

Have you ever hired a mercenary company other than the free company?

I just found myself using the free company, sort of militia, a couple of times at the start of the game. The other units were too expensive! And hiring mercenaries decreses army professionalism. That's why I never use them. What about you?

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