Coalition Question

[Cymsdale]

I'm trying to figure out how this situation happened, as it was a bit of a mood killer.

I started a game as Spain, and almost immediately France asked me into a war with GB since I was part of France's coalition. So I think "OK cool whatever" and I park some of my soldier's butt's on Gibraltar to do my part.

Meanwhile, I have all these yummy dominance targets waiting for me in Portugal, and a bunch of other units just waiting to get into the action, so I declare my own war against Portugal.

I start swarming over their provinces and killing their units. Good times, until I reach a point where I only have one fort on their coast left to take. Out of nowhere, the war shield is gone for Portugal, and the war gets "merged" into the GB/France war. At this point, I can no longer sue for peace with Portugal, since France is the coalition leader. After the last fort falls, France sues for peace with Portugal for a "concede defeat" win, which gives THEM 50 prestige, and me absolutely jack.

Is this WAD? It feels a bit unfun, and I find myself wondering why I would ever want to play a nation in a coalition that I'm not the leader of.

 

[Smitzer]

Yeah I found that too...one must be quite carefull who he follows otherwise you might loose 20K+ men and get nothing even if you do the heavy lifting.I suppose all these coalition/diplomacy tweaks will get a substential moding improvement soon enough.

 

[wilcoxchar]

Yeah, I had that happen too. I can see why they made it happen if it's WAD to avoid having duplicate wars, but it's really annoying to work your butt off invading a country then suddenly have the war disappear and you not be able to negotiate peace because of the coalition. I think they should either give you a warning that a war is going to be merged into the coalition, or at least have major powers in the coalition be able to negotiate separate peaces with other countries.

 

[Dysydent]

You can just see it that way - Napoleon ordered it to be that way. It would be good to have an option to continue the war anyway by yourself, not withdrawing from the enemy land, at the cost of making leader of your coalition angry.

 

[marat271]

Napoleon does not make mistakes, you would've obviously lost the war had he not intervened and stopped the fighting in time. You should be thankful.

 

[wilcoxchar]

On save and reload the separate war reappeared. Strange. Oh well, now Lisbon has fallen and Portugal is a satellite of Spain, hooray!

 

[Laffertytig]

same thing happened to me. the only solution seems to leave the coalition as it seems when you in a coaltion you will never have a chance to annex countries which would then mean you cant win the game.

 

[Cymsdale]

On save and reload the separate war reappeared. Strange. Oh well, now Lisbon has fallen and Portugal is a satellite of Spain, hooray!

Wha wha? That sounds like a bug to me.

 

[WankoStankins]

Happened to me too, I had occupied almost all of denmark-norway as sweden and as sieging their last fort my coalition leader britain just makes them concede...

 

[wilcoxchar]

Wha wha? That sounds like a bug to me.

I think the reload might have been a bit earlier so the separate war might not have disappeared yet. Not sure.