Colonial War: Cannot take any province?!

[Bombax1864]

Hi guys

I am playing IN.
In my current game, I play as Genoa. I moved my capital to NA and control all of the US and Mexico. The only other power in NA is Great Britain. For about 10 years or so, we are at war. I occupied all their provinces in NA and middle America and all their Caribbean Islands. in total it is 35 provinces. The war score is 32% in my favor. Great Britain has cores on almost all these provinces. And I have been holding them for years.
However, the war exhaustion of Great Britain does simply not go up. It always stays between 6 and 8 and they are not willing to sign peace, although I control those provinces for years!

Is the only way to beat them to actually conquer their mainland??

Best

 

[Sudertum]

Have not played IN for ages but i assume GB has still a larger fleet, as AI countries in EU3 see barely a point to give up then. Try crushing their fleet or take the capital is my thought. Maybe a blockade of their ports might be enough already...

 

[Kovax]

If you think that's bad, I had one game where Aquileia got in a war again Austria and myself. Austria and I each occupied 2 provinces (100% war score), and they would not settle for ANY terms beyond White Peace as long as they still had a fleet. Since neither Austria (landlocked) nor myself (Hungary, with a Naval Force Limit of 2) had anywhere near enough ships to take them on, it dragged out for years until I amassed enough cash to build a large fleet and maintain it just long enough to break Aquileia's fleet, at which point they submitted to all terms up to 100% war score.

The UK will almost inevitably require occupying at least a few provinces on their home island, and possibly reducing their fleet a little as well....I've already had to occupy 100% of their home island and destroy one or two fleets to force a PU in one game. Good luck.