colonial war

[unmerged(6836)]

all right...dose anybody know if it is possible for a civilised nation to declare colonial war on another civilised nation? because im not able to declare colonail war against britan...(they have one clamie in a colony where i have 5 and i cant claim the colony shouldn´t i be able to do so? .....)

can anybody explain to me how to get out of this mess?

 

[Darkrenown]

Do you have any claimed colonies? If not, you can't.

 

[Memnon]

Ok, first of all, yes, a civilized country can declare colonial war on another civilized country. When engaging in that kind of war, only states that do not have "statehood" in your country will be eligible for invasion. (If you click on the list of states, the eligible ones will have their names greyed out.)

Second, to do so, I'm pretty sure you can't already be involved in another war. Holding your mouse over the blacked-out "declare colobial war" button ought to give you the reason you can't.

Third, just because you have all but one of the claims in a colony doesn't mean you can claim it. You either have to personally own all the claims--all of them. Or, you can one of each of the four types, and as long as all the other provinces have been filled up by someone--anyone, but they must have been filled by--then you can claim the whole thing.

PS. I wouldn't recommend a colonial war against the UK, though. It's probably a better idea to build up relations and trade them something for the claim, if you want it that badly.

 

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Second, to do so, I'm pretty sure you can't already be involved in another war. Holding your mouse over the blacked-out "declare colobial war" button ought to give you the reason you can't.

I believe this is wrong... you can declare other wars, both regular and colonial ones while being in a colonial war. However, you can not declare other wars, even colonial ones, if you already are in a regular war.

 

[Memnon]

I believe this is wrong... you can declare other wars, both regular and colonial ones while being in a colonial war. However, you can not declare other wars, even colonial ones, if you already are in a regular war.

You're right, but that's what I meant. I didn't say "another colonial war" now did I? ...

...though I probably should have made that clear. Thanks for the correction, Leiv.

 

[unmerged(24512)]

ooops... o

I somehow thought you said "I'm pretty sure you can already be involved in another war"

My bad

 

[Mustard]

Two questions:
1. How can you tell if another country's territory is a state or a colony?
2. This is more of a complaint, but if another country declares a colonial war on you why can't you "upgrade" that to a regular war? Because taking an opponents main cultured provinces seems to be the only way to make them accept peace (at least in my experience).

 

[Darkrenown]

1. You can't
2. That would be good in some cases.