Colonial wars are dumb if you play for fun . . .

[Afaslizo]

I do not really know what to do anymore:

I can't win in Europe against France but since it is a colonial war started by their colony against my colony there is not end in sight. France is the dumbest nation in the whole game as they will accept nothing I offer and I do not want to play 50 years at war. This Iron Man of course else I would have tagswitched to fix the stupidity.

I could show the other screens as well - they only would accept the dissolution of my alliance with Spain but since conceding defeat has the same value I can't offer both at the same and when I offer money:

So I have to fight eternal war because French colonies are too dumb and of course to weak to win against my colonies and I can't win against France in Europe since I played just for fun with colonies.

Is there nothing I can do but wait 50 years until France gets low motivation? And it will happen again but there is nothing I can do to prevent it. And it is not fun



I only wonder if Iron Man is only for those who just have megalomaniac plans in Europe and win every war there with Millions of Mercs and if a moderate game focused on colonization has to be restricted with fun killing like this . . .:sad:


Add: This is the game state so it become obvious that France's colonies have no chance

 

[anomalacaris]

The time modifier drops much quicker than 1 per year. Soon they will be low and they will likely accept a white peace. Just check the cross in peace negotiation screen to see how far they are in accepting white peace/concede defeat/money.

 

[Draecesstra]

length of war should be quite low after 6 years, your navy is much bigger than theres, blockade him 100% and you should have even enough ws to annex their colonys

 

[ringhloth]

The warscore is only 5%. Neither side has won a decisive victory, so the AI is holding out on actually taking anything. It's pretty reasonable when you look at the numbers.

 

[grommile]

anomalacaris and Draecesstra have good advice. In particular, the "length of war" modifier ticks at a rate of one point per month; it goes positive somewhere around the 6-7 year mark.