Ending the American Civil War

[unmerged(58421)]

How the heck do you get a "proper" end to this thing? I have taken control of every CSA province and wiped out every soldier they have. Yet, the Civil War doesn't end... I can't end it without offering a white peace (hell no) or grabbing a couple of provinces. If I make them a satellite I get everything but Richmond, which becomes an independent nation and I can't DoW on it to annex it. The CSA occasionally offers me a peace and offers up to six or seven provinces but I want them all.... WTF???

At this point, I'm running out of divisions because I lack sulphur for ammo and can't seem to buy it on the market (no sulphur -> no ammo and no ammo -> no small arms and no small arms -> no more army units) and I'm not able to use the stuff in the captured provinces.

Eventually Mexico or UK will eye me up and I won't be able to defend myself. Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi...you're my only hope.

 

[Orm]

There are a number of provinces (IIRC Richmond, Atlanta, New Orleans and Charleston) that you need to control (assuming you play vanilla Victoria or Revolutions) for the End of ACW event to fire. If you control the entire CSA you should fulfill that requirement.
But the event doesn't fire immediately. How long have you waited?

 

[Pro_Consul]

Check to make sure that not only is every CSA province captured, but that they are all captured by YOU. I had a recent game where the ACW went all wonky because the CSA got into a separate war with Spain and France over a Mexican intervention event. Spain captured New Orleans and I think got it ceded to them by the CSA in the peace deal, and because of that I couldn't get the end of the ACW event to fire even though I had every other CSA province. I considered that an event flaw so I had no compunction about editing the save and returning control of New Orleans to the CSA so I could take it from them and trigger the event.

 

[unmerged(58421)]

Thanks for the quick replies. The CSA was only at war with me, they didn't get involved in the Mexican Intervention conflict. So, actually, I do hold every single CSA province. I've held all of the major ones since late 1865 or early 1866. It is now 1868, I have 100% war score and the CSA has no standing army at all. However, they are gaining "rebel" units occasionally and my units are dwindling...I'm down to four or five units left and can't build anymore until I get some sulphur.

Anyone know the event code (so I don't have to go looking for it) so I can just fire the event myself? I'm losing valuable time waiting for this so that I can retool and gear up for slapping Mexico.

 

[ulrichomega]

Are you buying it off the world market? By that point in the game, the materials needed to make units might be expensive, but it should be there.

The only reason I can think of that no peace is occurring is that the peace event for them fired, but they refused. I am unfamiliar with the event chain myself, so this is probably erroneous.

 

[Orm]

The event in vanilla Revolutions has id 14231, but it's a CSA event.

 

[unmerged(131989)]

Press F12 and type in: "event 14231 csa"

 

[RELee]

Lee has opted for guerrilla warfare. Your Yankee life is now a horror story of epic proportions.

 

[byzantium43]

After destroying the major CSA armies and capturing a few regions including richmond an event should pop up saying you've won the war.

 

[Orm]

After destroying the major CSA armies and capturing a few regions including richmond an event should pop up saying you've won the war.

There is no trigger in the event that has to do with destroying the armies.

 

[unmerged(16676)]

If it won't fire, take all the Confederate provinces but richmond in a peace deal, wait five years, break your alliance with them and release them, attack and annex.

 

[Talquin]

but don't you get a large amount of prestige and other bonuses with the event?

 

[unmerged(16676)]

You sure do, but you could always give yourself 500 prestige from the cheat code to simulate it.

 

[unmerged(136537)]

Cheating to simulate events just seems like...cheating to me. Sure would be nice if the events fired as they were supposed to.