Ignoring alliances and battles everything.

[Secuter]

So, how to begin. Is everybody just bloodthirsty and have ample reserves to squander away on every battle?

At least it seems so. I happened to siege some province in under which were under Leónese control. León who were fighting a bunch of other wars. Among those wars a defensive holywar. Well, that's just in my favor I thought. Opening up a whole new front. Well, suddenly I see the papacy moving troops in. They aren't allied to my enemy, thus not a thread to me.. Well that's just until they tag along to a Leónese army after that they are more than happy to slaughter pretty much anything.

This also goes for sieges. Some enemy ally who aren't an enemy of me, but just happen to help my enemy out in some other war would all of a sudden begin to help them siege me down. Me, who aren't their enemy.

I should only battle those who are in the "war overview"!

 

[Dr Gonzo]

Allies who are attached will fight all enemies whether they're actually in the same war or not. It's WAD and personally I like it this way. While it's not a perfect system I think I'd get more pissed off if my allies who were joined up with me stood there and did nothing. While the game's been set up this way since at least Old Gods I actually think it makes lot of sense with the new permanent alliances (less so before).

 

[Secuter]

Allies who are attached will fight all enemies whether they're actually in the same war or not. It's WAD and personally I like it this way. While it's not a perfect system I think I'd get more pissed off if my allies who were joined up with me stood there and did nothing. While the game's been set up this way since at least Old Gods I actually think it makes lot of sense with the new permanent alliances (less so before).

Well, it seems strange in my opinion. For instance, say the enemy ally is a close friend of mine. Now, we are not allied, but he still wants to kill my troops like they were his most notorious ally. This makes it very unpredictable how many troops you will fight. My enemy is allied to HRE in some other war? But the HRE doesn't join when I attack him, lucky me. Now the HRE troops attach to help my enemy fight some Jihad, well, great. Those muslims wanted some of what is mine anyway. Oh, the HRE and the rest of merry band comes my way, and all of sudden shit load of troops is squashing my sorry army.
I don't like the system at all. I can understand that allies will join (obviously), but yeah, neutral troops are neutral. They don't fight my troops.