Improvement suggestion for war declaration or ledger functionality

[Sarvik]

The new Declare War dialog box is a lot better than before, with the possibility to consider enemies as co-belligerent or not. Now it is much more evident who is going to be on the enemy side. However, I would like to take this improvement one step further.

Before declaring a war, I nearly always perform a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats). For that I need information on amount of infantry/cavalry/artillery/heavy ships/light ships/galley/transports, manpower, war exhaustion, military and diplomatic technology levels and sometimes even prestige, income and treasury for each country involved. Now I have to use the ledger and copy these values into Excel to perform the analysis.

It would be very nice either

1) to see this information on the Declare War dialog (summed values for both sides are enough, perhaps possibility to disable for multiplayer campaigns)

or

2) to export ledger tables into a text file/Excel.

Solution 2 might have other applications, too.

 

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Now I have to use the ledger and copy these values into Excel to perform the analysis.

You perform an analysis in a spreadsheet before every declaration of war? :blink:

It's easy enough to look up the most important information such as manpower, income, mil tech level. If you need to perform in depth analyses, then perhaps you're over-thinking the game. Some randomness and risk is what it's all about. I find deterministic gameplay extremely tedious.