Independence factions seem to be ruining invasions

[Jia Xu]

So I tried an invasion of Italy against the Holy Roman Empire. Everything was going well until Matilda's independence faction sent off an ultimatum to the emperor which he accepted, causing most of Italy to leave the HRE and ruin my invasion in the process. Because they're not in the HRE anymore, I wasn't at war with them. All of their captured holdings went free and my invasion was then limited to a few Italian duchies that weren't part of the independence faction.

If my CB targets Italy and they emperor lets them go, I should automatically be at war with the newly independent members of the faction too. Considering that they got away with this because the emperor was desperate after I obliterated his armies, it almost makes fighting the enemy during invasions counter productive. An alternative solution would be to make it so lords who have all of their settlements occupied don't contribute any value to faction power. It's pretty silly that Matilda was issuing threats with most of her lands occupied by me.

 

[Iron Chariots]

This happened to me when I invaded England as Brittany, I lost a significant chunk of the Kingdom this way. Quite annoying and I hope they fix it.

 

[Ordo Impavidus]

The game is not broken, ladies and gentlemen.

It is behaving as coded.

The error is in making the invasion in the first place. In a popularity simulation game, battle is not the best answer.

This game, for me, will remain uninstalled because it is annoyingly humorous at best.

 

[Jeltz]

Sounds like an unintentional behavior to me. My intuition says that the newly independent countries should all automatically be at war with you in separate conquests wars if they have any fo their continues in the invaded dejure kingdom. Maybe this does even qualify as a bug and should be reported in the bugs forum.

 

[Iron Chariots]

The game is not broken, ladies and gentlemen.

It is behaving as coded.

The error is in making the invasion in the first place. In a popularity simulation game, battle is not the best answer.

This game, for me, will remain uninstalled because it is annoyingly humorous at best.

Invasions are fine, however I do think they should auto force victory at 100% whether the attacker wants to or not (that way you can't just take all the counties and have to choose carefully which ones you actually want).

 

[Dartheal]

Invasions are fine, however I do think they should auto force victory at 100% whether the attacker wants to or not (that way you can't just take all the counties and have to choose carefully which ones you actually want).

That would be a double-edged sword as the AI tends to act as a player would when invading, which is to say they assault the same county until it's all theirs. Not to mention, the Mongols would be even harder to fight if you're an uber empire as you won't be able to get your men where they need to be before they reach 100 percent.

 

[Zireael]

Invasions are fine, however I do think they should auto force victory at 100% whether the attacker wants to or not (that way you can't just take all the counties and have to choose carefully which ones you actually want).

A good idea.

 

[Malebranche]

I remember loosing occupied land in England as Ireland during an invasion when serveral counties got inherited into Norway.