MA and strategic interests - naw... not for us!

[ErikHeinrichs]

I can assure you that Brandenburg and Bohemia, in a war with Teutonic order, does have a strategic interest in me giving them military access through my pretty Polish lands but for some reason they do not like the idea. There really should be more imformation regarding these kind of things instead of an arbitrary "here is -1000 malus and ponder why". On the other hand Teutonic order is more than willing to get access from me.

 

[Schmoekoeksklok]

They can take Neumark just fine without going after the rest of the Teutonic Order, which takes longer, but saves a lot of manpower. So no, they really don't need access. Besides, you haven't scrolled down on that screenshot, so for all we know they already have access to Pomerania.

 

[hwoosh]

If the AI wants MA, it will ask you. If you are an ally, it will always accept. I suspect the reason the AI will rarely/never accept outside of those circumstances is twofold: so the player can’t spam +10 relations with every nation on the globe, and to prevent the AI from wasting a diprel slot.

 

[passengerpigeon]

Brandenburg is hostile to you, which means they might eventually want to declare war on you. Since military access will give them a penalty for declaring war, they'll refuse it, but they don't want to say "because we're considering declaring war on you" in the tooltip. Strategic interests generally means "I am considering war or worried that you're considering war."

 

[ErikHeinrichs]

They can take Neumark just fine without going after the rest of the Teutonic Order, which takes longer, but saves a lot of manpower. So no, they really don't need access. Besides, you haven't scrolled down on that screenshot, so for all we know they already have access to Pomerania.

This is the AI fighting inbetween themselfs... no such thing as "saving manpower" exists for the AI
Brandenburg didn't have access through Pomerania until an year after this screenshot.

 

[LarryLeica]

Brandenburg is hostile to you, which means they might eventually want to declare war on you. Since military access will give them a penalty for declaring war, they'll refuse it, but they don't want to say "because we're considering declaring war on you" in the tooltip. Strategic interests generally means "I am considering war or worried that you're considering war."

In which case why not get the access and then cancel it when the time comes to put the underpants on over the trousers? The mechanic exists, the player does it all the time...