Paradox: Please remove Shattered Retreat and Coalitions

[TheKingofWinter]

Adding shattered retreat was a good decision. Before that you won one battle, chased the weakened army one province further and wiped them to win the whole war. While the system can be improved, shattered retreat allowed wars to not be decided by one single battle which might be realistic in certain circumstances, but not fun while playing a game.

unless you find the new system of making each war last forever to be the most frustrating thing there is.

 

[ninoallen]

been playing Victoria 2 ... AMAZING GAME

 

[NathanD77]

They will simply ignore the problem and watch the player base dwindle . The lack of acknowledgement to the discontent is telling and more than a little infuriating as they change gameplay this late in a title's life . Not everything has to be EU .

 

[erhpdm]

To be honest, coalitions aren't all that bad... I simply think they pop out way too often. They should only form if you fight several wars in a row, having a continent wide coalition against you after taking a simple duchy is overdoing it.

Shattered retreat is destroys the pace of wars, but eh, I can live it.

The worst thing in the game so far for me are the rebellions to increase council authority. You can defeat all of your vassals 12 times in a row, and they can all love you, but they will always form that faction a month or so after their defeat if you release them, which forces you to throw all of them in jail, all the time, and be an all around tyrant, if you want to keep the council weak. Not only that, but should you lose a rebellion for increased council authority, be ready to have council authority be maximized in the space of a couple of years. You lose your +2 demesne, which means you are weaker than beforehand, and they can plan another rebellion right after winning the last one.

In my opinion, refusing a demand for increased council authority should result in a tyranny hit, not a goddamn rebellion, and there should be a cooldown before your vassals ask you for it again.

I agree. If anything , the systematic rebellions (vassals with less than 50+) combined with a weak AI make the games far easier than ever before as
It allows you to ransom dukes and counts and get a windfall in cash, making it far easier to hire mercenaries and retinues next time.
The goal was to make the game Harder but they did not. Just more boring ... Waiting years for threat to go
decline and putting down council rebellion after rebellion...