I decided to dedicate a thread to just how stupid the AI can be, inspired by a game I've recently started. I started a (Vsemirna Vlast) game as Brandenburg, from the "A New World!" scenario. I thought it'd be interesting, as it starts with many historical concepts already in place (strong Muscow, Aragon-Castille PU, strong Ottomans, etc.) I thought it'd be cool to try and form Germany (to my surprise, I can't find the decision anywhere.) In the first couple of years I managed to do the following:
- leave the HRE (originally intended to be able to take stuff out of the empire, but I've since discovered that one, that province decision is nowhere to be found, two, even declaring war with the Nationalism CB will now drag in Austria, the HRE, and three, a good thing, I no longer get the infamy penalty for Unlawful Imperial Territory.)
- Ally with Lübeck (temporarily, they failed to honor our alliance), Bohemia (in a PU with Hungary) and Brunswick
- Annex Mecklenburg and take two provinces from Thuringia
- Vassalize Bremen (from the hard work of Bohemia)
Now to the "Stupid AI!" story I was talking about. So apparently, Bohemia had declared war on Austria (who was allied with Poland, who themselves lead a union with Lithuania and is extremely powerful- I'd given them military access but they'd already joined the war), and Hungary was dragging me into the war. I braced for impact with Poland, but my alliance with Bohemia was simply too valuable and it was a good opportunity to gain trust, so I accepted. I expected Poland to attack me, but they didn't. Instead, even though they risked a Bobemian invasion, Austria decided to invade me. They had went around Bohemia (they were HRE and thus had access through all of the HRE) and had taken Bremen along the way. They had taken a doomstack of over 40K troops (basically their entire army according to the ledger, risked annihilation at the hands of Bohemia, and invaded. I sent my army (around 20K) to run into Poland, who themselves attacked my army. It was a hopeless situation, I thought. But then, I saw an icon on the bottom-left of my screen. A peace offer from Austria. I thought it had to have been harsh, but no- it was white peace. I thought I'd just sacrifice my vassal to get this. Without hesitation, I accepted. I expected to lose my vassal- but I actually didn't. Austria instead demanded that Bremen annul treaties with the Hansa (it was modded out by Steppe Wolf, but the modmaker had forgotten to get rid of the treaties.) And that was it. If you have anything to want to add, post it here.
- leave the HRE (originally intended to be able to take stuff out of the empire, but I've since discovered that one, that province decision is nowhere to be found, two, even declaring war with the Nationalism CB will now drag in Austria, the HRE, and three, a good thing, I no longer get the infamy penalty for Unlawful Imperial Territory.)
- Ally with Lübeck (temporarily, they failed to honor our alliance), Bohemia (in a PU with Hungary) and Brunswick
- Annex Mecklenburg and take two provinces from Thuringia
- Vassalize Bremen (from the hard work of Bohemia)
Now to the "Stupid AI!" story I was talking about. So apparently, Bohemia had declared war on Austria (who was allied with Poland, who themselves lead a union with Lithuania and is extremely powerful- I'd given them military access but they'd already joined the war), and Hungary was dragging me into the war. I braced for impact with Poland, but my alliance with Bohemia was simply too valuable and it was a good opportunity to gain trust, so I accepted. I expected Poland to attack me, but they didn't. Instead, even though they risked a Bobemian invasion, Austria decided to invade me. They had went around Bohemia (they were HRE and thus had access through all of the HRE) and had taken Bremen along the way. They had taken a doomstack of over 40K troops (basically their entire army according to the ledger, risked annihilation at the hands of Bohemia, and invaded. I sent my army (around 20K) to run into Poland, who themselves attacked my army. It was a hopeless situation, I thought. But then, I saw an icon on the bottom-left of my screen. A peace offer from Austria. I thought it had to have been harsh, but no- it was white peace. I thought I'd just sacrifice my vassal to get this. Without hesitation, I accepted. I expected to lose my vassal- but I actually didn't. Austria instead demanded that Bremen annul treaties with the Hansa (it was modded out by Steppe Wolf, but the modmaker had forgotten to get rid of the treaties.) And that was it. If you have anything to want to add, post it here.
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