Try lowering AI aggresivenes. It helps create blobs that do not fall apart due to constant wars.
Tell us about your useful AI allies!
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Try lowering AI aggresivenes. It helps create blobs that do not fall apart due to constant wars.
That is what I have now tried for the first time. I have upped the difficulty level and lowered the aggressiveness. The game has certainly become harder for it and more entertaining as well.
And I have had plenty of solid AI allies, some usual suspects being Austria, France, England, Castille. When doing a CtA I always make sure they are not in a war or recently out of one and will almost always get a positive response, especially if I have helped them out already. Its only in the later game stages where the non-vassal AI alliances begin to wear on me, as I get tired of answering CtA's against random landlocked Asian minors who the AI has no hope of reaching. Even a simple improvement such as a gauge of relative power levels when determining CtA would do wonders, instead of the apparent "ZOMG I IS ATTACKING SOMEONE PLZ HALP!!!!!"
Yeah, AI should never plea for help unless it think it could lose. Like player. If it start loosing a war, for some reason it should just use CTA. It would be lot more logical.
Let's say that if AI got twice the number of enemy aliance soliders, it should not ask for help. For what??? Unless it starts to loose provinces and armies of course.
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But on the topic. As strong country i tend not to have much of allies, as i don't need anyone else strong - i can manage wars on my own. But if i got strong enemy, it tends to be usefull to get an ally just to scare away the strong neighbour. For example i got allied france as ally, when i was aragon. I was also allied with brittany and sabaudy, and warned them just in case - to contain them as an ally, and to get excuse if they attacked someone i don't want to fight. I was not allied to castille, cause i did not liked an idea of helping them in any way. Whatever they were usefull - in their role. Castille never attacked me. So the same was with the other allies, to contain france - none got attacked by france. I also managed to vassalize algier-tunisia-tripoli, with tunisia being christian and rest muslim. Ofc. There is one ally that is allways usefull if it stick to you, so best way to make it always be your ally is to vassalize - Papal state! And ofc i did vassalized them. But i got corrupted save... FUUU!!!
So allies are usefull. But you just need to know how to use them. I mostly don't make aliances unless i need them to contain someone, or to destroy someone that is as strong as me or even stronger. For example i use to ally Teutonic order as moscow. They tend to be usefull, aspecialy if they come to help with lithuania. Or give you CTA in defensive war against lithuania or poland/lithuania - aspecialy if they got allies like HRE bohemia, that do help them in such war.
I mostly do only short term aliances, unless i offer them to vassal states. Long term alliances with AI, are useless, as they will bring you into wars you don't need or want.
Let's say that if AI got twice the number of enemy aliance soliders, it should not ask for help. For what??? Unless it starts to loose provinces and armies of course.
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But on the topic. As strong country i tend not to have much of allies, as i don't need anyone else strong - i can manage wars on my own. But if i got strong enemy, it tends to be usefull to get an ally just to scare away the strong neighbour. For example i got allied france as ally, when i was aragon. I was also allied with brittany and sabaudy, and warned them just in case - to contain them as an ally, and to get excuse if they attacked someone i don't want to fight. I was not allied to castille, cause i did not liked an idea of helping them in any way. Whatever they were usefull - in their role. Castille never attacked me. So the same was with the other allies, to contain france - none got attacked by france. I also managed to vassalize algier-tunisia-tripoli, with tunisia being christian and rest muslim. Ofc. There is one ally that is allways usefull if it stick to you, so best way to make it always be your ally is to vassalize - Papal state! And ofc i did vassalized them. But i got corrupted save... FUUU!!!
So allies are usefull. But you just need to know how to use them. I mostly don't make aliances unless i need them to contain someone, or to destroy someone that is as strong as me or even stronger. For example i use to ally Teutonic order as moscow. They tend to be usefull, aspecialy if they come to help with lithuania. Or give you CTA in defensive war against lithuania or poland/lithuania - aspecialy if they got allies like HRE bohemia, that do help them in such war.
I mostly do only short term aliances, unless i offer them to vassal states. Long term alliances with AI, are useless, as they will bring you into wars you don't need or want.
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LOSE, LOSE, LOSE!!!!
Drives me nuts when people use the wrong word
yea... right. Sorry just changed it to be right. I am tired, i should go to sleep by now...
Indeed, and it's perhaps the one main reproach I can make of this game: it wants to script the natural evolution of states until they resemble the world map today. Because Spain exists today, Spain must form, so Castile and Aragon despise one another (and Portugal). (Funny thing happened in a recent map: Guyenne was released and annexed Aragon, but Castile has remained particularly lenient about this. Instead, it reduced Portugal to Lisbon and overseas territories.) England and the Irish minors. France and Brittany. Then all the contentious territory to spur nations into acting a certain way. The Orkneys. Roussillon, which will be French before the end of the game. Sardinia. Giving united Spain a core on the Canarias, regardless of who settled it. That sort of thing.