As the Byz in DW I did the classic first action of move next to Jannina (Epirus), wait for Naples to declare war then declare myself and move in to start the siege before Naples gets there. I took Janinna and went to annex and I am not allowed to. Game says that I can't annex until I own all the provinces and my war score is 2%. For the life of me I can't find any other provinces Epirus owns, there are no indications of any vassal or national unions etc. I am stumped, any ideas what may be going on?
Why can't I annex Janinna?
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I got there first and started the battle and had the most troops. The siege % appeared on my board in the upper right after the battle was won. Is there a way for someone to snatch control of the siege from me under those circumstances? If so I am very cranky.
Maybe you moved your army by accident, and i think even splitting it up can cause you to lose siege leadership. In any case, when you hover your mouse over province, it will show you who owns it and who currently controls it (occupies it by force). If thats you, you can annex, if not, if you have 100% war score you can force vassalisation, if not that either, then you cant do anything.
Hum, I did divide my force (leave siege troops behind order) to move troops to prepare for an invasion of the Turks and there were Neapolitan troops there at the time. I will check on that and if that is the case I will go back to the previous save which should be before I did that. Thanks, it sounds like you may have hit on the issue. That will teach me to be impatient and send off troops before the siege is done.
yes if you split the army during a siege the other country also besiegeing the province will take over the siege.
But is there a province they occupy? That would also prevent annexation.
His warscore being 2% suggests he doesn't control their province though, regardless of any provinces they might control.
2% warscore suggests there are a bunch of other nations in the war and Janina is the war leader. Is that the case?
No the only country I am at war with is Janina. Naples is also at war with Janina but in a different war than mine. I divided my troops by hand but must have clicked the wrong stack or some other issue, my computer barely runs DW and has issues on stack selection sometimes and locks up a lot. I believe I made the error somewhere and lost the lead even though I never left the province. The 2% is probably from the two battles I won fighting the Janina troops. I will fix this now that I know what is going on. Thanks.
Even if Epirus was the leader of a large alliance I believe occupying their only province would give you a warscore of 100% (or 99% if they also controlled some province of yours).
the problem is in the button detach siege. instead of detaching your main army "out", it detaches a small siege stack while the main army window stays open. the moment you move the main army stack out of the province, that army loses control of the siege. obviously a problem when you want to control the province and another country is also besieging. it should split the stack and refocus the army window on the new army instead of the main one
just hover your mouse over the units in that province. it will list the army names. the top one in the list maintains control as long as it stays there. now when you detach, the new army is at the bottom of the list so it gets last dibs on the control once the siege is won.
so dont detach when other people are there, instead manually split it up. unfortunately if the first army has a leader you need, that leader can't leave without giving up that top siege position
i'm not sure from where or when but it used to be the best leader in the siege maintained control. that was also a headache tbh when you wanted to split stuff up, but it was nice to just swoop in and take control over the AI's sieges because you had a brilliant leader and the AI didnt
just hover your mouse over the units in that province. it will list the army names. the top one in the list maintains control as long as it stays there. now when you detach, the new army is at the bottom of the list so it gets last dibs on the control once the siege is won.
so dont detach when other people are there, instead manually split it up. unfortunately if the first army has a leader you need, that leader can't leave without giving up that top siege position
i'm not sure from where or when but it used to be the best leader in the siege maintained control. that was also a headache tbh when you wanted to split stuff up, but it was nice to just swoop in and take control over the AI's sieges because you had a brilliant leader and the AI didnt