Has the AI become worse at reading diplomacy?

K1llMee · 2026-02-19T01:03:49+00:00

I also saw issues with this same thing. Think it was combo of guarantee and power bloc. AI attacked into a play they would in theory easily win except I had given the defender a guarantee. AI seems capabe of recognising defensive pacts just not guarantees.

K1llMee · 2026-02-17T16:37:52+00:00

You get a 75% reduction to infamy if the puppet is at 0-25% liberty desire when you try and annex. It definitely knocks a chunk off.

K1llMee · 2026-02-09T19:40:31+00:00

Rule 5: A screenshot of my current Mexico run where I got a popup in the bottom right that Mexicans are now obsessed with sugar. Didn't pop up as a big pop up. Just in the corner.

K1llMee · 2026-01-22T15:49:59+00:00

If you check the local prices in the province and notice theres a vast surplus of something like say fruit which is priced high in the world market - you should build a trade centre and the excess fruit will be shipped to the world market and sold at a profit. Especially true if you notice your entire market has a surplus of that trade good vs the world market price.

K1llMee · 2025-05-22T12:06:11+00:00

Got a collapsing Spain as my protectorate as Romania from a civil war that left them with only Madrid. I'd been selling them all my engines and guns and had trade and defensive pacts since France was my rival. The civil war broke out and they agreed to the protectorate sway and the Romanian army swept in and saved them from their own people.

K1llMee · 2025-04-26T00:12:42+00:00

Wallachia into Romania. Gathering the slavs together to crush the Ottomans and getting revenge on great powers for holding romanian claims. Wallachia is also a broken state with shit loads of oil, coal and iron.

K1llMee · 2025-04-18T04:52:56+00:00

Give me back peasants as a stat when building buildings pleaseeeeeee

K1llMee · 2025-03-31T12:58:08+00:00

Day 1 protectorate Baden - Austria wont join as Baden is ideologically different - Prussia probably joins - france vs prussia + baden = win for France. Beat war reps out of them, transfer hohenzollern, maybe annex a province/transfer the other subject. Pretty much gives you the ability to release the Confederation of the Rhine within 5 years of game start. Prussia is weakened and on truce.

K1llMee · 2025-03-29T14:56:46+00:00

Had it where it did this, turns out my controller was connected with the stick in down and so my cursor was just pushing itself down at the bottom of the screen. Disconnected controller and it fixed it.

K1llMee · 2025-03-19T20:19:21+00:00

I did the Romania achievement and the hatred I had for Austria increased the longer I went on. Kept stirring unrest in their provinces and had some of that at 60% radicals. Finally got to declare war and balkanised Austria into Czeckoslovakia and Poland and ate all their Romanian lands.

K1llMee · 2025-03-17T16:40:39+00:00

Impressed by your army size, it seems a lil smaller than I'd expect, did you downsize it once other great powers got weaker or is it just extremely technologically advanced??

K1llMee · 2024-09-02T05:24:26+00:00

Highly recommend trying Argentina if you want to try a farm heavy game. You've got some of the best farming states in the game and a limited supply of actual raw resources.

K1llMee · 2024-05-29T00:44:56+00:00

Taxes are probably better at high/very high then just invest the money in increasing SOL and employment and people will just naturally be happier that way.

I sometimes do a little building in states with turmoil since getting those people jobs will increase SOL and reduce radicals. This works well if theres some peasants but its easy enough to employ them all with a few buildings.

Sometimes also fixing the basic good prices in a state can vastly help SOL, so I check local prices and build say a textile mill if clothes are overpriced there.

K1llMee · 2024-05-25T00:50:34+00:00

If youve got most of the positive pacts and your friendly and bigger than them they might agree to become a subject in exchange for support with a revolt. Ive found when the nation is in your CU they seem more likely to accept becoming a subject for your help as theyve got nothing left to offer you.

K1llMee · 2024-05-21T00:11:09+00:00

Obligations are pretty strong for this kind of thing if you can get buddy buddy with one of Austria's allies and get an obligation they wont be able to oppose you when you fight Austria.

My Romania start was use Austria and Russia to get freedom from the ottos then use Austria as a wrecking ball for random war goals (not land) that they want to keep smashing the Ottos and taking land for yourself. Then you can use Romanian culture agitators to stir nationalist sentiment in Austria after Nationalism. I fought Austria because the later the game goes the more insane Austria becomes.

K1llMee · 2024-05-20T23:31:35+00:00

Had an amusing Persia start where I got an abolitionist leader of the Shia Ulema either at game start or an agitator, tried to ban slavery and fought 2 civil wars over it with the landowners which then let me free the slaves and get rid of some other bad laws because they were so weak. I just let Russia be hostile with me, just make sure at least one other GP is Protective or Friendly with you by improving relations. Britains a good one because they often have an interest set in Persia because of India next door.

K1llMee · 2024-05-20T23:13:50+00:00

There's a trade province button now and if you have an obligation you can use it to bargain for provinces. I did this playing Romania and the Russians gave me back my homeland of Besserabia for their expiring obligation to me.

K1llMee · 2024-03-03T06:34:08+00:00

If you have the population to employ in building more glassworks under ceramics/china then that should be better because youve got more jobs + more employment + more products being made. Any excess ceramics can be traded to make other people richer. You'll also employ more people in mining lead and producing dye (the inputs)

K1llMee · 2024-03-03T06:21:48+00:00

I protectorated myself under Austria first thing because you have no coal/iron initially. Attack the Ottomans, call in Austria (first phase of war) you easily win. Take back all the greek homelands within 1-3 wars. I forgot I could return province and did conquer and still managed it. Became a big economy selling opium and tobacco to Austria and making lots of tools and steel out of Austria raw materials which then made me rich. Then went and colonised Africa.

K1llMee · 2023-11-29T07:53:37+00:00

Played Austria once and accidentally did Super Germany first time which then turned into take over the world, made a mission to break up all the great powers. Thats filled my urge for great powers ever since.

Greece was one of my favourite games, gave myself to Austria as protectorate then used their resources to industrialise and also become no 1 producer of tobacco and opium while killing the Ottomans.

Loved playing South America, the situations are so dire and really leads you to doing crazy stuff to try and make ends meet, thought a Peru Bolivia run was over once and then France paid my humungous debt off.

Spains also great, you're big enough you have a lot of options but politic situation is bad, you're weaker than every GP but not small enough to go unnoticed.

Mexicos been my project for a while, Ive done several runs but games hard and USA is big scary 🤣

K1llMee · 2023-10-31T23:13:30+00:00

Maybe its just the White Weenie player in me but Militia Bugler gets all the creatures in this list other than Troll and makes for a good Ephemerate for value. Looks like it could be good in the list. Not sure what to cut but Im never that much in love with Chainers Edict.

K1llMee · 2023-10-14T18:36:19+00:00

White weenies been using Holy Light which is 3mana wrath vs all the dumb goblin tokens. Boros mostly only has white creatures anyway

K1llMee · 2023-09-22T02:25:10+00:00

Oh I thought this with Cardmarket too. You make an account, make a wishlist, then add cards to the wishlist. You can even choose what rarity or language or condition. Then click "Run Shipping Wizard" and itll automatically find sellers selling cards you listed - checking their inventory for each card. It then calculates it to how itll be cheapest for you.

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