Is the constant war a planned feature?

[Shelifon]

After creating my own kingdom and tooking a few fiefs for myself I'm in a state of constant war. Just after making peace with one faction another one or two attacks me. Sometimes it's Aserai, which is ridiculous - I'm a map away from them. I use Configurable War Attrition mode, so peace offers also is a common thing, but still I have no peaceful hours. It actually ruins gameplay - I have no time to rest or to manage cities and have to savescum often.

Is it just how it supposed to be or I'm missing something? Or maybe I somehow became a sweet target even for factions weaker than my own?

 

[jonstr]

+1

 

[Hhg93]

After creating my own kingdom and tooking a few fiefs for myself I'm in a state of constant war. Just after making peace with one faction another one or two attacks me. Sometimes it's Aserai, which is ridiculous - I'm a map away from them. I use Configurable War Attrition mode, so peace offers also is a common thing, but still I have no peaceful hours. It actually ruins gameplay - I have no time to rest or to manage cities and have to savescum often.

Is it just how it supposed to be or I'm missing something? Or maybe I somehow became a sweet target even for factions weaker than my own?

Just use prevent escape mod otherwise wars are endless 2veb if you capture the entire enemy general staff in one battle they simply escape 2 minutes later and gather an army of thousands and attack you again. I believe calradia population exceeds China by this time (1000+ days into my save)

 

[iskar]

The never ending warfare kind of kills the game, ironically, even though the battles are probably the main element why most of us play this.

I joined the southern empire as a vassal, as the independent kingdom route is basically not working at the current stage, but even this way, as soon as we had conquered 2/3 of the empire territory, Aserai, Khuzait and Vlandia all declared war on us by script and now the empire is getting battered on three sides. I can at most defend against one faction and the rest of the empire seems too distracted by raiding villages to put together a proper campaign. So there is no way my faction is not going to be eradicated and at this point the game just becomes a grind of endless battles against stupidly fast respawning lords. I'll probably not pick up this playthrough again and will wait for further updates before starting a new one.

 

[Emperor97]

In the grim past of the 11th Century, there is only war.

 

[Bramborough]

Key phrase at beginning of OP post: "After creating my own kingdom..."

So of course nothing is working right. Shrug.

 

[Mik1306]

Playing as vassal for sturgia atm and my save is rapidly breaking because sturgia decided it would be a great idea to go to war with 4 separate powers in a few days.

We were fighting battaria and making progress, and then in a couple of in game days we decalredwar on vlandia,the northern and western empire and the kuzaits.

Naturally we're rapidly losing, largely because i can't personally defend both Tyal and Vercheg simultaneously.

 

[pyerr]

Developers explained AI war behavior like this: "Currently war decleration / peace mechanisms are basic and they will be developed by time. For now one of the most important factor is (total settlement value / strength) ratio "
So when you create your own kingdom, most likely you will be first target on AI list because you will be weakest kingdom on the map. They are currently work to change war/diplomacy mechanics.

 

[ZydrateTheSmoothCriminal]

Key phrase at beginning of OP post: "After creating my own kingdom..."

So of course nothing is working right. Shrug.

Aaaah so that's intented. Good to know!

 

[Solomani]

Agree, the endless wars are exhausting. Bonus is they give the opportunity to gain new land.. but my army is constantly drained and I have to run the map to get recruits. I don't even have a chance to stock up the garrisons with recruits. Forget about following the main quest because you're constantly being besieged.

I've even tried wearing out the enemy via attrition. Slaughtering their armies at a 3 to 1 kill ratio. The diplomacy view shows they are taking huge losses and their power is half ours, but they still keep coming. I then roam around looking for depleted enemy garrisons. I don't know where they get their soldiers from because the garrisons are stacked. Especially when they are down to the last two strongholds.

 

[xdj1nn]

Agree, the endless wars are exhausting. Bonus is they give the opportunity to gain new land.. but my army is constantly drained and I have to run the map to get recruits. I don't even have a chance to stock up the garrisons with recruits. Forget about following the main quest because you're constantly being besieged.

I've even tried wearing out the enemy via attrition. Slaughtering their armies at a 3 to 1 kill ratio. The diplomacy view shows they are taking huge losses and their power is half ours, but they still keep coming. I then roam around looking for depleted enemy garrisons. I don't know where they get their soldiers from because the garrisons are stacked. Especially when they are down to the last two strongholds.

the AI cheats, they recover a % of their total party number everytime they respawn.