Hungary, although very helpful against the Ottomans as a third ally. In all of these wars there were also probably multiple instances of the enemy sending a single regiment of 1k troops to attack one of my armies for no apparently reason, so basically the AI is fucked but I am sympathetic to the devs because AI is hard and it's probably extremely complex as it is. EU4 Commands Casus Belli IDs Commands Country Tags Idea Group Keys Institutions. In another game I was sieging Vienna and Austria had 2x as many troops a couple of provinces over but did not do anything (I was playing as Russia and took the risk because it did not matter if those people died).Īs Russia, I was fighting Ming and they avoided any confrontation and instead sent their armies across Siberia, I assume towards the capital, but I'd already finished the war before they could get there. I have never been able to survive the first war against the Ottoman since that strait blockade nerf a long time ago. I played an Ireland game and I basically defeated England because their entire army fled to Wales and did not move, while I sieged the rest of their country, including that fort.
Peace out a few of your cores if possible and look for expansion oppourtunities elsewhere such as venice and then towards the mamluks.
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I have also noticed that sometimes the AI just runs away and avoids engaging armies, even when they could probably defeat them. The ByzantineOttoman wars were a series of decisive conflicts between the Ottoman Turks and Byzantines that led to the final destruction of the Byzantine. Grind the ottomans down with sheer numbers until the mamluks or qq feels brave enough to declare their own war which takes a bit of luck.