The Diplomatic Game is about taking
over countries without firing a
shot or getting other countries to
do your bidding without them
knowing it. You can manipulate your
way across Europe by carefully
choosing who you make an alliance
with. Knowing the time to make or
break alliances is the key to
success here.
For example, a country is less
likely to go to war if the country
its about to attack has a strong
alliance. So sometimes refusing an
Alliance is all you need to do to
leave a country open to attack.
Just remember, if you do not have
friends then your also open to
attack. Sometimes an ally will
invite a country into the alliance
without your permission. I once
rejected England's request to join
my alliance and Lombardy invited
them in anyway.
So the first thing to learn is how
to choose the right alliances to
achieve your ends.
It is important to know that any
powerful nation bordering a nation
will be considered before any other
Empire attempts to attack it. If
another Empire attacks a small
nation along your borders and did
not either offer and Alliance or
ask for Right of passage then you
know they consider you weak and you
should start building troops. If
you have a large army then they
will usually ask you for one of
those treaties before proceeding
with their planned conquest. They
do not want to risk looking weak in
your eyes after the fighting ends
and would rather pay you a large
sum of money to keep you out of the
war if possible.
Knowing this allows you some
control over when and where other
Empires will attack. Saying no to a
treaty of any kind usually ties
their hands. They can still attack
but they know you could attack them
whilst their armies are away
attacking other nations. So they
usually abandon the plan until such
time when they are either so strong
your opinion does not matter or you
finally agree to their terms.
Also if your allied with several
powerful nations and a few small
nations, then those small nations
will be safe from attack from
almost everybody. Which means they
can be taken over by raising their
Sympathy for your empire to 100%
without some other nation simply
moving 3 Armies into the country
and taking it by force.
Other nations will be trying to
raise their Sympathy levels too so
you have to fast.
You can raise the sympathy for your
nation in several ways that include
some special quests available in
the game. Most of the time you will
do it in the following manner.
In the first Era you would build
the following buildings in a region
you want to take over. The region
must be friendly or Neutral to you
and ideally should have roughly 50%
sympathy for you already but if it
does not, there are ways to raise
it higher.
It is not possible to build
anything that would raise your
sympathy level in any region owned
by another playable nation. Those
you must conquer in the more
traditional way. |
