Please you HAVE to give us the ability to set like War Targets or something.

[R4ampage]

COUNTLESS Times it has happened now that my Allies just suddenly turn around and abandon me right before a battle begins.
COUNTLESS Times it has happened now that my Allies Army of 1000 Refuses to join my army of 1000 so we can outnumber the enemies 1500 Strong Army so they just dance around until we loose the war.

Please, the game has a bunch of Good points but the Fickleness and indecisivness of Allies has gotten obnoxious now.
Give us an Option to at least suggest Targets or Strategies to our Allies so I know when not to uselessly throw my army into the grinder in the hopes my allies decide to join in.

[Richard]

I'm having the opposite problem. My ally abandoned a key siege 3 days before the castle fell to help me in a battle I was easily going to win lol.

[R4ampage]

I mean yeah they have their moments sometimes but damn If I'm not on the Edge right now because of how many times in a row this happened to me. I was really enjoying myself and thinking like I can do this and these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ just decide "Alright time to Throw the game Haha".

[Evilgenius]

They seem to work alright with me, i agree that if the AI thinks that you cannot win a battle, it acts strangely. That is probably whar happened in your situation. 500 more man could easily me compensated by terrain, unit composition or leader advantage.

But still the AI should have joined your battle if you engaged it and he was near.

[R4ampage]

You know what a Great position is to fight a battle? Defending a River Ford from a Forest with Superior Numbers, seems like my Allies think doing the Long run around the entire Country to Backdoor the enemy is the Smarter choice somehow.

Like they have to give us some ability to Coordinate man.

[The Former]

You have a war target. The war goal. :D

I'm not sure why everyone's having trouble with their allies, mine are doing great. Either they're seeing something you're not (perhaps the differential in commander skill, or terrain-to-men-at-arms comparisons?), you're pushing too hard, I'm very lucky, or the AI gets confused in larger wars.

[R4ampage]

Theny they should ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tell me what the problem is and not bail out suddenly at the last second to leave me in the dust.
I'm litterally talking about 2v1 scenarios that are very clearly in our favor if we just gather together. It has happened ONCE at the very beginning of my Second Campaign where I led a Vassal Uprising and 50% of the Vassals grouped up on me and followed my army around it was great and just worked wonderfully. All other times I tried to coordinate with an Ally they just went and did their own thing or baited me into thinking they would support my army to then just Leave them and loose us the War.

i call ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that the AI knows things I don't, I think it's just straight up dumb. Like why would they invite me into their Defensive war in the first place if they supposedly think it's not possible to win anyway.

[R4ampage]

Also I call ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on "Higher Commander Level" too, I had plenty of times a Higher Commander Level PLUS Defending Favorable Terrain but so far Higher Soldier Count always won. Doesn't matter what the Commander Level is, like I had an Army WITHOUT a Commander once beat someone with a Commander and I only had like 500ish more Soldiers.

[R4ampage]

Sorry if I sound very heated but I just came out of a 10 Hour CK3 Session and this seriously ruined my mood lmao.

[Evilgenius]

Originally posted by R4ampage:

Also I call ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on "Higher Commander Level" too, I had plenty of times a Higher Commander Level PLUS Defending Favorable Terrain but so far Higher Soldier Count always won. Doesn't matter what the Commander Level is, like I had an Army WITHOUT a Commander once beat someone with a Commander and I only had like 500ish more Soldiers.

I have won battles where it was 2 to 1 odd in favour of the enemy just by men at arms composition and knight count. Terrain might have helped aswell. 500 soldier more doesn't really matter if they are levies

[R4ampage]

Stop saying it was because of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Terrain or Man-at-Arms composition! I'm no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Idiot I look at my enemies armies and at the Terrain which is why I fight that in the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ first place! The problem the Ally AI seems to have is that only half the time they even Register my Armies it seems. Again if they could add someting to make the Intent of the Alliance Armies more Clear to the Player + give is some way to direct them/give suggestions for Battle Plans this confusion would not exist.

[Evilgenius]

Originally posted by R4ampage:

Stop saying it was because of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Terrain or Man-at-Arms composition! I'm no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Idiot I look at my enemies armies and at the Terrain which is why I fight that in the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ first place! The problem the Ally AI seems to have is that only half the time they even Register my Armies it seems. Again if they could add someting to make the Intent of the Alliance Armies more Clear to the Player + give is some way to direct them/give suggestions for Battle Plans this confusion would not exist.

Still, got no problem with my allies, i kinda like that they have their own mind, this system is more fun then the ally doomstack we had in CK2, but it probably needs some tweaking.