I really hope they fixed the Alliance/Friend timer during war

[Arbelox]

It always annoyed me how a ally could lose ally/friend status DURING an active war

Example:

• Country Z attacks Country A (a small ally that you rather like)
  
• So you send an expeditionary force to help Country A defend its cities
  
• once you get all your units set up and in active combat...
  
• *poof* ally/friendship has expired
  
• now you have like 20 units outside Country A who is not a friend
  
• Country A now see those troops and demands you move them away damaging relations
  
• due to that you can no longer friend or ally Country A and all you can do is watch them get wiped out

this has actually happened in like probably 80% of my games, sometimes they survive and i re-ally sometimes they die to like 2 vampires and a couple melee units

but i do know the automatic timer still going during an active war is stupid

[Arbelox]

I mean I could be as simple as

If your country is dragged into a war through an alliance, that alliance timer is put on pause until the end of hostilities with the aggressor country

Editing to add this bit too:

This could also be the same logic if your ally asks for you to join them in a war against another country.

[MeniliteZ]

Originally posted by Arbelox:

I mean I could be as simple as

If your country is dragged into a war through an alliance, that alliance timer is put on pause until the end of hostilities with the aggressor country

Editing to add this bit too:

This could also be the same logic if your ally asks for you to join them in a war against another country.

I agree with this. This would be quite unpleasant to get forced out of helping an ally after you sent your troops there.

Originally posted by Orc01:

But for AI your troops may attack his borders, and they be feared backstabbed.
And, honest, my allies it was not uncommon to do so...
AI in civ very fickle

You can't backstab during the Alliance. If the timer was paused, there wouldn't be any chance to backstab, because the Alliance would remain.