No war for month

[STiAT]

I'm playing Nords at the moment, wanting the kingmaker achievement. My problem there is, that obviously Ragnar is not willing to fight wars anymore. I eliminated Vaegirs and Swadians, hold 5 cities with by now 100+ huscarls and 100+ archers in them because there was nothing more to do than to train groups in the past half year in the game.

Though, morale is more and more dropping, and I can't seem to find enough enemies to maintain morale of my 100 people i maintain in my party, and it's getting boring not to be in war, not being able to take more land.

Even provoking and risking that Ragnar gets mad won't work. Border incidents never end up in war, what ever I provoke is ignored. Even the lords don't have any jobs to be done according to taverns.

Is there any good way to get into war, or is the game simply bugged?

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

lucky you!
go get married or something
war will come

[STiAT]

I got married already :p...

[fieldshire]

Originally posted by STiAT:

I'm playing Nords at the moment, wanting the kingmaker achievement. My problem there is, that obviously Ragnar is not willing to fight wars anymore. I eliminated Vaegirs and Swadians, hold 5 cities with by now 100+ huscarls and 100+ archers in them because there was nothing more to do than to train groups in the past half year in the game.

Though, morale is more and more dropping, and I can't seem to find enough enemies to maintain morale of my 100 people i maintain in my party, and it's getting boring not to be in war, not being able to take more land.

Even provoking and risking that Ragnar gets mad won't work. Border incidents never end up in war, what ever I provoke is ignored. Even the lords don't have any jobs to be done according to taverns.

Is there any good way to get into war, or is the game simply bugged?

How about play multiplayer! Your problem may just be a bug, never ran into it though.

[Meadows]

talk to ragnar and if your his friend I believe you can suggest he go to war. Not sure if you must speak to him privately or during feast for this option.

[STiAT]

The suggestion of VL_Meadows worked I could persuade him into a war with Rhodoks, and immediately after the war was declared both other factions declared war on us. Maybe it was really some kind of deadlock there, now wars start and end as normal as I was used to it.

[Squidy The Cowboy Catgirl]

I've had this happen in many play thoughs... The enemie is preparing... trust me... eventually someone will attack you... then everyone will... I use this time to train new soldiers and prepare for the storm ahead.

[STiAT]

If you are on 200 huscarls and 50 swadian knights, a tax inefficienty of 60.000 (still gaining 10-50k/month) you don't really think about preparing troups but about whome to fight if you have no war.

And no, the kingdom is not mine, I don't ever say I want the citys or what so ever - i just get them, what drives my costs up like hell, and keeps my morale low.

I am in the moment of the position that I defeated all opponents - but rhodoks. They drifted away of having war with me soon. I defeated everyone else - but they won't go to war with me, and it seems even with provocation I can't, and my King won't response on provoking them...

[BrowneHawk]

SOrry haven't play vanilla in awhile, i thought you can just declare war on them? Maybe thats part of the diplomacy mod.

[Meadows]

This is already solved. Read his comment.

[fieldshire]

Originally posted by VL_Meadows:

This is already solved. Read his comment.

lol right?!

[[PSFC] FearSpear]

If you have that many fiefs and troops just start your own kingdom...

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by STiAT:

...Is there any good way to get into war, or is the game simply bugged?

A month is not a "long time" for peace. Truces often last a month, so it's not a big deal. Take a look at your Faction information and it will tell you if they have a forced truce or not and also when it will expire.

When it gets to be several months to a year with nobody going to war, that's when you know you have a problem. (IF a year and a half has passed for you, in-game, then you likely have the bug.)

Yes, there is a "bug" in the game that can result in unusually long periods between wars. To fix it, you can try to convince a King to go to war or you can edit the game in order to change the delay period between "war" decisions. (I think that's what the edit does.)

It's the "384 fix." You can find it if you search for it. I have a text-file with collected notes and so I will paste what I copied from a webpage that detailed the fix. (I didn't bother copying the link, though.)

""if you're having a problem with world peace on warsword conquest
go to the warsword conquest file open simple triggers
find the first 384 it will be at the beginning of the line
and change it to 24 and war will break out once the truces run out?"""

That's basically it. Edit your "simpletriggers" file and replace 384 with 24 and that will act to reset things so war will break out. I haven't used it, but it's a popular fix. You can search the Taleworlds forum using the 384 reference and likely find several posts on it, if you wish to verify.

[STiAT]

I was talking about half a year, not a month ;-).

[DaBanzaiFish]

You monster, think about the well being of your people! Make love, not war! Just imagine all the children you've orphaned on your way power. Now is the time to give back. Disband your armies. Send them back home to their families. Raise some dogs and cats. Feed your poor. Once you get to five or six guys remaining in your warband, I gaurantee that your morale will be astounding!

[The Termigator]

If the king won't make war make it your self.