Spain not attacking in Cuban play for independence?

[Trip]

New problem. I'm running Cuba and doing well. I make a play for independence and go to war with Spain. Even without trade my economy is strong enough to get by, it just slows me down somewhat but I am in no danger of bankruptcy.

Unfortunately Spain just refuses to attack me. They just sit a big navy in a sea node and have an army stack just sitting there as well for months on end. It's a stalemate.

It seems very unrealistic to float 15K troops across the Atlantic then sit them cooped up in those very same transports for a year and not all die of disease and malnutrition. I should have won by default by now.

What to do?

[Emygdius]

Win the independence war? I fail to see how this is a problem. Just AFK on the island.

I have noticed that you can day 1 independence as any of spains subjects now, and the most they will do is mobilise a single unit to navally invade. Just take 0 other objectives besides independence and wait for spain to get below 0 war score. There should be zero stalemate if all you asked for is independence. (Which is all you should ask for in the first war.) Spain will dip below 0 as their goal is your capital, while your goal is to just maintain your capital. Within the first 2 years of game play you can easily attain independence as Cuba and Phillipines.

[Trip]

They don'r go below 0 though, but neither do I. Both counties war score dropped to 0 and then stops.

No naval battles, no land battles, just Spain sitting in a sea node with their fleet and a 15K troop army. I even disbanded a bunch of my conscripts to see if I could bait them into attacking that way.

It's just an endless ineffective blockade by Spain.

[Emygdius]

Originally posted by Trip:

They don'r go below 0 though, but neither do I. Both counties war score dropped to 0 and then stops.

No naval battles, no land battles, just Spain sitting in a sea node with their fleet and a 15K troop army. I even disbanded a bunch of my conscripts to see if I could bait them into attacking that way.

It's just an endless ineffective blockade by Spain.

Did you ask for anything other then independence? War reps? Puerto RIco? If so that's your problem.