War Exhaustion

Imagine, you are invading a country with your superior army against an actual play controlled country, then when they begin losing the war, they set all their remaining cities on fire(aka scorch them) to make it so that when you annex the territory you will have low stability from the unrest in the scorched cities and if you don’t take then the war will keep going until you lose or you have high war exhaustion due to the ongoing war. I bet this happened to you and maybe you’ve done it before but this is my opinion: when I do it, it’s strategic decision making but when someone else does it it’s so annoying I don’t even want to take the territory and sometimes just straight up dip. So in conclusion has this happened to you or have you done it to someone else? If so please notify me in the comments.

Most I've ever had on my own.

Only 18 more forms left for me

the story behind this is i was trying to wait for my friend to come back and some south korean girl took my friend's empire and didnt give it back. so i just prepared since she was spamming so much shit near my border (i had 24k artillery in madrid and lots of ships lol) and she started losing so much. i lost the iberian penisula but still had my colonies and both of our war exhausts and stability were so bad that our lands starting declaring independence. i tried white peacing but do you really expect her to do that? no of course not, but nonetheless she still played and then finally left later.

so what can you learn from this? learn how to play the game and dont just spam crap like a qing dynasty player. oh yeah and the game was super laggy obviously

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