Europa Universalis

I think a cassus belli system could be great for Civ. The reason is that I play a lot of domination games, yet I always find it mildly ridiculous that the AI doesn't really recognize that I'm a conquerer and am going to be coming for them eventually. If I show up on another continent with my army and vassalize or eliminate 6 of 8 civs there, the other two guys should be able to take note of what I'm doing. In EU, you accumulate your "bad boy" points for declaring wars for no reason. This really helps the AI combat over-aggressiveness and pool their resources to stop you once you get too conquer-happy. A good AI design should be able to handle that, but as it is in Civ every AI is working independently and the only consequence of beating up all of a Civ's neighbors are the -1 "you declared war on our friend", which only matters if those civs you took were indeed friends of theirs. Simply, there is nothing in the Ai design to make it try and collectively combat you if you moving from one civ to the next. It would be entirely awesome if after a certain point the AI's civs would enter into joint declarations of war, despite their differences. This would mirror RL events like the Napoleonic Wars. The only problem with a cassus belli system is that it wouldn't make sense for the ancient or even medieval era, as in general most everyone was fighting with other ethnic groups on their common borders without genuine reason. And when conquering took place, that was just the way of the world. But as it is now, diplomacy is stuck with ancient-era interactions and depth. Steam Games. source

Can someone point me to this tutorial scenario or a tutorial AAR perhaps? That's actually how I learned the ropes of HoI2 was through an excellent German tutorial AAR. EUIII Complete. source

I'm a new member to the board, but I've played AACW off and on for a little while and it is absolutely brutal to new players that aren't used to the engine. It's very frustrating, but not in an unfair advantage kind of way, more of a "crap, I didn't even think to defend that spot" kind of way. Right now I'm the Union in July 1861 and Joe Johnston snuck past me into Pittsburg and has it under siege. But the game is fun in its frustration and is very addicting. Europa Universalis I II III Collection. source

Just me but I'd go Victoria, Expansion pack revolutions, and then HOI2 -day. In total you spend thirty-forty bucks and you get to run a country for from 1820 to 1953. HoI is Just. source

Casus belli is a cool concept within the EU game rules, which in terms of diplomacy are more sophisticated than total war titles. It would not fit ETW in the same format, besides similar feature is in place already through the diplomacy standing. However this concept is very cool, and could improve gameplay in TW. Complete and HTTT building types, game industry, resident evil, handdrawn map, loved to see a ck, sid meier's civilization è molto più. source