User Guide

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As is the case with the “demand tribute”
option, the enemy will evaluate your proposal
and compare it to the terms he feels might be
able to achieve if he continues to prosecute the
war further. If the offer is appealing enough,
he may agree. If not, he will continue to press
his advantage.
Preparing the Terms of a Peace
Offer
If you selected the “annex” or “white peace”
option in the peace offer interface, the pro-
posal requires no additional information and
is immediately sent for your enemy to consider.
When demanding or offering tribute, you need
to provide additional details about the specific
terms of the agreement. This is done using a
secondary interface that allows you to select
from a wide variety of different terms that may
be included in the agreement.
Peace terms fall under five different general
categories: provinces, cores, vassals, new na-
tions, and special terms. We will look at each
of these in turn in a moment; however, each
term that you add to the proposal will have a
war score value associated with it. As you add
each new term to the proposal, it will be added
to the summary box at the bottom of the screen
and its war score value will be added to the to-
tal that appears in the bottom right corner.
By comparing the war score value of your
terms to the actual war score displayed at the
top of the screen, you will have some idea of the
likelihood of the enemy accepting the proposal.
When you are winning the war, demanding a