ujtcelvn
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8 months ago I've never seen the war actually go on long enough for Austria to call in allies
Ah you might have misunderstood me when I said they'll call allies - I meant only they'll only call them at the beginning of the war, like for the Hungarian revolution. Now AI Austria will actually call allies when they start losing against the Italians.
Schleswig-Holstein
Yeah I see this pretty often too, but with S-H winning the 1st war but Prussia not sphering them quickly enough so they lose the 2nd war.
Xylephony
Continuing from #118 just for some of the remaining formation issues.
Regarding the First War of Italian Independence, Austria is I think losing just a little too much. They usually do put down Hungary, but in about 3/5 of games they are losing either Lombardy or Venice, and sometimes both. In the last two tests with the fixed economy, they lost both and Sardinia-Piedmont also forced them to release Friuli both times. I've never seen the war actually go on long enough for Austria to call in allies - it's possible Austria is getting heavily occupied but doesn't think it's lost enough national provinces to each individual combatant to call allies? Not sure exactly how the check for that works per combatant, but at any rate I think the conditions to call support in should be made a little bit more lax, because they're always peacing out before they get to that point. Also Austria often falls to rebels immediately following the series of wars, so if you haven't I recommend implementing my earlier suggestion where each of the wars that Austria wins reduces their war exhaustion and militancy slightly.
Regarding Germany, the last problem there seems to be Schleswig-Holstein. Usually Denmark is sphered by - and allied with - Britain before the First Schleswig War starts. Denmark usually wins the first war absolutely with nobody coming to Schleswig's aid, or Schleswig wins the first war but Prussia doesn't sphere it in time to defend it and this leads to Denmark annexing Schleswig and Holstein popping out as independent. Prussia then goes on to beat Austria for hegemony and sphere all the North German states, but since Holstein doesn't have Schleswig it gets stuck here, unwilling to fight a British-supported Denmark for Schleswig and usually waiting until the 1870s, or Crown from the Gutter, in order to finally unite.
Nothing about this is wrong, and it should be possible for it to happen, but I recommend moving forward with #103 to help reduce the chance that Prussia keeps getting stuck in this particular situation. Those negotiations would only have a chance to take place, only have a chance for the other side to accept, and only have a chance to come to an agreeable conclusion anyhow, so there will be plenty of failure points still in the system that can keep Prussia stuck for longer before it can unite, but this will give a path forward in the event that Denmark is strong and protected by Britain, as well as finally making it possible for France and Germany to coexist on friendly terms.