ItвЂ™s not going to cripple your play, just set you back a little bit in exchange for getting to raise your armies and take some new titles while your enemy is weak. Levels of Fame/Devotion brings their own benefits, so ideally you want to avoid this, but itвЂ™s not as big a problem as вЂ“ say вЂ“ truce breaking. You can declare a war without paying its cost, at which point youвЂ™ll instead pay something bigger, such as a Level of Fame or Devotion. On the other hand, we donвЂ™t want to keep you from taking advantage of a great opportunity just because youвЂ™re missing 10 Prestige at a crucial moment, so the costs are optional, in a sense. This is usually Prestige or Piety, depending on whether you are starting a war against a fellow believer or someone from another faith. One thing that has changed a little is the fact that different CBs come with different вЂњdeclaration costsвЂќ attached to them. In different situations there will be a different options, of course, and some are even unlocked in special ways, such as the ones unlocked by perks, as shown off in the Diplomacy Lifestyle dev diary. The most common ones are for pressing claims, as youвЂ™re familiar with from CK2.

One thing that is as it ever was, however, is that you need a Casus Belli to go to war, and that CB determines what happens when the war is won (or lost!).

Just a few bits and pieces that have changed since CK2. This week weвЂ™ll be talking about a lot of additional details surrounding warfare.

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