War trigger with unequal treaty

Country A would not be able to enter Country B without triggering a war (unless they avoided the nodes for each province, in which case entering would scarcely be more profitable than staying on your side of the border). They would need right of way to do that.

You could potentially do it with stealth units; I don't know whether they stay hidden from countries you have Right of Way with, since I tend not to get many Right of Way alliances thanks to my playing style. I assume the same visibility rules would apply to them as they would to a peaceful or enemy nation, since they appear to do so with all other units.

My understanding of it is the same as yours. There is a risk of your opponent turning off share map while your militia are positioned at a province center, so once they get to their destination I'd make sure to move them just off the center so you can spring your trap at the right time.

If I'm carrying out a mission like this, it's almost always because I plan to get in a pre-emptive backstab. So I don't usually worry about where my forces are and how likely they are to be noticed. I don't usually even bother hiding the fact that they're there, because the other person will hopefully not have time to react.

In such situations, however, I usually have a shared map (given that my relations with other nations usually polarise to that or trade embargo/war). I only downgrade to Right of Way if even that, which is automatically sketchy, will draw less attention than the huge forces bearing down on the target's capital.

A more cautious player would probably use a modified technique; my betrayal strikes are usually designed to be mostly over one way or another within 24 hours.

The main advantage to keeping units off centre, I've found, is defensive, so you can stand back and let the overpowered doomstack pass without taking unnecessary damage and then take the province back once it's off the central node.

jubjub bird wrote:

My understanding of it is the same as yours. There is a risk of your opponent turning off share map while your militia are positioned at a province center, so once they get to their destination I'd make sure to move them just off the center so you can spring your trap at the right time.

Yeah, I was gonna do that. Park them outside the cities where I would be most likely to have an uncontested path to the nexus, like lines leading to the water etc.

I usually just put them inside the city entirely. If I think he's going to notice and attack, just send units with a defense bonus and let him do the dirty work.

Lady Aragosta wrote:

it's almost always because I plan to get in a pre-emptive backstab

DxC wrote:

I probably won't even attack him since I don't like to bully new players, but I thought it would be super fun to infiltrate his country with undetectable militia

Usually if a player is understanding about pretending a certain event never happened, I'm nice to them and leave them alone. Although I take no responsibility for the actions of my coalition members.

DxC wrote:

For the record, this isn't a backstab. That isn't the way I play personally.

Operation infiltration underway:

Nice.

If you declare war

OUCH

I would hate to be him

He has no designs against the country in question, but is merely carrying out a spy mission because he can.

(That I know of.)

Yeah, I can take him out any time I need to with or without clandestine operations. I will probably eventually need to take him out, because he has a large fraction of his army (in medium tanks) next to my border and his coalition member, Germany, borders me to the west. If I take Finnland out I can move all my army to the western front where all the action will be.

Lady Aragosta wrote:

If I'm carrying out a mission like this, it's almost always because I plan to get in a pre-emptive backstab.

Carking the 6th wrote:

You and your backstabs Aragosta…

Allies aren't cheap.

DxC wrote:

Allies aren't cheap.

Then again way too many of my wins are from first day coalitions so I can’t be talking…