It is also possible to be in alliances with multiple competing factions, which may lead to a situation where you have to choose sides and break one alliance in favor of another. Significant diplomatic standing (positive attitude) must be built up between two factions before an alliance proposal is likely to succeed.ĭiplomatic standing between factions may be improved by agreeing and sticking to non-aggression pacts and trade agreements, or via diplomatic gifts.Īn alliance is automatically broken by one party declining to join a conflict they would otherwise be compelled to enter. Allied factions commit at least to defending one another from foreign attack (defensive alliance), and may optionally go to war together (military alliance).
See military alliance and defensive alliance.įactions with closely aligned goals may choose to form an alliance through diplomacy.
