How to sue for peace in a civil war

[Leptictidium]

Hello, I realise this may seem a stupid question, but for the life of me I can't find how to do it.

An experienced CK2 player, I started dabbling in Imperator a couple of days ago. Playing the tutorial, I've conquered the samnites and the other Italic tribe to the north that you need to beat in the tutorial, so I've got the hang of suing for peace and enforcing my demands.

However, shortly after, a civil war was launched against me and, even though I absolutely trashed their war enthusiasm by capturing virtually all their territory and crushing their armies, there doesn't seem to be an option to "Sue for peace". Is this a special civil war mechanic? How am I supposed to do this against a revolt?

Thank you!

 

[olivenkranz]

You cannot manually peace out. You can only win by either a) wiping their leader's army or b) occupying every single of their territories. The other option is to lose. It's possible there are some bugs that can occur when a third party intervenes regarding force white peaces, but I am unsure.

 

[HistoryDude]

Yep. You either occupy all of the rebellion's provinces, or they occupy all of your provinces. Even killing their leader isn't enough (wiping out their leader's dynasty might be, but the character I was roleplaying predictably died before I could test that).

You could cheat with console commands (annex), but, well, that's cheating.

 

[olivenkranz]

Yep. You either occupy all of the rebellion's provinces, or they occupy all of your provinces. Even killing their leader isn't enough (wiping out their leader's dynasty might be, but the character I was roleplaying predictably died before I could test that).

You could cheat with console commands (annex), but, well, that's cheating.

Wiping the capital levy will also win the civil war.

 

[Leptictidium]

Yep. You either occupy all of the rebellion's provinces, or they occupy all of your provinces. Even killing their leader isn't enough (wiping out their leader's dynasty might be, but the character I was roleplaying predictably died before I could test that).

You could cheat with console commands (annex), but, well, that's cheating.

Thank you very much for your swift replies, everyone. Wow, that sounds very grindy and tedious compared to, say, fighting revolts in CK2.

Is this WAD or am I missing something here that might actually make this a bit more fun?

 

[olivenkranz]

The civil war is something that represents your nation tearing itself apart... it shouldn't be easy.

 

[Leptictidium]

Agreed, but having to systematically play whack-a-mole with your enemy's last few troops and holdings just seems to drag on civil wars without actually making them more difficult. More of a chore than a challenge, is what I mean. That's why I asked if perhaps there was something I was missing. Anyway, thanks for the information.

 

[Telenil]

Thank you very much for your swift replies, everyone. Wow, that sounds very grindy and tedious compared to, say, fighting revolts in CK2.

Is this WAD or am I missing something here that might actually make this a bit more fun?

You can set your armies to carpet-siege automatically, so you don't have to clic on each individual tile yourself.

 

[trewajg]

Agreed, but having to systematically play whack-a-mole with your enemy's last few troops and holdings just seems to drag on civil wars without actually making them more difficult. More of a chore than a challenge, is what I mean. That's why I asked if perhaps there was something I was missing. Anyway, thanks for the information.

With small countries this is not an issue. With medium to big countries, just set your armies to independent operations and only intervene when you think it is necessary. Or you can set all your small armies to independent operations and control only your main armies. At least that's how I play it, it works fine.
In a game like eu4 I agree this would be very tedious, but in imperator this kind of wars are very fun and manageable if you make proper use of the army objectives.

 

[Dayvit78]

It is a little annoying... but the fort system means all you have to do is ensure the capital city of each province isn't sieged down and then keep the enemy's army moving or eliminate them. All the other territories in a province will automatically revert back to your control. (ie while they're wasting time seiging down some worthless territory, it gives you time to catch up to them)