Making History: The Calm and the Storm

Selecting a Nation

To select a nation, simply double-click on their territory until the sidebar changes to show the nation's side panel. This view for the sidebar displays the nation's flag, name, capital and ideology as well as other statistics on the nation in question. It then lists the allies of the nation (if any) as well as with whom the nation is at war. It then states the nations relations/attitude towards your nation.

If you are at peace with the nation in question, the sidebar will also offer you the options to: propose/leave an alliance, declare war, propose/cancel military access, initiate a territorial transfer or declare/cancel an Embargo.

If however, you are at war then you are given the options to: propose peace to the entire alliance that the nation is in or propose peace to just the nation in particular. If you chose the second option then the other nation must leave its alliance as terms of the peace in addition to any other terms you lay out.

Alliances

When you are in an alliance, many of your diplomatic actions will affect your allies. As a result, offerings of peace and alliance to other nations must first pass approval of your allies. If any of the big players vote against the offer then the deal falls through but your alliance remains intact. Declarations of war are an entirely different matter. If you declare war on another nation or alliance then all other nations in your alliance are offered an opportunity to leave the alliance before war begins.

An alliance is generally named after the largest (score-wise) nation in the alliance. Also, the colour of the alliance in the Alliance map view is generally the colour of its largest member.