Compiled for game version 1.1.2

You can configure the multiplier to apply to the influence cost of declaring war when a faction is already in a war.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<war_and_peace>
<war_influence_cost wars="1" multiplier="2" />
<war_influence_cost wars="2" multiplier="5" />
<war_influence_cost wars="etc" multiplier="10" />

<declare_war_peace key="W" />

<lord_spawn_party_size value="">

</war_and_peace>


In my current play, my Mad Queen declared war on literally every other Kingdom. It just doesn't make sense a lot of sense.
I endured this madness for many game weeks. I tried to use my influence to ask them to sue for peace but none of the other council members wanted peace either. The last straw was the fact that, for some reason, I could not leave the Kingdom, so the whole thing felt too nonsensical and I could not continue my story the way I wanted it develop.

I implemented the Ctrl+W function as a way force things back into something that made sense.
You should use it sparingly, otherwise it will feel like cheating and make you lose interest in the game.

When you press Ctrl+W, you are presented with a dialog that asks you to enter the name of the kingdom you want to declare war or make peace with. If you are at war with that Kingdom, if you make peace, otherwise you declare war.

You can reconfigure the key used to declare war or make peace. Or you can remove that line altogether to disable the feature.

Added an option to the configuration file "lord_spawn_party_size" that works similar to "FillStacks" and "War And AI Tweaks" determining the size of a lord's Army Size when they respawn.
By default, the option is empty which means the vanilla behavior.
If you change this to 1, Lords spawn as a one-man party and must refill their ranks just like the player has to.

The hotkey no longer works while in combat.