Do other nations go to war with each other?

[paul]

The question is in the subject, but I would like to take the opportunity to thank the team behind Rule The Waves - it is brilliant!  I loved SAI and would regularly come back to it for the simple pleasures it offered, so much so that I went and designed every missing design including minor nations as some of the hypotheticals.  And along comes RtW which is essentially centred around ship design over the whole period!  There go my evenings...

Anyway - so, do other nations go to war with each other?  I'm a bit worried about them stockpiling against me... playing as Germany and have trounced Russia in three wars taking all but one of their border/foreign regions.

Paul

[gornik]

For now, answer is: No. Player is centre of the world and other nations may fight only against him or at his side (if you have ally, sometimes he may sink enemy ships and/or lose his own by operations event).

[tmp]

It's a bit unfortunate as it puts the player as disadvantage, overall (you're likely to face multiple conflicts i.e. losses over the course of the game, vs 1-2 or even none for the AI nations) but on the other hand I suspect the alternative would mean everyone just getting decimated by AI Britain by the end of the game, at least with the historical budgets.

[paul]

Well so far, thanks to now four wars with Russia (I always choose to escalate tensions), I have a very large naval budget and while having decimated their navy, have one of the largest in the world. I do fear a 2 v 1 although I have a strong alliance with Italy which helps.