Asking AI to join a war?

[Agent_TBC]

I feel like I'm clearly missing something because I can't see any way to invite another player to join an existing war? I can propose a joint war against someone we are both at peace with, but I can't see how to try to bribe them into joining a war I am alreadly engaged in, nor how to offer to join a war they are engaged in.

Surely this is possible? It's always been possible. What am I not seeing?

 

[Xur]

The AI doesnt understand joint war declaration... at all. The AI developer even said so during a livestream iirc. I guess its one of the reasons we see spam wars too

 

[Whiskey3romeo]

This is just one of many reasons why diplomacy in Civ 6 is so dreadfully awful.

 

[Cronos]

world wars, alliances, joint wars and a web of international diplomacy were features of previous civ titles that were removed/streamlined from the current iteration. Here have a potato instead

 

[Art Morte]

I noticed the same, you can't ask the AI to declare war on someone, you can only ask for a joint war from a peaceful situation. Baffling why they'd make such a change. The only reason I can think of is that in 5 you were able to, iirc, ask the AI to declare war on someone while you did not declare war on anyone. You know, if they fancied their chances anyway, you could conjure a trade deal where you gave them maybe some gold and luxuries and in return they would declare war on someone. Without you yourself going to war. This didn't feel quite right to me, either, but to have the option removed altogether is disappointing.

 

[Arent11]

Aww, I miss Alpha Centauri. When you grew too strong, the ai asked you for technology/a 'piece of the cake' otherwise it got belligerent. When you were weak, they demanded tribute. When you traded tech/signed peace treaties with their enemies, they demanded that you stop that. Why, I even remember a text passage of corazon santiago who accused me (university) of having a secret 'weapon development program' & that she would 'place that technology in more responsible hands' (Aka herself). Or Yang who demanded money because his 'teeming poor masses' grew 'restless' & one wouldn't know what could happen :O