This is embarrassing but I'm just realizing I know next to nothing about how victory conditions, war goals, and contested territory works.
Background: still playing as Germany, it's August 1942 now, only my second game (gave up on my first one in 1939). When going to war with Poland I took the liberty of not adding a war goal since I assumed my territorial gains would be covered by the scripted event same as in HoI 2 (of course a bad analogy since that game didn't have a war goal feature in the first place). When Ribbentrop-Molotov fired I got my cores and just assumed the striped color scheme of non-core provinces was irrelevant here. I also didn't add war goals for France, Netherlands (in this case I didn't even attack them myself), Belgium and Luxembourg and the situation was largely the same, meaning all my territorial gains were striped.
As we fast forward to 1942 and my conquest of the UK - where I actually was lucid enough to add conquest as a war goal - my territorial gains are not striped. Meaning, by analogy, that the striped territory is contested.
I can see no way to fix this, as I am unable to add the conquest war goal after said countries already surrendered their territories on the mainland. Am I missing something here?
Or does this have anything to do with the government in exile feature I've been hearing about, and I shouldn't be able to fully annex these territories in the first place? That wouldn't explain why I annexed India and half of Africa from the UK after barely reaching Lancashire.
EDIT:
I don't think I'm going to be able to defend all of the UK's former colonies. How much sense does it make to release some of them as puppets?
Background: still playing as Germany, it's August 1942 now, only my second game (gave up on my first one in 1939). When going to war with Poland I took the liberty of not adding a war goal since I assumed my territorial gains would be covered by the scripted event same as in HoI 2 (of course a bad analogy since that game didn't have a war goal feature in the first place). When Ribbentrop-Molotov fired I got my cores and just assumed the striped color scheme of non-core provinces was irrelevant here. I also didn't add war goals for France, Netherlands (in this case I didn't even attack them myself), Belgium and Luxembourg and the situation was largely the same, meaning all my territorial gains were striped.
As we fast forward to 1942 and my conquest of the UK - where I actually was lucid enough to add conquest as a war goal - my territorial gains are not striped. Meaning, by analogy, that the striped territory is contested.
I can see no way to fix this, as I am unable to add the conquest war goal after said countries already surrendered their territories on the mainland. Am I missing something here?
Or does this have anything to do with the government in exile feature I've been hearing about, and I shouldn't be able to fully annex these territories in the first place? That wouldn't explain why I annexed India and half of Africa from the UK after barely reaching Lancashire.
EDIT:
I don't think I'm going to be able to defend all of the UK's former colonies. How much sense does it make to release some of them as puppets?
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