Can someone explain war goals or no war goals?
In my case as Germany attacking Denmark. Set war goal as conquer. Once war is finished I see Denmark in Politics tab as an occupied country with collaboration government policy.
Reload, same war no touching war goals. war is finished, Denmark is annexed. It does not show in Politics tab at all.
So which of these is better, IC, manpower, leadership, resource wise?
Playing DIG if it matters.
If you've enforced the wargoal (conquer), all of Denmark's territory should come under your direct control (excepting provinces that were taken by your allies, in my experience... which can be annoying). If they're still "occupied", the government has probably gone into exile.
I think you generally get better IC, resource, etc. returns from enforcing a conquer wargoal than leaving territory as "under occupation", but you swap partisans (affected by suppression) for nationalists (not affected by suppression
); not that you seem to have a choice (whenever I DoW someone myself, rather than being dragged in due to alliances etc., I have to name a wargoal up-front).
As far as I am able to tell, a war cannot be "concluded" without activating a wargoal (or by signing a peace).
On a related note: If Italy has bits of territory that wasn't orginally his, and is now occupied in places by Greece and UK, what happens when:
Someone (e.g. Greece) enforces a conquer wargoal,
or,
a puppet nation wargoal,
on him? Presumably Italian territory is divided amongst occupiers for "conquer", does this include Italy's previous conquests? And if puppeted, does Italy keep everything, and pay tribute to the nation who targetted the wargoal?
When do "conquered-conquered" nations, as in this example, Albania or parts of Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, reform, if they ever do?
Cheers.
Bonus question: Playing as Allied Greece with "responsibility" for Serbia, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey. It's 1943 and USSR is in control of more or less all of Central and Western Europe, dropping conquer and puppet wargoals left, right and centre (the first US divisions have arrived in... Africa, already occupied by UK, and together are marching around Tunisia and Libya doing not much of anything). France is now a Soviet puppet, the area once occupied by the Vichy government became "Germany" through some strange combination of the Free France wargoal and USA trying to conquer it(?!). Is there any way I can save myself, or at least, the world, from Supercommunistland?