Absorbing the warlords in WTT

[basun]

Am I missing something here? I haven't been able to play much WTT since it came out but loaded up Nat. China and went down the route to United Front and then focused on military ones. When the japanese attacked, I had all of the warlords basically in the united front and I stalled out the japanese.

Previously the warlords got absorbed by china after some time, but it's now 39 and all of them still remain. Am I missing something here?

 

[Goshawk]

They won't just join you automatically now. You have to go down the focus interior focus tree and subjugate them by focus.

 

[PAnZuRiEL]

You decided to form a faction with them instead of puppeting them. You can probably still use some sort of political decision to try to absorb them.

 

[pvt.conners]

If you go down the external threat path you can subjugate them later in the one china policy focus in the right-most tree.

 

[basun]

If you go down the external threat path you can subjugate them later in the one china policy focus in the right-most tree.

Thanks all, I guess that's the best route to go down since the warlords dont really help out a lot compared to getting those cores by yourself.