Alliance Building

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Does anyone here know what factors in the chance of another country joining an alliance? The reason I'm asking is that I've been playing as Germany and the Italians, Hungarians, Romanians, Nationalist Spaniards... don't seem to want to join me. I think I have deduced some factors, but some confirmations and additionnal ones would be welcome. Here's what I have so far.

1. The military power of the country seems to be a major factor; I've put all my land and air forces in reserves (that's the redeployement pool), so I figure that they see me as a worthless weakling.

 

[BiB]

1) The more DI u have the more powerful ur requests are. The I stands for Influence and having 50 influence is better than 0.

2) Put ur units on the map instead of trying to cheat on supplies

 

[Darkrenown]

Originally posted by BiB
1) The more DI u have the more powerful ur requests are. The I stands for Influence and having 50 influence is better than 0.

2) Put ur units on the map instead of trying to cheat on supplies

This isn't worth a new thread so I'll ask here; why won't Germany let me (Brazil) join the axis? I'm Fascist, at war with the allies and have ~60DI. Every time I ask to join I'm told Germany doesn't want to join my alliance.

 

[unmerged(2240)]

Funny you should talk about this but I was having the same problem as Germany.

I DoWed Czechoslovakia right after the Austrian Anschluß event in March 1938. I figured this would "prove my manhood" but nobody would ally with me still, not even Italy or Japan. I did manage to get Yugoslavia to join me, so it felt good that I had some backup should I need it. Then the Allies DoWed on me near the end of my Czech campaign. But the French weren't doing anything, and the Dutch and Belgians were still neutral, so I just defended the other side of the Maginot until I was ready to attack Poland. Again, I was hoping that Hungary and Romania might want some yummy land, but nobody allied with me. I scrambled through Poland in about 2 weeks and it was all over. Then I moved everything to the west front and just left garrison units east to face the Reds.

Now... here's where something interesting happens. I defeated France in a 1 month slogging match and right after that I managed to get Nationalist Spain to join me. I had sent about 4 troops to them two years earlier during their civil war, so you could say maybe that and my victory to the north had something to do with it, I don't know. Anyway, as I reassessed my situation for the upcoming "Battle of Britain", I decided I couldn't totally trust a huge open southern border facing Hungary and Italy, so I placed some garrison troops there too. Right after that, Hungary finally joined my alliance. Then, after about 2 months, Italy joined. And I literally only had 4 or 5 DI points. So I'm thinking there's a bit of a "domino effect" that occurs in this game. And it isn't necessarily having to do with victories...because just after I defeated the French, the US joined the Allies. I think the domino effect has to do with actually getting "big" or "strategic" allies to join you.

I still can't get Finland to join me though. Of course, they shouldn't have to... they were only pro-Axis because of the East Front war. Right now the USSR has their own Comintern of Mongolia and some other country so they can't join the Allies.

Looks like it's gonna be fun.

 

[unmerged(12138)]

Originally posted by BiB
2) Put ur units on the map instead of trying to cheat on supplies

I'm not cheating on supplies, I have simply sent them on an extended leave before the start of the hostilities so as to get their morale up - if they don't receive an organization bonus for that then this game is simply broken and Paradox are.....

I just hope I don't get hit with the "U-Boat crews gonorrhea epidemic" random event in 1941!

 

[kevarms]

Originally posted by Hamourabi
I just hope I don't get hit with the "U-Boat crews gonorrhea epidemic" random event in 1941!

ROFLMAO !!!!

 

[BiB]

Originally posted by Darkrenown
This isn't worth a new thread so I'll ask here; why won't Germany let me (Brazil) join the axis? I'm Fascist, at war with the allies and have ~60DI. Every time I ask to join I'm told Germany doesn't want to join my alliance.

U wouldn't happen to be aligned very much to teh democratic camp (as Brazil tends to be)?

 

[Darkrenown]

Originally posted by BiB
U wouldn't happen to be aligned very much to teh democratic camp (as Brazil tends to be)?

Umm, crap, so I am. However, I am Fascist, shouldn't that count for something?

Does this mean Brazil can never join the axis then? I don't get electons and even letting my dissent rise until I get couped would probably make me democratic or commie (unless it ends the game or this is impossible).

"Won't let me join, eh Germany? Then its war!" *Manic laughter*

 

[BiB]

It's quite unlikely, yes

 

[Darkrenown]

I suppose I could change country to Germany and coup Brazil then go back to being Brazil...Its a bit late now though.