Alliance with spain?

[TalyonUngol]

Anyone know on historical when Germany wants to do this focus or what makes him want to?

Would being in a faction with him make him do it faster?

 

[brainiac1530]

Looking at the game files, that focus isn't in the German strategy plan for focuses, so it doesn't have a specific time to take it. I'm not sure if, in general, the AI can take other focuses once it exhausts this list. However, in the case of this specific focus, there are other restrictions in the focus definition itself.

modifier = {
    factor = 0
    OR = {
        is_historical_focus_on = yes
        date < 1942.01.01
        surrender_progress > 0
        AND = {
            has_war_with = ENG
            ENG = { surrender_progress < 0.2 }
        }
    }
}

So, it looks like the AI will never take this if the "historical focuses" game rule is on, regardless of any other considerations. It'll also never do it before 1942, or if it's partially occupied (the surrender progress), or if they're at war with England and not already significantly winning.

 

[TalyonUngol]

Looking at the game files, that focus isn't in the German strategy plan for focuses, so it doesn't have a specific time to take it. I'm not sure if, in general, the AI can take other focuses once it exhausts this list. However, in the case of this specific focus, there are other restrictions in the focus definition itself.

modifier = {
    factor = 0
    OR = {
        is_historical_focus_on = yes
        date < 1942.01.01
        surrender_progress > 0
        AND = {
            has_war_with = ENG
            ENG = { surrender_progress < 0.2 }
        }
    }
}

So, it looks like the AI will never take this if the "historical focuses" game rule is on, regardless of any other considerations. It'll also never do it before 1942, or if it's partially occupied (the surrender progress), or if they're at war with England and not already significantly winning.

Yuck. That really just makes playing anything but Anarchist spain outside of Multiplayer just not worth it.

 

[Iskulya]

Yuck. That really just makes playing anything but Anarchist spain outside of Multiplayer just not worth it.

Not everyone who plays the game is looking for junior's first world conquest runs for each and every campaign they play.

Any single one of the Nationalist Spain focuses branches is more interesting than the Republican ones imo, but the Stalinist and anarchist ones are alright. The POUM path feels extremely constrained by being automatically set against the Soviet Union and lacks the ability to really meaningfully do much outside of an MP game. *Republican* Republican Spain really has nothing interesting in its focus tree after the Civil War ends, and there's really no reason to expand Soviet aid as the Civil War is easy enough to win without it.

 

[TalyonUngol]

Not everyone who plays the game is looking for junior's first world conquest runs for each and every campaign they play.

Any single one of the Nationalist Spain focuses branches is more interesting than the Republican ones imo, but the Stalinist and anarchist ones are alright. The POUM path feels extremely constrained by being automatically set against the Soviet Union and lacks the ability to really meaningfully do much outside of an MP game. *Republican* Republican Spain really has nothing interesting in its focus tree after the Civil War ends, and there's really no reason to expand Soviet aid as the Civil War is easy enough to win without it.

Unless you play in an unhistorical match, and Germany doesn't do very well or changes ideologies, Spain doesn't get to do anything until 1942, which means you work very slightly in Africa and don't get much out of it. You won't get any land because of how war score works because you started very late. You're entire purpose would just be to defend your borders, help a little bit in Africa and defend Germany from naval invasions from America. Not really worth playing that way.

I would like to bet that most people who play spain, play the anarchists.

 

[TalyonUngol]

AI spain FINALLY joined the war against the Allies... IN 1951.

He's going to have a great game impact.