Couldn't find a comparable thread, so I wanted to discuss for feedback and suggestions.
With the La Resistance DLC, Alsace-Lorraine becomes problematic for the Fall of France as Fascist Germany. Specifically, I don't like holding France due to the high resistance values and prefer to turn the territory over to Vichy or a puppet. The former is problematic since you are not allied (and cannot transfer territory) and will have to wait for Vichy to join the Axis. A puppet France is problematic because of Alsace-Lorraine ("AL").
Specifically, AL is a possible German core that you need to hold for seventy days in order to core. In contrast, German gains a Polish core through the Danzig or War focus. After declaring war Germany can simply occupy Danzig and core it. This is great for a puppet Poland as the game will not turn over your cores to the puppet. You can defeat Poland, core Danzig and then promptly form the puppet government. You cannot do this with France.
First, under the focus, Germany must occupy and hold both AL and Luxemborg for 70 days to core both. Second, AL houses the Maginot Line which is practically impregnable. It is possible to take it, but 9 times out of the 10 the better choice is simply to bypass the Line and by extension AL. Combined a problem occurs when France falls.
When France surrenders the Vichy event immediately fires. As discussed above, I do not like creating Vichy and prefer a puppet. But it's ability to form is dependent on all related cores you control having 80% compliance. When France falls there will likely still be British troops in country and unoccupied provinces. Both are likely to remain Free French requiring some cleanup by the German player.
Normally this doesn't matter. The collaboration score fires on the territories you control when France falls, you immediately create the puppet and any subsequently conquered French land goes to the puppet. But if you want to control AL, you need to secure it and then wait 70 days. If, while waiting the 70 days, you take a French province its compliance defaults to 0% as the collaboration score modifier already applied and you lose the ability to create the puppet. On the other hand, if you create the French puppet immediately, AL goes to the puppet and you lose the ability to core AL and Luxembourg.
The only workaround I can find (assuming you don't create Vichy) is to first conquer AL, fire the event, wait 70 days, and then conquer France (this might be incorrect, France may need to fall first but haven't tested). But doing this flies in the face of reasonable military strategy. Not only is AL tougher than a coffin nail (thanks in part to the AI insistence on keeping excessive divisions there) but the focus of your fighting should move you away from AL (as the Germans did in real life).
Under the current focus tree, I'm not sure on the best fix as the related France focus tree (which could grant the core ala Poland) is normally bypassed due to Poland. Reworking the entire script by, for example, giving Germany a preexisting core on AL and having the focus event only apply to Luxembourg seems like the best choice.
With the La Resistance DLC, Alsace-Lorraine becomes problematic for the Fall of France as Fascist Germany. Specifically, I don't like holding France due to the high resistance values and prefer to turn the territory over to Vichy or a puppet. The former is problematic since you are not allied (and cannot transfer territory) and will have to wait for Vichy to join the Axis. A puppet France is problematic because of Alsace-Lorraine ("AL").
Specifically, AL is a possible German core that you need to hold for seventy days in order to core. In contrast, German gains a Polish core through the Danzig or War focus. After declaring war Germany can simply occupy Danzig and core it. This is great for a puppet Poland as the game will not turn over your cores to the puppet. You can defeat Poland, core Danzig and then promptly form the puppet government. You cannot do this with France.
First, under the focus, Germany must occupy and hold both AL and Luxemborg for 70 days to core both. Second, AL houses the Maginot Line which is practically impregnable. It is possible to take it, but 9 times out of the 10 the better choice is simply to bypass the Line and by extension AL. Combined a problem occurs when France falls.
When France surrenders the Vichy event immediately fires. As discussed above, I do not like creating Vichy and prefer a puppet. But it's ability to form is dependent on all related cores you control having 80% compliance. When France falls there will likely still be British troops in country and unoccupied provinces. Both are likely to remain Free French requiring some cleanup by the German player.
Normally this doesn't matter. The collaboration score fires on the territories you control when France falls, you immediately create the puppet and any subsequently conquered French land goes to the puppet. But if you want to control AL, you need to secure it and then wait 70 days. If, while waiting the 70 days, you take a French province its compliance defaults to 0% as the collaboration score modifier already applied and you lose the ability to create the puppet. On the other hand, if you create the French puppet immediately, AL goes to the puppet and you lose the ability to core AL and Luxembourg.
The only workaround I can find (assuming you don't create Vichy) is to first conquer AL, fire the event, wait 70 days, and then conquer France (this might be incorrect, France may need to fall first but haven't tested). But doing this flies in the face of reasonable military strategy. Not only is AL tougher than a coffin nail (thanks in part to the AI insistence on keeping excessive divisions there) but the focus of your fighting should move you away from AL (as the Germans did in real life).
Under the current focus tree, I'm not sure on the best fix as the related France focus tree (which could grant the core ala Poland) is normally bypassed due to Poland. Reworking the entire script by, for example, giving Germany a preexisting core on AL and having the focus event only apply to Luxembourg seems like the best choice.
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