Anschluss

[DinoRo]

I was playing as Italy and Invading the Austrians, and then Anschluss happened and cancelled all of my progress.

 

[Dlin369]

If your playing on historical time your invasion to succeed before early 1938 - Austria is filled with mountains so be careful.

If you’re looking for deeper Anschluss mechanics you’ll probably have to wait till Italy is reworked in the future

 

[Ricka the Rekka]

Its been that like that since day one of the game. They really should fix it and make the the Anschluss focus cancel or unpickable if Austria is at war.

 

[kettyo]

In this case logical solution would be to let Austria be anschlussed and make Germany at war with Austria's enemies with keeping current enemy occupations. In case of a defensive war i would seriously reduce the generated world tension as the annexation can easily be portrayed as a defensive measure.

 

[Simon_9732495]

Austria should be guaranteed by Germany at game start in 1936.

I don't think that Hitler would have just watched Austria beeing invaded by someone else.

 

[Rashie]

Austria should be guaranteed by Germany at game start in 1936.

I don't think that Hitler would have just watched Austria beeing invaded by someone else.

I'm skeptical to the chances of that being implemented, given the Austria-Hungary branch of the Hungarian focus tree. Paradox clearly wants minors to be more capable in alt-history scenarios than they would be in real life, and a German guarantee on Austria that early would be in direct opposition to that.

 

[sekelsenmat]

I'm skeptical to the chances of that being implemented, given the Austria-Hungary branch of the Hungarian focus tree. Paradox clearly wants minors to be more capable in alt-history scenarios than they would be in real life, and a German guarantee on Austria that early would be in direct opposition to that.

Well, it could be cancelled if Austria-Hungary is formed.

 

[klopkr]

I wish de facto control of lands superseded de jure control of lands in this game.

If your midway through an invasion of somewhere and they get annexed then the states you control are yours for the taking. Then just give the owner a limited wargoal for the rest of the territory. Maybe you get to have border skirmishes for the contested territory.

I'd go so far to say this should apply to peace conferences too but that's a whole other can of worms.

 

[Ketchup & friends]

We think situations like these should be fixed like this:

• In case of annexations like the Anschluss or Benelux the annexing country should inherit all wars involving the country they gobbled up.
• The flavour text should reflect this.
• De-facto control shouldn’t change, e.g. any tile owned by Austria but occupied by Italy would become owned by the German Reich but remain occupied by Italy. In case Austria managed to occupy anything, the occupation of these areas should switch to Germany.

I'd go so far to say this should apply to peace conferences too but that's a whole other can of worms.

Peace conferences need to be reworked completely anyway.