Bulgaria questions....

[21oliver]

When playing the USA or Japan or a minor etc... I always see Bulgaria join the Axis relatively easy and early, I believe 1941 is the latest usually. And yet i have the hardest time moving them if I play Germany. I remember reading they move quickly off of one or another decision with Romania or some events thereabouts. I must be working around the events or not enabling them to fire. In fact i cant recall the last time i saw the request for territory Hungary/Romania etc... Im going to check the wiki page again, not sure if that area is up to date. Anyone with any knowledge as Germany for getting Bulgaria into the Axis?

TFH Vanilla...

 

[gunstickuncle]

The Bulgarian claims on Dobrudja only fires if Romania is not part of the Axis yet. It reduces Bulgarian neutrality. So unfortunately if you speed up Romanian entry into the Axis, Bulgaria does not get this neutrality reduction. And sind BUL has a paternal autocrat regime (unlike Romania), the threat countries like Italy (Fascist), Germany (NS) and Japan (PA) generate until 1940 does not reduce their neutrality significantly. Best countries to raise threat on in order to reduce BUL neutrality should be GRE, ENG and SOV. Unless you are in the 1938 scenario, where Greece starts of with a fascist ruling party.
I am also tempted to believe that the fate of Yugoslavia has impact on Bulgarias affection for the Axis. Mainly because YUG holds BUL cores, and if other Axis countries (like ITA, GER, HUN, ROM) conquer these cores, BUL is repulsed from the Axis in the diplomatic triangle.

bulgarian_claims_for_constanta = {
potential = {
tag = BUL
...
year = 1940
ROM = {
not = { alliance_with = GER }
not = { faction = axis }
}
}
allow = {
month = 8 # September
not = { alliance_with = ROM }
BUL = { is_subject = no }
ROM = { is_subject = no }
}
effect = {
set_country_flag = bulgarian_claims_for_constanta
relation = { who = ROM value = -50 }
neutrality = -5

 

[21oliver]

AH-HA!!!! Ty in recent games ive been getting Romania in early. But then again I had problems with Bulgaria long before that. I do usually raise threat on both the Soviets and the UK. I tried Greece once, dont remember how much it worked...

Thx for the info!