Greetings.
I recently made a suggestion concerning the improvement of the possible 'Reoccupation of the Rhineland'-war and someone helpfully suggested that I repost it in this thread, as this is apparently where the actual debating and decision-making takes place (or so I am told).
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I see that this event has received some interesting additional finetuning in the latest CORE patch, with Poland now also seizing the opportunity to gain claimed territory. I'm not sure whether CORE 0.80 has already progressed beyond the 'feature lock' stage or not by now, but could this event chain be expanded upon some more?
For example, if Germany actually managed to conquer France in this situation without starting off the 'real' WW2 (Low Countries, etc.), it could choose to only demand Alsace-Lorraine and reparations instead of the usual Vichy/total conquest deal (although that would still be an option, of course). This would have the very nice result of getting the three Maginot-Line provinces and whatever French colonies were German before WW1, a ton of resources and diplomatic influence and maybe some IC (which would all in turn be subtracted from French belongings). British and American war entry should decrease somewhat with this option (by the same amount as through the original 'France threatens war' event, kind of a "well, don't say we didn't warn you"). Creating Vichy should still be the A option, however.
The same goes for Poland: If they attack as a result of this event chain without WW2 proper having started yet, Germany - after a victory - should get the chance (as a non-A choice) to only take the provinces lost after the Great War and let the rest remain independent (or, as a third option, a puppet, to mirror the French Vichy event) for a modest resource, DI and IC gain. The 'Eastern Poland to the USSR' event would function independently of this, although national claims to the German-again territories should be awarded with this new peace event as well.
The whole point of these new choices would basically be to get more time to stock up on soldiers and weaken some of your (most likely) later enemies while NOT messing with the big guys yet. You know, they started it, all I want is peace, etc.
Finally, there is a problem I have noticed with the current state of the event chain: Upon beginning of the 'real' WW2, France does not get an event to automatically rejoin the allies if it dropped out earlier due to the Rhineland event, even if both France and the Allies are fighting against Germany. This should naturally be remedied in future versions.
I think that's enough for now. Any comments or suggestions from the scenario wizards?
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The original thread can be found
here.
