Everyone leaves the Axis after Victory in the West event for Germany

[degen83]

So 1.08 was released and I upgraded my game to that from 1.07, clean install.

I started in 1936 as Germany, built up, did the event chains to get me into WW2, annexed Poland, shared the eastern part with the Soviets, warred with the Low Countries, Denmark, Norway, set up Vichy France, etc, standard AOD stuff. Italy declared war on Greece, which caused Yugoslavia to war with Italy and I think that caused the Allies to declare war on Italy. So Italy asked to join the Axis, so I let them in.

I decided to invade the UK first and set up a puppet UK before attacking the Soviet Union this time since I was tired of getting bombed from the UK. So I invaded, paratroopers set up a beachhead and transported my army over and in short order had the UK surrender event. So far thats normal.

However when I chose to put Mosey in power and set up a puppet government, everyone left the axis, including Germany, and Germany joined the UK + their puppets + my puppets (Romania, Hungary) vs Italy. So the Axis was no more, Sweden left my military alliance and I only retained my puppets.

Any idea why everyone would leave the axis? I don't remember this happening before 1.07, could it be related? Or is this just a fluke? Did I get Italy into the Axis too late and messed up event chains because of that? Or has it always been the case where the event "Victory in the West" causes the dissolution of the Axis? Its been a while since I've played Germany so any input here is appreciated.

 

[Mr_B0narpte]

Are you using a mod? It takes more then just capturing Great Britain in order to get the UK to surrender on 'vanilla' AoD.

 

[Pang Bingxun]

An event called victory in the west is no part of AoD 1.08. There has been no change in 1.08 that could have caused what you describe.

 

[joerd9]

I think the SMEP Mod has an event chain like this, but it usually works perfectly fine.
Which mod are you using?

 

[degen83]

I'm using SMEP, the one released for 1.08.

To clarify, it seems that when Italy DOWed on Greece that caused the UK to declare war on Italy, in what seems to be a second war. So Italy was in a war with the Allies in the Axis/Allies war, and again at war with the UK and her satellites/puppets in a separate war. For some reason when the Victory in the West event fired and the chain played out, everyone left the Axis and because my puppet UK was at war with Italy I inherited that war and me and all my puppets joined the UK war vs Italy.

What was most wierd about this is that everyone left the Axis. So it was a wierd turn of events, with Italy helping me with Yugoslavia and Greece, with me handing over the Yugoslav coastline to Italy, only to find myself at war with Italy over the very territory I helped them get a few months later.

I'll make a new game and play it out and see if I get the same behavior, I was just curious if anyone else had experienced a similar thing. It sounds like it could be a fluke. I'll play through this again from a new game to see if it happens again.

I also posted this is the SMEP mod thread which is a more appropriate place for it.