Faction AI still broken.

[VincentX]

Storytime.

- Playing Germany.
- First order of business: attack and annex Poland in fall 1936. Success!
- Turn Romania fascist. Success! They join the Axis later.
- Attempt Anschluss. Failure! Declare on Austria and have Hungary called in. Conquer both. Success!
- Attack the Soviet Union in the fall of 1938. Russian civil war occurs, authoritarian Russia immediately joins Axis and together we beat up the Soviets.

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Authoritarian Russia immediately picks focus to turn communist.

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I just cannot.

*sigh*

*deep breath*

- Influence Russia to turn fascists to prevent them from turning communist. Success, but draining my resources.
- France has turned communist and joins Mongolia in the Comintern.
- Italy, now my ally, attacks Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia calls in communist France. Execute Schlieffen. Success!
- Britain joins the fight.
- Continue to conquer all of continental Europe. Success! Raj falls soon after.
- The US joins the fight. Makes sense.

Everything looking good and making sense!

- 1942. Spain joins the Allies.

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*flips table*

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- Calm down. Conquer fascist Spain. Success.

So, questions:

- Why does Austria refuse Anschluss when there is nobody to help them (Italy doesn't care) and they're just instantly steamrolled?
- Why do Russian anti-communist rebels immediately try to turn themselves communist again?
- Why does communist France join the Comintern when the Soviet Union doesn't even exist anymore?
- Why does communist France help Yugoslavia against an enemy that vastly outnumbers both combined? (Germany + Russia + Italy + Romania + annexed Poland/Austria/Hungary)
- Why does fascist Spain turn on a massive fascist Alliance?

I thought this patch would finally make countries behave sensibly in non-railroaded campaigns, but once again I'm left utterly confused by the AI's choices.

My overwhelming impression is that a lot of national focuses lack sensible restrictions because, by and large, the restrictions don't come into play in historical mode anyway. But in non-historical sessions, things keep going south pretty much every time!

I think, as a start, that Spain and Russian revolters should have their own focus trees, since they're guaranteed to appear every session.

EDIT: Britain coerced Spain. Nevermind, I need sleep. *sighs*