Finland just did a truce and Axis got it too???

[gladius2metal]

Playing Germany, just taken Moscow in May 1944. (Leningrad and Stalingrad still in Russian hands). London is long gone also the rest of Europe.

Suddenly a huge lag... and then the message that the Fins went for "acquire territory" or something. All of the sudden the front line is gone and the Soviet Union is restored.

I just checked in an autosave, I had "conquer" as war goal.

Is this is a bug? Or did I hit a button during the lag that "signed the truce"?

 

[marxianTJ]

Were you playing an MP game? Because sometimes in those scenarios if the other player does not match your conquer war-goal, the game will simply grant the least aggressive war-demand and call it a day.

I've had this happen with Italy before as well (tried using acquire territory on their African bits, and Marseille lol) in the end when Hitler took Paris I got Marseille, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, et al, and Hitler got NOTHING lol.

So what you want to do if you're the Germans in these situations is be sure to hit conquer first, and then an acquire territory goal as often as possible after that (start with the biggest territory you can find - many nations have a HUGE portion of them set as an acquire territory wargoal). That will keep the system from wigging out and doing weird things to you.

 

[gladius2metal]

no, single player. But Finland has a less aggressive war-demand.

can I kick Finland out of the Axis or something?

 

[marxianTJ]

Hmm... well if you're helping the Finns you could stop helping them (no LL, stop moving your troops in the area). The Soviets should be able to hold up a Finnish invasion even with you running around lol. Or you could go back in time a bit and make an especial effort to block their progress if your last save is too close to make some territorial demands of your own.

You could also tag switch to findland by hitting the ~ key (left of the #1 key on the number row) and typing in "tag FIN" and that will switch you to Finland, and then you can see what sort of wonky wargoal they've put in place, or add the conquer wargoal if you can, and that should right things - then just hit the ~ key again and type in "tag GER" to switch back to Germany - leave the game paused however of the AI will take over your armies and start doing wacky stuff lol.

 

[gladius2metal]

the weird thing is: the Finnish front was a stalemate the whole war, but now every Soviet front broke (Southern, Mid, Japanese) except the Finnish one... actually Finland is almost conquered... I guess Stalin was more keen on getting Finland and annoying my Swedish territories than saving Moscow, Maripol, etc. LOL

so yeah, the best solution is to pull out my few panzer divisions in Finland and let the Soviet get "conquer Finland" I guess.

what does "no LL" mean? no lend lease?

 

[marxianTJ]

Yeah