Getting credit for captured territories

[navymule]

A relatively new player here. Playing as the USA, why is it that when I finally get involved in the war in Europe, the territories I capture don't get marked as "United States of America"? Instead, if I liberate France and attack German territories from France, they get marked as France. Same if I attack through a UK zone, Belgian zone, etc.

If my armies capture the territory, shouldn't they be mine until the peace conference?

 

[TheMeInTeam]

I recently made a thread documenting a lot of weirdness, and it can be pretty game breaking for smaller nations. The rules for who gets the province immediately upon occupation do not appear to be consistent, and often a faction leader will refuse to give you land.

In extreme cases, I declared on a nation, took it while entering only from my own territory, and the faction leader was credited with the WC to make them a puppet before I got a turn:





Elsewhere, I capitulated Turkey and Italy got all the land (unlike Germany Italy would give me stuff I wanted), but then we get this weirdness:



So sometimes we keep the land after all. This is an example of the game's automatic occupation "logic" in play:



I declared all wars in SA. It nearly every case, it was either exclusively me or me + minimal help from other fascist nations there to capitulate the targets. Germany gets control because reasons. Sometimes, the factories/resources from land during a war really matters and occupied land is a substantial proportion of industry on average across a game, so this really needs to work better.

 

[Assault Korps]

I always save my game right before a peace treaty, then go back and redo if it comes out totally screwed. I'm not trying to cheat, just get the peace treaty thing (which I can not understand) to do what I'm trying to get it to do. I don't know if there is any randomness in the treaty rounds, I just can't figure out how to tell it to "annex everything". Maybe you could try saving it like that, and messing around to try to figure out what the old dealeo is.

 

[navymule]

My issue is not so much the peace accord process (which is also wonky) but actual land combat itself. If I attack an enemy territory from an ally territory, that territory often becomes a territory for my ally and not me. This is problematic when playing SP since my armies do the majority of the fighting in Europe. Is there a setting or some policy that the territories my armies conquer become my territories?

 

[TheMeInTeam]

My issue is not so much the peace accord process (which is also wonky) but actual land combat itself. If I attack an enemy territory from an ally territory, that territory often becomes a territory for my ally and not me. This is problematic when playing SP since my armies do the majority of the fighting in Europe. Is there a setting or some policy that the territories my armies conquer become my territories?

The screenshot above showcases that issue also; Germany has almost 0 troop presence in SA, yet their during-war controlled territory looked like that. Italy controlling Turkey is also nonsense, I paradropped Turkey and capitulated them myself. The game then used that occupation as an excuse to give Italy land in the caucuses too. Unlike Hitler, Musolini would give me some of the land, but this is still a bad interaction by any reasonable estimation. I controlled 90% of the occupied territory (as Synarchist Mexico) in Turkey, so why did it all flop over in capitulation to Italy? You'd think the only nation that even crossed the Bosphorus strait or took territory would be the one to control the land initially...but nope.

And I agree that pre-peace deal control + war contribution are the two major broken factors, not the peace conference itself. Controlled land is crucially productive, so who gets it until the war ends is not trivial.