Basically it's the title, with a bit more background: I'm playing a MP game with my friend, he is Germany i'm Austria. It's the late 1890s and he starts colonizing Africa and is now in a deadlock battle with the British over the upper half of the Congo. And he is sadly loosing it. Now there had been a point before, where they battled over Cameroon and this little "A crisis will start when tension get's too hot" thing ticked all the way down, tension was at 100 for 3 months or so. Yet nothing happened! And the same is about to occur in Kongo! I read up on how to trigger a crisis and that you can use a NF for cores, but obviously uncolonized states can be focussed, nor are they cores of Germany. So, why did/does no crisis occur? Is it that Britain is GP #1 and Germany only #3? (We are playing with HPM.)