Non-belligerent alliance between Japan in Germany

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1.01 patch

Playing Germany. Japan has been at war with Nationalist China and Netherlands.

Axis (me, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Nationalist Spain, Yugoslavia... NOT yet Japan) at War with the Allies (entire UK group + USA), which does not include Netherlands.

I declare war on Netherlands. Netherlands immediately joins Allies.

A few months later, I control the Dutch continental territories. 2 key cities in East Indies remaining, i'm just waiting for Japan to take them but they never do.

Japan joins Axis while we're still both at war with the Netherlands. Now we're both at war with Netherlands as Axis co-belligerents... but NOT at war with our previous enemies. Japan is not at war with the Allies, except for Netherlands. And I'm not at war with the Nationalist Chinese. If I knew this was gonna happen, I wouldn't have asked them to join me. I wanted them to join the Axis to keep the USA busy in the Pacific.

After I saved game at one point, I just decided to see what would happen if I declared war on the USSR. Japan joined the war against the entire Comintern group, but still not at war with Allies, except for the Netherlands.

 

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Japan seems to have problems getting motivated to take the Dutch East Indies. See my "hands off" AAR over in the AAR forum - in my game, they actually started taking Dutch provinces, but then forgot about them - the provinces in question, however, were totally undefended, and Japan could have marched right through them with no problem. Instead they invaded India

 

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Originally posted by Earwicker
Japan seems to have problems getting motivated to take the Dutch East Indies. See my "hands off" AAR over in the AAR forum - in my game, they actually started taking Dutch provinces, but then forgot about them - the provinces in question, however, were totally undefended, and Japan could have marched right through them with no problem. Instead they invaded India

I've seem a 1/2 dozen games wher AI Japan fails to persecute the war vs. Netherlands.

I still think there needs to be an event A) attack China; B attack Nrtherlands after the Election for Japn in if Elect Right happens.