I'm playing Qing China. Until 1945, I've successfully held off Japan and the Chinese United Front and expanded to control the northeastern portion of the country. China pushes back against the last bastion of Japan on Chinese soil, and the Japanese surrender event fires for me. It fires for me. Japan still holds some Chinese provinces, but no full states. Because the text of the surrender states that Japan will "give up on the continent completely", I accept. I am no longer at war with Japan, but China still is. I wait months for China to take Shanghai, Japan's last occupied province.
Eventually I get sick of waiting, and decide to just hurry up and conquer China. I proceed to isolate the Japanese in Shanghai where they can't advance through my territory, and then take the rest of China myself, forcing the Chinese United Front to capitulate.
I am not Japan's ally, and I control all of China except for the single province (not state!) of Shanghai. But for some reason, I'm forced into a "peace conference" alongside countries I am not allied with, to carve up land that I took myself with no outside assistance. Is this fair? Is it reasonable? Why should Emperor Aisin Gioro Puyi, the Son of Heaven, be forced to yield freshly conquered Chinese soil to the foreign invader who wasn't strong enough to take it?
After the peace conference, naturally, the borders are a complete mess. What's worse is that the Allies are now taking Chinese land off Japan. This has basically killed my desire to take this campaign any further.
TLDR: The Japanese surrender event must actually force Japan out of China, instead of merely ending their war against one Chinese state. I would never have accepted their surrender if I had known it would result in this horrible outcome. I don't have a backup save, this was an ironman game that's now ruined.
Eventually I get sick of waiting, and decide to just hurry up and conquer China. I proceed to isolate the Japanese in Shanghai where they can't advance through my territory, and then take the rest of China myself, forcing the Chinese United Front to capitulate.
I am not Japan's ally, and I control all of China except for the single province (not state!) of Shanghai. But for some reason, I'm forced into a "peace conference" alongside countries I am not allied with, to carve up land that I took myself with no outside assistance. Is this fair? Is it reasonable? Why should Emperor Aisin Gioro Puyi, the Son of Heaven, be forced to yield freshly conquered Chinese soil to the foreign invader who wasn't strong enough to take it?
After the peace conference, naturally, the borders are a complete mess. What's worse is that the Allies are now taking Chinese land off Japan. This has basically killed my desire to take this campaign any further.
TLDR: The Japanese surrender event must actually force Japan out of China, instead of merely ending their war against one Chinese state. I would never have accepted their surrender if I had known it would result in this horrible outcome. I don't have a backup save, this was an ironman game that's now ruined.
