NOT A BUG: Strange Finland DOW event

[King]

Re: Strange Finland DOW event

Originally posted by Emerson
Was just playing a game as Japan where the Sovs went after Finland and the allies DOW'd the Commies. This occurred prior to the Allies ever DOW'ing Germany (they didn't go to war when Germany took Poland and Czech is still neutral).

However, a few months later, the USSR sues for peace w/ Finland; however, the allies remain at war with the Sovs. Now it's 1941 and the axis is the only faction at peace having taken Poland and no more (Czech still free). Very bizarre - should this be happening? I'm probably going to have to restart the game a a few years back as it has really screwed up the sequence of events.

The honest answer is that the deginers hoped that things like this would happen, just not very often. I think what will of happened is that the allies are in alliance with Finland and then comes the historical winter war events (which are hard coded to give the game engine a little shove in the direction of reality). There is not a lto that can be done here so I mark this not a bug. How if enough of you feel that strange games are happening too often, can can nail it down to a single cause (like the winter war events) then I can get a few changes made.

 

[King]

Originally posted by Emerson
King, just a note on this, the allies never brought Finland into their alliance. Therefore, Finland was able to make peace w/ the Sovs without it impacting the DOW situation b/w the Comintern and Allies. To me, this aspect of the situation does seem like a bug (Finland should join the Allies).

However, I recognize that the allies backing up the Finns is working as I designed and I'm fine with that.

Well hold there a minute if the Finns are the not part of the Allies then should not be happening. Historically the Allies left Finland to its fate because Germany was the seen to be the bigger threat. I know the allies hard coded to help democracies that are attacked, but I thought that was only if they were attacked by facists powers I will need to make a few enquires here. We may have a bug here after all.