Slowly working out Conferences

[leemonk]

Hi,

I managed to predict a conference this time around and had a save just before and as we entered the conference. Thus I have been able to play around.

I want to check a few things and then ask for advice on other things.

1. Democracies can not 'puppet'. Is this correct? (I play as UK).
2. Assuming the above is correct. Would any of the 'Intervention' national focuses allow me to puppet the Scandinavian and Benelux regions or would it simply allow me to justify a war goal?
3. When the conference starts I am at the top of the list which would suggest that I had the highest involvement, however a number of countries I capitulated had already been turned by USSR, with Japan being the key one. No other nation attacked Japan (their home country) (axis at the time) yet they were puppeted by USSR. Thus can I assume that I was not top and I simply see 'my turn' at the start of the conference?
4. Advice here. I managed to change the government of Italy. I took all of their provinces. The following round I was able to invite them into the Allies. Thus I now have Rome as an ally with me controlling the rest of their country. In this scenario, what is best? Should I keep the country and use their resources and factories or, seeing as they in the allies, give it all back?

Regards

 

[Sambap]

1. Democracies cannot by default.
2. Democracies can puppet if they have a puppet wargoal on a surrendering nation, such as the USA to Japan.
3. Other nations with more participation take their turns prior to you seeing the conference, you skip ahead in the conference to your turn.
4. I personally would return it, but I like pretty borders. A human player will always utilize factories better than an AI.

 

[cyklic]

About no.2, you might wanna watch out if your war gets combined with another war though. As USA I joined the allies but didn't join their war because I wanted to use the puppet war goal. I then declared war on Japan, which was part of the Axis and was already at war with the Allies. My war naturally got combined with the ongoing one, and at the end, I couldn't puppet Japan.

 

[RforRush]

Also democracies can puppet when they annex country and then use Manage occupied territories -> Release nation -> Release as puppet (need TfW DLC).

 

[browd]

When the conference starts I am at the top of the list which would suggest that I had the highest involvement, however a number of countries I capitulated had already been turned by USSR, with Japan being the key one. No other nation attacked Japan (their home country) (axis at the time) yet they were puppeted by USSR. Thus can I assume that I was not top and I simply see 'my turn' at the start of the conference?

Correct. From your description, USSR was top and made its initial selections before you were able to start making your choices. Before making your selections, you should study the right-hand side of the peace conference screen to see the choices that other players took before you (I do that on every round).