surprise attack event does not fire

[poweraxe]

While playing a 1936 GC in 1.04 as the USA, Japan declared war on me on November '41, but there was no Pearl Harbor surprise attack event. I checked the events file(hoi2.txt) to look at what triggers the event:

trigger = {
		war = { country = JAP country = USA }
		under_attack = USA
	}

        date = { day = 0 month = january year = 1939 }
        offset = 1
	deathdate = { day = 29 month = december year = 1945 }

It seems to me that the event should have fired (as I am at war with Japan and they have attacked me several times at sea and on the Philippines), but it did not.

 

[Blecky]

While playing a 1936 GC in 1.04 as the USA, Japan declared war on me on November '41, but there was no Pearl Harbor surprise attack event. I checked the events file(hoi2.txt) to look at what triggers the event:

trigger = {
		war = { country = JAP country = USA }
		under_attack = USA
	}

        date = { day = 0 month = january year = 1939 }
        offset = 1
	deathdate = { day = 29 month = december year = 1945 }

It seems to me that the event should have fired (as I am at war with Japan and they have attacked me several times at sea and on the Philippines), but it did not.

IIRC this is a random event; there´s always the chance that JAP is not going to carry out the surprise attack.

 

[poweraxe]

I've checked the event again, and the event is not random(random = no) Only the event choice is random, not wheter the event fires or not. So even if they choose not to carry out the attack the event still has to fire, which did not happen.

 

[Blecky]

I've checked the event again, and the event is not random(random = no) Only the event choice is random, not wheter the event fires or not. So even if they choose not to carry out the attack the event still has to fire, which did not happen.

How will you notice they´ve chosen the "No" option? Will there be a message in the log? If not you won´t know whether the event really fired or not.

 

[poweraxe]

How will you notice they´ve chosen the "No" option? Will there be a message in the log? If not you won´t know whether the event really fired or not.

I've set it so that I get a message box as well as a message in the log when an historical event happens to another country, so I should be able so know when the event fires.

EDIT: I got the event to fire normally by removing the under_attack = USA line. I guess that command is not working as intended.