If Japan can't get a warning ahead of time about the Entente intervention, maybe at least put a warning flag on the focus 'Hey this could royally piss everyone off?'Īnd if the East Indies aren't deserving of special mention, why do Phillipines and Hawaii, two far less important areas guarded by powers that are much easier to fight off, DO have special warnings and event chains? Not to mention how extremely offputting it is that Japan doesn't even get an event announcing this - they're invading the East Indies and then one day 'Netherlands has called its ally Dominion of Canada'.

It is rough that Japan's expansion to the Indies is basically a 1/3 chance of 'oops you're in the Pacific Weltkrieg'. It's a complete blindside - no other event chain I'm aware of has a faction join mid-war, and politically it doesn't make a ton of sense? That's politically equivalent to a declaration of war, and they don't have a casus belli as the Entente weren't attacked and weren't allied with the Netherlands until it's already happened.Unlike the Philipines or Hawaii joining the Reichspakt, where Germany is defeatable in the Pacific and the war can reasonably end in time for Japan thanks to the east Asian peace events, the Entente joining the Netherlands makes the war nearly impossible to win in a timely manner, and tends to be particularly destructive for Japan as it takes on Australia and the Dominion of India, let alone Canada if they start island hopping.Every other nation Japan's focuses target plays out like that, so it's currently inconsistent.

I think instead it should be part of an event chain resulting from the JAP focus that gives them a chance of joining the Entente.Įxplain the reasoning behind this change: Currently, the Netherlands join the Entente after Japan's declared war on them.

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