Courtenay
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ORIGINAL: rkr1958 Now another question. As I believe is the case, "USSR Japan Compulsory Peace" optional rule isn't programmed yet? After my last game I feel this rule might be an important one to enforce in MWiF. Does anyone else enforce this rule? And if so, how? By the way, I notice the wording in the RAW (see below), "... during the first war between ..." is used twice. This implies that there could be a second war between Japan and the USSR and if so that this rule no longer applies. My question is if I were to enforce a compulsory peace then under what conditions could either Japan or the Soviet Union start a second war? From the MWiF help form under optional rules - "USSR Japan Compulsory Peace [RAW option 50 section 13.7.3] This optional rule reflects the willingness of both the USSR and Japan to remain at peace with each other during WW II. Though they had been fighting a mostly unreported little war along the Manchurian border for some time prior to Germany's invasion of Poland, they both felt a lot of pressure on other fronts: from Germany for the USSR and from the USA and the Commonwealth for Japan. Agreeing to peace with each other was in both of their self-interests. If Japan controls Vladivostok during the first war between Japan and the USSR, the Japanese player must agree to a peace if the Soviet player wants one. Similarly, if the USSR controls 3 or more resources that were Japanese controlled at the start of the war, the Soviet player must agree to a peace if the Japanese player wants one. In either case, the new Russo-Japanese border is established by the hexes each controls at the time of the compulsory peace. Any pocket of non-coastal hexes wholly surrounded by hexes controlled by the other major power becomes controlled by the major power whose hexes surround them." One can impose the rule as written by hand, except for the enclosed territory changing hands. The two countries will remain at war, but just don't have each other attack each other. Also, if the USSR is at war with no other major power, only let it take combineds, and do not let it build any more militia. This is not totally correct, but I believe that this is a such an important rule, and one I always use, that I enforce it as best I can. There is a "Clarification", to the rule, actually a change, that makes the enforced peace harsher, especially against the Russians. I do not like it at all.
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