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I have encountered a situation where my Russian forces in Persia seem to have been attacked by Japanese troops advancing through India and yet I am not at war with them and cannot retaliate. It is a little difficult to be sure what is happening as there are Italian forces plus artillery behind the Japanese, who are at war with USSR, but I a pretty well convinced that the Japanese were attacking me as well as the Italian artillery.

Is this something that I should expect to happen - there were incidents in WW2 where troops disguised themselves as other nationalities to create provocations but I did not think the AI was that clever.

regards

Mike

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Hi Mike

There can be occasions when two Majors that aren't at war, can fight each other, and that will be when one side is on the territory of a friendly Major that the enemy Major is at war with, or on the territory of a Minor belonging to that friendly Major.

I hope that makes sense as it almost sounds like a tongue twister!

Bill

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Hi Hubert

Actually the unit was destroyed so I could not retaliate at that location and I tried whether I could attack the Japanese elsewhere and I could not so that is what I meant rather than the unit being attacked could not retaliate. I have tried it out with another approach to handling that unit and it seems I can retaliate in Persia but not against Japanese occupied teritory elsewhere.

I am not sure whether Persia had been reconquered by the Axis as I took over the game from the AI so it is possible that had happened. The place I tried out attacking the Japanese in retailation was Manchuria which was of course a Japanese occupied territory. So did this probably happen because the Axis had already liberated Persia once?

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Mike

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Actually it was a 1942 start scenario so Persia was already conquered by the SU. I assume that it would perhaps have to have been liberated at some stage during the scenario otherwise what would be the difference to me attacking Japan in Manchuria?

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Mike

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