moretrim
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3 years ago A player option to refuse could be added, with a Free Allied Cores casus belli awarded to UK, although it is very unlikely to be successful if the UK acts on this casus belli.
On that note, it may worth trying if the attacker_goal subcommand can support both a target and a state_province_id. This is what ensures that a war targets a specific state, Northern Malaya in this case:
This is what ensures that a war acts on behalf of a specific country:
That is, in the above the European is declaring on Egypt to liberate Ottoman cores. Same as if they had selected the Ottoman Empire in the list of valid liberation targets.
So for a CB like Free Allied Cores (or Free Peoples) that targets a state on behalf of a country, why not try the following:
war = {
target = EGY
attacker_goal = {
casus_belli = free_peoples
state_province_id = 1391
country = TUR
}
}Which, of course, is attempting to liberate Northern Malaya from Egypt on behalf of the Ottomans. I’ll give it a whirl and report back (though perhaps with a more reasonable target).
rogerburks
In regular HFM, Hudson's Bay Company annexes into Canada in event
44321, The Rupert's Land Act (Canada side). This happens even if Hudson's Bay Company is the player, without player protection or notification:https://github.com/moretrim/ccHFM/blob/e0ee2ed03ffa2458f2d42c1409e7e7bba49dcd7a/ccHFM/events/CANFlavor.txt#L1441-L1449
There are a few ways to address this. A player option to refuse could be added, with a Free Allied Cores casus belli awarded to UK, although it is very unlikely to be successful if the UK acts on this casus belli. This is therefore of questionable value, but could be added later, as Canadian flavor.
There was an American offer to purchase the territory controlled by the Company in 1869, but this seems to be a separate topic that is again best addressed as Canadian and/or American flavor.
A simpler alternative is to alter the event to switch the player's tag from Hudson's Bay Company to Canada in this event, and this is what I have chosen. This opens a route for starting as Hudson's Bay Company with the intent of playing onward as Canada.
It leaves closed the route for successful resistance and playing onward as Rupert's Land. The latter option does seem exciting and interesting, but I suggest that it should be a separate issue, together with additional flavor for the Hudson's Bay Company/Rupert's Land and Canada.