French war declaration

[thatonekid]

can france declare war on the japanese?? the only reason for doing this would be to negate the japanese NO, bt idk if the french can do this. please help.

[Krieghund]

France can declare war on Japan, but it will not affect the Japanese NO.  Only a Japanese attack on French Indo-China will do that (in regard to France, anyway).

[thatonekid]

thanks krieg  :-D

[Gargantua]

This is important to do, in the event you plan to use the french destroyer off of morocco to block any japanese attacks in the DEI region.

[shadowguidex]

To clarify - if France DW Japan, can Japan take Indochina and NOT lose the NO?

[kcdzim]

@shadowguidex:

To clarify - if France DW Japan, can Japan take Indochina and NOT lose the NO?

No.  If Japan attacks FIC, they lose the NO.

A state of war between Japan and France does not affect the NO.  Only an attack on FIC cancels it (outside of the other limiters - war with US, unprovoked war with UK/ANZAC)