They’re allies with each other and neutral territories are all neutral friendly. The server still doesn’t recognize that quite right, though. Sometimes they’ll take, say Saudi Arabia and control the territory, but there’ll still be 2 neutral troops sitting on there, so you have to change those to the controlling countries’. And despite Finland and Bulgaria being unfriendly neutral, it’ll activate those troops, so you have to delete them and also roll dice to determine how many you’d have also lost in taking it. By a weird quirk it treats the Allies as Axis, so Japan and Italy get all their bonuses. Italy’s bonus would be convenient, since he only collects it once and it would go straight to my coffers. But Japan’s bonus is annoying; he gets 25 bucks he doesn’t deserve each round - practically twice his base income, so that also needs to be routinely corrected. Occasionally, one of the powers will declare war on each other at the most inopportune time for them to do so, like Russia doing it on Japan with Japanese troops uncontested in 2/3 of its territory. His income immediately drops to half and all of his and Japan’s troops are distracted for a turn. When you have control again, reset the diplomacy, return whichever territories to their original owner, and fix each country’s economy, but there’s nothing you can do about their troop movements. And yes, I’ve been playing on hard, but based on Wild Bill’s experience, I might experiment with fast.
