Japan Dummy Events (surrendering to USA)??

[SittingDuck]

Can you please explain why you'd have Japan surrender to a neutral or defeated USA?

I am talking about dummy events DE 854 & 855. I get that the trigger is Japanese NM is below 1%, but why the surrender to a neutral or defeated country?

[BillRunacre]

Hi

It doesn't surrender to the USA in those circumstances, those are just the trigger conditions for the dummy Decision to then trigger relevant Surrender_2 scripts, and when the US is neutral or surrendered, the surrender would be to the UK, providing the UK has not itself surrendered.

These are the patch notes for reference:

Added dummy Decision Events triggering Surrender scripts so that if the National Morale of Japan, the UK or China fall below 1% then they should surrender to USA/UK, Germany and Japan respectively. Japan would surrender to the USA unless it is still neutral or it has surrendered, in which case Japan would surrender to the UK. Normal surrender rules still apply for other circumstances. The dummy Decision Events are DE 158; DE 853; DE 854; DE 855; DE 902; DE 903 (Mercutio).

[SittingDuck]

Excellent explanation, Bill. Thank you.

I got lazy and forgot to search for those two decisions in other files.