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I As Germany, I used up all my influence on the Polish campaign. I am ready to invade the low countries and still I haven't received them back. Is that all I get for the game? And how to I influence a neutral if I don't get them back?

They accumulate over time based on production if I remember. The influence only shifts their status. I don't remember if v3 or v4 will now have popup messages on what happened.

But generally you should NOT be playing with diplomacy for WarPlan. Events are scripted to country actions and diplomacy is like adding too much salt to french fries.

I have thought the Diplomacy would be a good balancer to German aggression. Right now my strategy with the Axis is to invade early and often. I invade Netherlands on turn 2 and Belgium on turn 3. I try to take out both Yugoslavia and Greece in summer of 1940 with new German builds deployed to the border. Ideally France falls in June/July and I can take out Spain in the fall and winter and still be ready for the Soviets in the spring of 1941.

Many of these Declarations of War are done against Axis leaning powers (Yugo before the coup and Spain). These should create a big diplomacy penalty for German but does not seem to matter.

World in Flames uses US entry and accelerating US build up to balance an overly aggressive axis. I am not seeing anything that "penalizes" the axis.

Did you read the scenario notes?

There are penalties like that if the Germans do well.

Diplomacy was added in case someone wanted to use it in a game. It can work for human vs human but still. Someone gets lucky and it can imbalance the whole game.