Volunteers and Expeditionary Forces

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Volunteers and Expeditionary Forces are ways of sending soldiers to Wars, or aiding Allies, without having to be a part of the War.

Volunteers[edit]

Sending Volunteers to the Spanish Civil War as Germany

Sending Volunteers is a way to send Units to Wars you are not a directly fighting in, like a proxy war. It is a great way to gain Experience in the years before major wars break out. You can only send Volunteers if you aren’t at war yourself. You control these units yourself.

As it is likely the Spanish Civil War will break out, this is a way for the player to influence who will win the war. The amount of Volunteers you can send depends on the size of the recieiving Country, and some nations may be able to send larger forces.

It takes 2 weeks for a Volunteer force to be transferred back or forth, and they are automatically sent home if you end up in a war yourself. The ability to send Volunteers is limited by Ideology and World Tension, where Fascists can do it whenever they like, while Democracies are fairly limited. France has an ability to do it earlier.

Sending Volunteers will increase World Tension.

Expeditionary Forces[edit]

Sending Expeditionary Forces is a way to hand over your troops to allies in war. It is useful if you don’t want to control them, or if AI wants to fight in your theater and thinks you’ll do a better job than it. They can be handed over at any time, but AI will usually ship them to you as well.