SOY4 RULES

General rules:
1. No pausing, unless for spanish civil war or Japan declaring on China
2. No Coups or Boosting another nation against their will
3. Majors must stay their historical ideology
4. No spiking tension unnecessarily (E.G. Justifying on a random country)
5. May only send volunteers to one nation at a time
6. No tank division volunteers to Spain and no volunteers to the Sino-Japanese war
7. No mass releasing puppets; limited to one per year (Exception: Japan may release Cambodia and Laos for a player Siam to take and form their formable nation)
8. Cannot release puppets in an active warzone
9. Cannot request people’s land without prior consent
10. Must maintain starting factions with the exception that Japan can disband their faction and join the Axis
11. No deleting factories with the exception of removing dockyards as a minor to make space once you have run out of building slots.
12. No justifying outside of national focus or if you have cores and claims before Danzig or war,1940, or 100% world tension.
13. Cannot Join factions until 1938
14. Do not abuse exploits (ask the host if unsure of what is an exploit)
15. No disbanding or changing templates of divisions that are encircled, about to be encircled or being attacked while being transported at sea.
16. Cannot spawn divisions in a province that is under attack, or being moved into by the enemy
17. No air wing size below 100 unless it is air volunteers, carriers, or if you have less than 100 planes
18. Cannot put your navy on do not engage unless retreating from a lost naval battle
19. Cannot Naval invade with volunteer units unless the enemy has no navy
20. Cannot Naval invade from territory that is neutral to the country you are attacking
21. No nukes allowed until July 1944
22. Cannot use Submarine 4s
23. Cannot put mines around territory that is not at war with you
24. Nations with default focus trees cannot use Kamikazes
25. If an enemy capital is encircled and no enemy player units are in the capital you must take it 26. Paratroopers must be at least 10 width to paradrop
27. No deleting naval order after launching invasion
28. No strat bomber 2+
29. Cannot use the continuous focus “Air Production”

Axis rules:
1. Germany cannot guarantee or ally Finland if they sign the Molotov pact until after the Winter war
2. Italy must finish the war with Ethiopia by January of 1937 or else any nation is allowed to support them.
3. Spain cannot join a faction during the civil war
4. Spain cannot join the axis until Germany does the “Befriend Spain focus” or their post civil war spirit expires
5. Japan must declare war on China before 1st January 1938
6. Japan can only Kamikaze in Sea of Japan, Coast of Japan, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea

Comintern rules:
1. USSR cannot lend-lease China or PRC prior to Sino Japanese War
2. USSR cannot strat bomb Japanese ports in China, because interception is broken
3. USSR must accept concessions with Finland if Finland is a player and the Molotov Pact is signed and have to accept the event immediately

Allied rules:
1. Cannot guarantee Portugal or call them into the allies if there is no Spain player
2. Cannot accept China, or any other Chinese minors into the faction unless the Allies are at war with Japan
3. Cannot give China naval docking rights to convoy raid Japan
4. The USA cannot join the allies/lend-lease/send volunteers until 1941
5. The USA cannot declare war on Japan until July 1941
6. Mexico must join the allies
7. Brazil and Mexico cannot call the US into any war until the US has joined the allies
8. Only the UK is allowed in France before France capitulates