And with three factions in game, there's usually two wars to settle everything in favor of just one faction, so anticipating that second war is one of the things to keep in mind in the first big peace conference. After all, it's likely to be your ally in the next war (assuming you're democratic, that is). Since one of the things you can demand in a peace conference is a change in government, you might well be happy to have that (say) ex-fascist, now democratic, nation spending its warscore to rebuild, rather than using yours. It's not uncommon for a player to get more points in later rounds of a peace conference simply because their allies end their participation. Many small nations have little to demand, or not enough points to achieve their ambitions. If they didn't get to participate, you'd never see losers reappear. After all, wars end when you force all the enemy governments into exile. Not really tamed, invaded Afghanistan the following year.Д¬lick to expand.If a state has war score, it's in the peace conference. So, depending on your faction and / or allies, you may have to steer the peace settlement to an appropriate result. Finland blocked from claiming all Soviet lands, Mussolini put in his place, Soviet Union still in existence, but tamed. 'Puppeted' Greece and claimed a little more Russian territory. Went back to my Soviet Union capitulated, but before peace conference save. Peace conference complete I found the Italians had claimed Greece (despite Metaxas being effectively a right wing dictator Greece had allied with the Soviet Union) and Finland had claimed the rest of Russian territory all the way to the Pacific. This would leave a Russian / Finnish border. I chose only to take Russia to a line from Astrakhan to just east of Moscow and just west of Arkangelsk. Playing as Germany when the Soviet Union capitulated I gave a couple of provinces that had been Romanian back to Romania and gave a chunk of North Western Russia to Finland. Then go back to the save and do it 'for real'. Try different purchases, or different strategies with passing and saving up score to spend in a big burst later, to get a feel for how it works. You may want to take advantage of that by experimenting with one conference. The game auto-saves before peace conferences (or at least it did in v1.1). The war ends, so certain National Focus conditions may stop being true. Claimed provinces become home territory for the new owner, so problems like resistance or reduced factory output go away. There's also a way to spend your war score on behalf of other countries - say, if you wanted to use your political influence to build up one of those new nations, or one of your allies.ДЄfter all countries have declared they're done with the process, the peace conference is over. You can also do things like puppet countries or create new countries from parts of old ones (like West and East Germany, historically). But the drawback to passing is that other countries are acting, and so might take some province that you want.Д¬laiming provinces isn't the only possible result. This is one reason you might pass, to accumulate a bigger difference and be able to make more extensive changes at once. So, if #1 and #2 in war score order are close, and then there's a big gap until #3, #1 can spend only a little in the first turn, while #2 will be able to spend more, due to the large gap between #2 and #3. You can only spend the difference between your score and your next rival, which is probably one of your allies. When you're spending war score, you don't get to spend all of it in one turn. Or if you're happy with what you have, you can end your participation in making demands, which means you give the rest of your war score to your allies to spend. You can pass on your turn if you like, which gets you a little bonus for next turn. The victors in the war will generally have more points, and so be able to choose many results the way they want, but the losers also usually have some war score, and can demand their own concessions (which in the case of complete conquest usually takes the form of buying back some of their core territory). When the peace conference starts, all the countries, including the losers, take turns spending their war score on their objectives. While normally you don't want to have more casualties, you can see how that would increase your political stake in the outcome and cause leaders to demand more.) For example, casualties increase your war score. (That's not quite the same thing as how well you did. Everyone fighting in a war accumulates 'war score', a measure of how much you put into the war.

Hearts of iron 4 peace conference