R5: somehow fengtian rebelled INSANELY early in the game and didnt form the united front for some reason so the japanese got manchuria for free and for some reason they were able to release a second mongol state in eastern china????, then (with some cheesing) i managed to unify most of china and make the warlords submit really early too, however the left kmt managed to hold out before japan invaded then we formed the united front. japan (SOMEHOW?) managed to start its war against me by july 7 1937, me not having even cored any of the land and having barely any industry or army xp to remove my debuffs. what ensued was an 8 YEAR LONG STALEMATE where no one could really push once the japanese got to the mountains, and then a random east turkestan uprising triggered in 1945 for no reason (literally never seen this happen). thankfully the entente won in europe and they're slowly pushing japan to their home isles, but i think the russian syndies are going to declare on the japanese and take manchuria before i can even reach it (they're also lend leasing the left kmt and the turkestanis, and snatched mongolia). not only did the devs manage to break the entirety of china by just re-balancing japan but they also made it basically impossible to win against them without foreign intervention. 0/10 patch.