I startet with HoI3 last week and try to be a "good" guy as German, much politic and spy action.
I can't start yet to attack the soviets they have like 450Div. on my border and would stomp me to the ground but the USA will son join the axis .
Oh and Japan took Finland i didn't belive my eye's when they landed there.
You need the Semper Fi Addon. This addon will set ties to the factions by adding lots of new events. It will prevent Japan from conquering finland, and prevent other weird things from happening. Flaws like the scandinavian mischief.
Still, I was very unhappy with Semper Fi. I played with Netherlands for once and though there are lot of improvements, Japan stayed totally passive this time, not attacking China or the US. Was a walk-over for the US, as Spain and Portugal had joined axis in the late game. Took them 6 month to reach Berlin after they invaded at the spanish atlantic coast. Simultaneously they rolled up Africa. Unfortunately they did nothing to push Germany out of Scandinavia and England. Thus the germans were not dead but made excessive use of naval warfare from the British Islands. On top of that the game does not relocate capitals properly, so after Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam had been liberated, all resources were still shipped out of europe to secondary capitals in Africa, America or Asia. Which, of course was a golden opportunity for the german fleet in England. Took them a few weeks and my economy in liberated Netherlands was on its knees. Several hundred cargo ships had been sunk, leaving me unable to do anything.