3-country battles not working properly

Phillip Bosley wrote:

In my game as Norway in HWW, I was attacking Lithuania. Germany, who I have share map with, decided to be a **** by trying to swoop in and take Kaunas with his HT. He had weakened the Lithuanian stack by the time I noticed, but his HT did little damage to unarmored that it would take him a few more iterations to destroy the Lithuanian stack, which had about 10 HP still left. So, I ordered my stack, which did 20 damage to unarmored, to attack the stack. I got there in plenty of time and oneshot the Lithuania stack, but the game gave the city to Germany instead of me. My understanding was that the player who deals the last blow (i.e. kills the stack) gets the city, but that isn't what happened here. Did they change this mechanic recently? Or is this a bug?

and it really makes angry to germany , as germany when you want something from small ones they say I will open a new game I wont give anything LOL , why germany should allow you to stay alive ?? he can send planes and norway is dead

he can basically create coalition with soviets , usa , france , uk , japan and win game easily if he wont go solo , what is value of norway here if he try to steal cities from germany ?

This subject is one of the big mysteries of CoW. In the time before AI provinces remained contested during the player peace period, it was studied extensively by the tournament community, but the results were inconclusive. It appeared as if there was a weighted random factor involved, possibly related to the amount of damage that the various players had inflicted upon the defending stack, but that was (due to the random factor) very hard to substantiate. Furthermore, since this mechanic has since been changed (province aren't rewarded to one of the players during player peace period anymore), it is possible that this perceived random factor was changed as well. In short, it remains a mystery, but possibkly @freezy can shed some light here?