Question-Neurality Status & New Nations?

[sabretwo]

After several weeks of working on the improved med campaign, I am getting the hang of scripting task force, aircraft, and random ship activity pretty good. But there are a few items that have me lost and I can't find much documentation on them:

1. How does the campaign recognize the dates that countries change their friendly, neutral, and enemy status?

2. Is it possible to create new countries with defined 'neutral' status to represent special circumstances? For example, I haven't run any tests on this yet, but I am assuming that during 1942 while Greece is under Axis occupation that vessels traveling under Greek flag are considered enemy (I am assuming this based on the enemy status of Greek warships in Alexandria and the lack of scripted Greek ships in Greek ports in 1942 GWX.) Is there a way to create a 'neutral' Greek faction with Greek flag to represent the coastal vessels and fishing boats that would have been in Greek ports and traveling along the coast of Greece under Axis occupation? (I can't find specific references or proof, but I am pretty sure that Greek commercial vessels would have kept their Greek flag during occupation. Same for the Croatians.)

Likewise, I'd like to create a 'neutral' Italy with Italian flag to use with vessels interned by neutral and allied countries (like the Olterra in Spain). If I make the Olterra an Italian ship, despite its interned status in a neutral harbour, its going to get bombed every time a British plane flies overhead.

3. Any tips from you Veteran campaign scripters on ways to get close to the action to view your scripted actions without wasting tons of time starting new campaigns and navigating a U-boat to the right location, date and time? I am loosing a lot of productivity just testing scripted battles and harbour changes.

I hope none of these questions sound too stupid. I am still new to campaign scripting and although I'm making good progress, I still feel like a newbie in understanding how all of the elements work.

Thanks in advance!