repairing the Japanese fleet?

[poweraxe]

After getting Japan into the Entente, I used their fleet to fight the German Far East fleet. I won the battle, but some of the ships in the fleet were damaged. I returned them to port but found that I was not allowed to enact repairs on the Japanese ships.

Is there any way to repair the Japanese ships if they're damaged?

[calvinus]

Are the repair buttons grayed out? If yes, what does say the toolitp?
Is the fleet in Japanese port?

Edit: also, I'm not sure 100%, but maybe only major powers can repair ships, because they have a budget.

[calvinus]

Edit: also, I'm not sure 100%, but maybe only major powers can repair ships, because they have a budget.

Confirmed. Minor nations cannot repair ships.
See Modding\DBs\ProductionCosts.xls DB, rows RE1-RE3 for Minors: -1 (not allowed).

[poweraxe]

Thanks, that answers my question. It's not a big problem I suppose, as the Japanese fleet+the allied ships in the region can generally defeat the much smaller German fleet in the far east anyway.

[calvinus]

It can be "corrected" by modding the values for "Minors" in ProductionCosts.xls DB (and saving in CSV format in the proper directory, of course)...