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Each time I try the general war 1939 - 194 . . .

The event pool runs out and doesn't replenish and the Soviets only get to grab 2, maybe 3 of the 5 (Bessarabia, Karelia, Baltics).
Tend to end up with an eastern war on a narrow front, with no Mediterranean / Balkan theatre.

Slider at the top if use mouse

The option to claim an area only came up three times on that run; Bessarabia, Karelia and Estonia, then . . . Had another run and this time ; Bessarabia, Karelia, and then . . . And why no option for the USSR to declare war if those options don't happen before Barbarossa ? But there are advantages t...

First if you try to speed through the quieter 'phoney war periods' and check the skip voluntary unit loss and skip the declaration of war it is quite easy to 'overshoot' and realise you've missed the month that you intended to declare war. Second, on my last 'run' for the first time as the Soviets I...

1939 - 1940 scenario (Solo) As Poland falls Mussolini throws in with the Allies and we have a second (Alpine) front with the BEF, the French Armee Des Alpes and the Italians threatening Munich. Probably over-reacted as the 'evil empire' and threw too much at that front abandoning the invasions of De...

Translating a board game to online probably works best where a player can complete a full move with little or no intervention by their opponent. My, very limited, experience of playing Unconditional Surrender online has been of a game where there are a lot of interactive phases within a move that sl...

Thank you, I shall look at that.

Another test and repeatedly being pushed back. British / Canadian forces evacuate, US bottled up in Cherbourg peninsula. If the Brits land at the East end of the Normany area they have the option to attack Le Havre to the East or not. Success means no mulberry port option and the historic 'path' wou...

I've had several games of the 1944 - 45 scenario. I have worked out how to do the D Day invasion. I do find it quite easy to thwart my allied plans as the Germans and either push the allies back into the sea or leave them bottled up in the Cherbourg Peninsula. Perhaps 2 times in 5 I have achieved th...

Clunky: Based solely on playing the 1944-1945 scenario, playing as the Soviets or as the Reich is relatively easy. Playing as the Allies supply gets complicated. Is there just not quite enough supply, so pick where your shortage is going to be ? Is there some easy solution like get the convoy units ...