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delaying until January 42 would not make any sense Playing the Axis, I decided to delay conquering the USSR a couple of months until January 1942 for three reasons. Most importantly, the Soviet player must make a die roll to quit the Moscow Treaty, and there is, for example, as much as a 25 % chanc...

I’ve recently played a highly interesting and enjoyable Main Event with the devoted USE player Gumers. For me, it was the first time I saw the Axis invade first France and then the USSR in the long summer of 1940. Was this a wise strategy? The game started, as so often, with Poland relying on the We...

I agree, Robert! In this case, game balance is most important. In my experience, however, the requirement in the Victory Conditions to reduce USSR National Will to 44 for an Axis victory, is slightly too harsh! 46 would, in my judgement, be most balanced. I also want to add that USE is a war board g...

The historical weather for October and November 1941 isn't entirely straightforward to determine, now that Mobile Attacks are possible neither in Poor nor Severe weather. For example, between 1 October and 15 November, Guderian's 2Pz fought its way from hex 2749 (three hexes west of Kursk) to 2453 (...