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Most Holy wrote:I have to agree with USSR vs. Japan. Japan should have the option of opening up this front with the Mongolian penalty but USSR should ne'er be able to attack them unprovoked.

No, that makes too much sense.

There is an entire thread you can go through to look for ideas, its the 'Alpha 1' thread. Read it.

No idea, I own both copies and so have always played Global, never at the theatre level.

I agree IL, this points to the best 'fix' for the pacific, if Japan cannot compete it might be best just to reduce allied NO's rather than fix the Japanese ones.

except he's already got gobs of inf and needs arty to support the ones' he starts with.

As edfactor pointed out Russia starts with almost all infantry. My best barbarossa defenses have been when I have built more arty than inf in the initial rounds. Trying to get around a 2-1 ratio of inf to arty will help you in your strafe attacks as the Germans approach Moscow. Don't be afraid to fa...

actually numbering the areas would be great. Very easy to tell a 1 from a 3 or a 8. I also have been known to do the setup with one person sitting by the computer calling out the totals while another places units on the board...but when we get to China there is always confusion as to which one gets ...

I think what he did was use the Japanese names for the areas, but that's just a guess. Not really sure where all these Kwang names came from, I've never seen them on a map.