Best way to determine victory

VC is boring….crush Russia or crush Berlin…make it simple…somebody will surrender!

Soviet Union conquers Berlin without losing Moscow to Japan.

Do you mean a landing in Caucasus? Or landings around the med in general?

Neither should really be a big problem, Caucasus should be covered (over land) by taking (and retaking) Ukraine (and W.Russia) as Russia. Land your planes in Caucasus and build enough units there to be sure.
Landings in Africa / Middle East are abit of a pain, but should be fixable in a few turns with some US help (and those are germans not going to Russia)

If you have the A&A Spring 1942 board and can leave it set up you could play right here in these forums i believe.  there is a forum dice roller that works well.  Im down to play that way if you want send me a message.  ( I cant install anything on my work computer so i cant do the Triple A games unfortunately)

There is no “best” land unit. There are land units with different uses.

-When you want to defend actively, you want mostly infantry while having some attack units (which one depends on the kind of front that you are defending) to stop your opponent from going forward with a big stack.
-When you are all-out defense you want only infantry.
-When you are attacking you want a mix of attacking units and infantry, yes an attack as a bigger win% with the right mix of inf/tanks then with just tanks (there was a very nice post earlier explaining this for people who’d doubt).
-When you are all-out attacking well yes you’d want only tanks the only right scenario for that is blitzing Russia early with Germany and it necessites some prerequisites to be a fine option (in my own opinion, I know a good player who doesn’t agree with me there, depends on the play style I guess)

So in a nutshell, the most needed unit is definitely the infantry, but I wouldn’t say it is the “best” unit because it seems too much of a specific case question (although if you’d tell me that you’ll give me 20 bucks just to shut up and answer the question, I’d go with infantry).

Germany, South Europe, West Europe, Finland-Norway, East Europe, Ukraine, Cacauses, Algeria, Libya, Ango Egypt-Sudan, French West Africa, French Equatorial Africa,  East Italian Africa, Belgian Congo, Kenya Rhodensia, South Africa, Japan, Machuria, Kwangtaung, French Indo China, Phillipines, Okinawa, East Indies, Borneo, New Guneia, Australia, New Zealand, China, Singkiang, Soviet Far East, Karelia, Hawaii, Yakutsk

Way to easy.

I don’t see any problem applying the individual victory rules from Revised to 1942.  However, I agree with Tekkyy that it’s probably better done later on.  I also believe that the individual victory rules from Classic are better.  In those rules, the individual winner is the player that increases his/her IPC total by the highest percentage, rather than by the highest number.

The spreadsheet comparing the Revised and Anniversary rules can be found here as well.  As Tekkyy mentioned, there are only very small differences between the Anniversary rules (though you also need to read the errata) and the 1942 rules, once you get past the absence of Italy and China as separate powers.

That’s the beauty of these games: House rules!