@axis-dominion I’m probably somewhat fuzzy on some of the earlier game.
But I think I should have been ready for the neutral crush. I did not expect that at all (and too the point that when I first saw the dice in Turkey and Spain, I was assuming that I was getting dice from another game). That might have been the game deciding moment there.
After that, I think I made a mistake in splitting the Soviet forces. I think I should have put more focus on holding the Caucasus rather than putting pressure on Germany in Eastern Europe. It may be that there wasn’t much I could do here since I also had to protect Moscow from the West but I think if I could have kept you stuck in Turkey/NWP for longer that the Germans and Italian incomes would have been more contained, India would have been more protected, and you would have had a bit more difficulty managing pressure from both sides. And also later, I’m not sure if I benefited from having the Soviet stacks separated since it allowed you to keep me boxed in with a smaller German force. And then I think your earlier comment about India was also right.
There were other silly mistakes. The factory in Chile, or that last move with the carriers off Samoa (didn’t judge your air movement right and in any case it was unnecessary for what I wanted to do, but I think the above were the ones that decided the game.
But it was a lot of fun. I always enjoy struggling with hopeless positions. And as @JDOW notes, this game was a weird setup at the end. Italy’s strength was one thing but the significant German/Italian fleet in the Pacific was another. I also have never had to give so much thought to the role of Samoa, and the line islands to the maneuvering in that part of the pacific.