@Lynxes:
On IPC values in -41 scenario:
Germany 30 (+ 4 IPC worth of Russia taken turn 1)
Soviet Union 30 (- 4 IPC worth lost on turn 1)
Japan 17 (+5 bonus, plus 13 IPCs taken turn 1)
UK 42 (minus Hong-kong, Burma, NEI, Borneo 11 IPCs lost on turn 1)
Italy 10 (+5 bonus)
US/China 45 (minus Phillippines 2 IPCs lost on turn 1)
I assume only the confirmed IPC bonuses of “no enemy ships in Med” worth Italy 5 IPCs and “Japan takes historical islands and holds at start territories” 5? IPCs.
Turn 2 would be around (assuming Germany taking Baltics, East P and Ukraine, Japan NEI, Borneo, Hong-Kong, Phil. and Burma, and the Allies not having any ships in Med):
Germany 34
Soviet Union 26
Japan 35
UK 31
Italy 15
US 43 + 9 IPCs worth of free China inf
Allies: 109, Axis: 84, compared to AAR: Allies 96, Axis 70.
Ratio: AA50 1.30 in Allied favour, AAR 1.37 in Allied favour.
Hmm, if that Japanese figure is anywhere near accurate, I will be doubling the IPC production of the US, and still adding Lend-Lease rolls for the UK and Russia.
Japanese production greater than the UK is so totally ridiculous that it is laughable, and also not to be allowed. The US Strategic Bombing Survey, Pacific Analysis Division, put the size of the Japanese wartime economy at one-tenth of the United States, and that included Manchurian and Korean production. Using that criteria, if the US is 45, the Japanese should be 4 or 5. If you give the Japanese the initial value of 17, then the US should be valued at 170. Hmm, now that would be an interesting value to use. Take Japan and multiply by 10 to get the US. Have to give that some thought.