@Cmdr:
Possibly my resistance to Italy being it’s own nation is previous experience with people trying to make Axis and Allies with an Italian player.
I like to think my resistance is just the fact that there are not enough territories on the map to make Italy viable. Possibly if France was divvied up into 4 territories with Germany owning the north and Italy owning the south “Vichy” area.
Also, why does Italy not start with Italian East Africa? It’s ITALIAN East Africa after all! Outside of Italy itself, you would think this would be the number two spot for Italy to start with! (Just based on the name alone.)
I don’t know. I guess things might be a bit more interesting if: Germany was worth 12 IPC, Italy was worth 8 IPC, an new territory was added to Southern France worth 3 IPC and starts Italian. This would give Italy +5 IPC (and Germany +2 which I think it needs, not to mention the extra building capacity would really help them.)
All good points. I think this was done with the expectation that there would be a sixth player for Italy there by reducing some of the pressure of the german player.
As far Italian East Africa, that territory, if history serves me, was occupied in the 30’s (maybe 35’) and the UK had already forced Italy out of there before 41’.
If you added Vichy France you would have to add French naval units and compensate for all the French colonies.
LOL…stop putting bad ideas into my head Jenn… now I’m going to have to work on this senario and I’m runnning out of playing pieces. Actually I have six other colors of A&A compatible pieces from the Eagle Games Attack! series,