@MEGAEINSTEIN:
the main issues should not be about balancing the game but about making the game as historical as possible.
by the way, i lose what?
Bah. Historically, the Axis pretty much dropped the ball already at the beginning of the game. They could have captured the entire BEF at Dunkirk and made a Sealion attack a possibility through capturing Gibraltar via an invasion of Spain. Some things I’d like to see as house rules for a historical version:
Pro-Axis or Not-Really-Neutral-Special-Case Spain.
The UK gets like 3x as many boats as it has already on the board at game start.
Russian peace with European Axis can hold on indefinitely until the Germans capture London or Washington.
The Russians can mass conscript like 5-10 INF a turn for free once at war with the Axis.
Italy starts out neutral with the UK (maybe, depends on time frame of game start, it was definitely before the fall of Paris).
US cannot enter the war without an unprovoked Axis attack.
When the US does enter the war, it gets triple income plus NO bonuses.
Yeah. Not that any of these ideas are very fair, but it makes the game more historical. I guess.