Very interesting house rule, I like its simplicity, however, I can’t say that I am in favor of giving the Allies any more “benefits” if the Axis are static. Many of us are intelligent amateur historians, but I find that game play has been taking a back seat to historical accuracy in most of these forum discussions.
A perfect example of this is the new infamous bombing raid rules, before the 1940 releases, I saw some house rule posts here suggesting that for the sake of “historic accuracy” there should be interceptors and escorts during bombing raids. Larry listened and vola, a perfectly balanced game mechanic became nothing more than a full page explanation in the rule book.
Since than it has been a major problem for my groups because some want to make new house rules, some want to go to the old classic rules and some want to play strictly by the book (which translates to no bombing raids).
My point is, ya the french are under represented, but not as much as previous games when the blue guys didn’t even exist. We could talk about the hundreds of Canadian frigates in the Atlantic, or the Courageous Polish Calvary, or if you really want historic accuracy, we could give Germany an economic NO boost for using millions of Jews for slave labour.
I just believe that solving the game play issues is more important right now than solving the historic accuracy issues.