@Faramir:
Why is there the rule that industrial complexes cannot be built on islands, even if the island meets the IPC requirements? You should at least be allowed to build minor ICs on islands.
I used to follow the alpha discussion on the designers message board when this game was made, and you cant build factories on islands because of balance. The designer want you to ship all your infantry from USA, and not pop up on any island, except Japan, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, which is too big to be islands. The same with China, no factories there too, and that is because again the designer in this case did want to see infantry pop up in any territory without factories. On the bright side, the designer gave Norway a value of 3 IPC and the possibility for a major IC, even if the real world Norway was then, and still is, a cold mountain range inhabited by 3 million hillbillies with no railroad nor industry what so ever. And that too is because of game balance. So get the clue here and start looking at AA as a game and not a historic simulation