I say Russia. I like it because I’m so good at it. I can’t remember the last time I made an error as them. Somehow, I’m able to sit back, play the IPC game, and then make a sweeping advance into Germany every time. I feel the power of building slowly until my forces, as far as sheer numbers are concerned, outnumber those of everyone else on the board combined. My second favorite is Japan. There is just no resistance until Moscow. No one is even paying attention to you, yet you come across Asia in a manner rebellious to history. Very interesting part of the game. Germany, at least in games played my-family-style (which is an game of heavy industrial bombing and slow combat which is familliar to us implants who played the revised edition first and which, I am proud to say, crushes the Axis just as it did in the real war), is bogged down in a dreary economic game in which the English speaking varmints such the life out of you. This is awful. Some may like being the center of attention but being Germany, to me, is like being the bulls eye, the center of bad attention. Britain was fun until I realized that when I played a Japanese player like myself who does not fight in the Pacific long-term, an Indian industrial complex is destroyed first turn, second turn if I’m lucky. In my games they are a one unit wonder: heavy bomber, heavy bomber, heavy bomber; important, but it takes all of thirty seconds. And the US never really enters the action. They either fail, or the Germans see their doom and surrender.
