Question on the territories. Where does Europe end?
Is Turkey in Europe? Saudi Arabia?
It ends in the middle east…all territories west of India, including Iraq, Iran, Arabia, plus Soviet territories of Moscow and all territories west of it.
I think the specific countries should be spelled out.
Russia can influence:
Afghanistan=y
Mongolia=y
Turkey=y
Germany can influence:
Spain=y
Sweden=y
Turkey=y
Switzerland=y
UK can influence:
Afghanistan=y
Eire=y
Saudi Arabia=y
Spain (via Rio De Oro)=y
Turkey=n
Japan:
Mongolia=y
US
Argentina=y
Mongolia=n
Peru=y
Venezuela=y
Plus, anyone can influence anyone they touch through conquest.
yes correct. If you conquer the adjacent territory you can influence the neutral.
For simplicity, I like the idea of not being able to attack until it is at +3. Once, a country becomes a sympathizer you need to be able to cut that off at the quick.
I suppose you can invade it to prevent it falling in enemy hands. That is what happened to Iraq, while it was feared to happen in Levant Sates, and Madagascar ( in both cases UK needed to invade them to prevent them falling to Germany)
If we don’t do this, then it will be a mad scramble for Neutrals on T1. As US I’d invade S. America for the extra income. UK Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, etc. It would just be ugly.
America is the only player than can influence central and South America ( exception Argentina)…so its not gonna fall in enemy hands, unless Argentina goes axis or Axis invade S America. If America invaded those neutrals it would waste time for them fighting Germany. Secondly it would turn them into pro-German allies, and possibly allow Germans to start landing stuff over there.
Perhaps something akin to “The War Game” where if you attack before it is at +/-5 they get additional random forces:
d1: INF
d2: 2 * INF
d3: INF + ARM
etc…
They have their own forces according to historical records extrapolated and abstracted in their AARHE force pool. I suppose it would be an optional rule to include random extra units to stem the tide against neutral aggression.
Once you got a few more games in you will not value neutrals as much to your strategy.