Italy all comes down to what UK does against your fleet.

All three transport survive: No British player in their right mind would allow this but if this happens, going after Egypt is a must.

Two transports survive: Safe UK move, usually Italy tries to make a move in Africa or at least go after neutrals.

One transport survive: Italy normally abandons Africa and focus on Can Opening for Germany

No transport survive: I am pretty sure this is impossible with OOB version, maybe a bid could make it doable but again, without any transports. Go to Can Opening for Germany.

I don’t buy it. It doesn’t excuse USSR to be this weak. The only conclusion I can come up with is ether they didn’t test Germany vs USSR enough OR they wanted USSR to be this weak.

@taamvan I personally think that 1940 simply wasn’t play tested correctly or not play tested enough. It really bugs the crap out of me that Germany has a 100% win over USSR thus forcing USSR to get help from the Allies or hope that Germany plays dumb. Point being is that the bid allows some flex ability for USSR. It helps even more when the bid is directly put into USSR which I’ve done in my last two games as the Allies. Only then can USSR flex some muscle.

ANZAC needs to build a defense for otherwise Australia will be taken at some point, and US needs an army because you want France back in the game as soon as possible. France building an army helps Moscow.

I’ve been trying to find offensive strategic moves against Axis Europe that wouldn’t hurt Moscow in short term. The only solution I can come up with is the hopes that Germany and Italy spread themselves too thin too soon. In other words, I hope the players have no idea what they are doing.

The problem with Bright and Dark skies shows one simple weakness, you don’t have an army and bombers can’t take land.

USSR is the Anti-Hero.

But with the game at hand, USSR is forced into defensive infantry is because of how the Axis is placed. UK must sink as many Italian transports as it can because in terms of location, Italy has the easiest NO’s with all of them only being at most five territories away from Rome. The Japanese navy must face an equal enemy because it’s incredibly easy for it to contain its army on the water. China ins’t a death trap for Japan because Japan could in theory just place defense with Chinese cities and it wouldn’t hurt them in long term. China cannot stop Japan from invading India though I wish Chinese forces could go past Burma. Another issue too is that the reason why US forces target Italy first because it’s the easiest Axis nation to attack for it, it’s only two turns away or if Italy is doing great, US can hit it right out of the gates. Literally US can break an Italian NO in one move. Just begin Operation Torch.

The biggest problem with Bright Skies I have is that you are playing UK too loose with the Middle East. My experience has shown me that Middle Earth is almost always a must.

The reason for the “out of date” strategic deployment of USSR is because Germany has 100% win over USSR.

I believe the purpose of NO’s is to give the Axis powers options to make attacks instead of relying on the same old same old. With that said, Italy will suffer the most from lack of NO’s while most of the Allies will be hurt too.

@ampdrive Italy declared war on UK to try to get a strategic edge before UK made the first move. The reason for going into France is to take an advantage of the fact that France clearly was fighting like shite and wanted to gain easy land.

@Imperious-Leader You could but like me trying to get France goes first, you basically have to change the entire game to get any mod to work.