Historic set up

[Flashman]

Setting aside my quibbles with the geography, I propose the following changes to make the set up of the Global game more historically accurate:

This assumes the deletion of the “all strict neutrals go to war” rule.

MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA & WEST INDIES should be pro-Allied

EIRE should be SN

GREENLAND should have the same status as the Dutch colonies, i.e. a de facto pro-allied neutral.  With a Danish roundel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Greenland_during_World_War_II

ITALY should be neutral until Paris falls as described elsewhere under the “Italy Fix” suggestion.  But what happens if Paris doesn’t fall? (The Allies should not be allowed to declare war on Italy first).

YUGOSLAVIA should be SN.  Pro-Axis would be more accurate for 1940, but that just lets the Axis walk in…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers#Yugoslavia

HUNGARY should be pro-Axis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary_during_the_Second_World_War

ROMANIA is a problem in that it should still be in control of Bessarabia.  It was the grabbing of this province by Stalin in July that propelled Romania into the Axis camp.
Suggestion: Romania pro-Axis, Bessarabia pro-Allied?  
OR
Romania combined is neutral, but invasion of one part by a power makes the other part pro the other alliance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_during_World_War_II

BALTIC STATES should be SN. The “friendly occupation” by Soviet troops in June was hardly welcome…though a German R1 invasion would breech the terms of the Nazi-Soviet pact, which could be considered an act of war in Moscow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_and_annexation_of_the_Baltic_states_by_the_Soviet_Union_(1940)

Perhaps this Pact can be more definitive, assigning

Finland, Vyborg, Baltic States, Eastern Poland (1939) & Bessarabia to the Soviet sphere;

Western Poland (1939), Hungary, Romania, Balkan states to Germany.

An invasion of any of the tts assigned to the other signatory is considered a breach of the Pact and therefore an act of WAR.  This includes, for example, Germany occupying pro-Axis Finland, which is still considered part of the Soviet sphere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler-Stalin_Pact#The_Molotov.E2.80.93Ribbentrop_Pact_and_its_secret_protocol

GREECE & CRETE should be politically identical, i.e. an attack on one brings the other to war

similarly with

SPAIN (SN) & Rio de Oro

PORTUGAL & P. Guinea, Mozambique & Angola

SIERRA LEONE should be UK territory

BELGIAN CONGO should be similar to Dutch & Danish colonies, i.e. pro-Allied. With a Belgian roundel.

LIBERIA should be pro-Allied

SIAM should be pro-Axis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers#Thailand

PERSIA should be pro-Axis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran

IRAQ should be pro-Allied

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers#Iraq

There is a case for making ARGENTINA pro-Axis to balance Brazil, but not a convincing one.

Also, all the SN South American countries should be considered as politically aligned; i.e. attack one and you’re at war with them all.

This proposal at least creates an interesting variant, particularly in regard to opening strategies.

[shintokamikaze]

its a game man,not a history documentary,but what ever floats yer boat

[Imperious Leader]

ITALY should be neutral until Paris falls as described elsewhere under the “Italy Fix” suggestion.

Only neutral till their first turn, then automatically at war regardless of what Germany does in paris. This saves Italian fleet and give Germany another build option that naval.

[Flashman]

Mmmm, hard to see Mussolini opting for war with the Germans beaten back from Paris…

[Flashman]

@shintokamikaze:

its a game man,not a history documentary,but what ever floats yer boat

So why not play it on a chess board?

[Imperious Leader]

hard to see Mussolini opting for war with the Germans beaten back from Paris…

Well staying out of war till any other turn is not fair to the game balance. Italy needs to be seated in the hot seat but out of fairness not until they have a chance to play a turn, rather than lose most of their fleet before they even get to fight.

BY June 1940 Hitler had really beaten most of france and Mussolini saw his opportunity a few days latter when he attacked south france so he can lay claims to territory at the peace conference.

[maverick_76]

He didn’t want to be left out like a child, lol.