@Napoleon:
Funcioneta is right……i will try to play with 7 players…but for the allied minors…i’ll try to put some rookie players on that mission
Maybe it’s just me, but I think that putting rookie players on France or China in a seven player game is asking for them to never play the game again. “Here, why don’t you dork around with these guys for 3 minutes, then wait an hour and a half for your next turn”
To me (and without having seen the full game, obv) the maximum the game can realistically support is 6 (Germany, USSR/France, Japan, UK/ANZAC, Italy, USA/China) or 5 if Italy isn’t enough to entertain a full player. That way each of the allied players has a major and a minor ally, and each allied player will have something to do in the beginning of the game and the end of the game. The Axis players will be fine, as they tend to have more activity per nation than the allies do.
Of course, personally, I prefer 1-on-1 or at most 2-on-1, though that may be in part due to availability of time and opponents.