Welp just to give you guys an update, we did not switch over to 2nd edition. Everyone just wanted to start playing and get started. So we stuck with 1st edition.
Allies crushed the Axis. The person playing as Germany/Italy ignored Russian almost the entire time. They built navy after navy with Germany and no ground troops. Needless to say, Russia took Berlin and USA took Rome. At the end, Japan had their navy intact but lost all of china. They had just Korea and Shanghai they took back when we quit. And Russia was making 114 IPC’s per turn. XD
Perhaps we’ll look at the rules for 2nd edition for the next time we played. Although, our games have usually been quite competitive and the record is now 4-3, Allies favor.