Like I said, the Russian Revolution rules need a complete rewrite to make any sense.
Another thing I’d change is that the Revolution can occur at any time; if it only happens at the end of the Russian turn, its an open invitation for the Allies to gerrymander the revolution in their own interests, especially if Moscow does not count for victory purposes if still Russian controlled or contested.
Note that its perfectly possible for a country to lose tts (including the capital) on their own turn by withdrawing from contested tts.
In fact, for this reason, I’d make it that the Revolution only occurs at the end of a CP player’s turn.
The USA controlling minors while neutral is another ambiguity; and as far as I can tell in the case of aligned neutrals, only the “big brother” power can move units in.
Therefore, Germany can move units into French Equatorial Africa (to attack), but the UK cannot move pieces in to defend, even though its an Allied-aligned neutral.
It also seems strange that Germany can attack Portuguese East Africa without triggering war with Portugal. In effect, then, Portuguese and Belgian colonies are non-aligned neutrals with no defending units, except that only the CPs may attack them.
It isn’t even clear if France is allowed to move units into them without first having activated their capital.
to quote one line from the rule book:
“…the ally who originally mobilized in Holland would most likely gain Holland’s 2 IPCs if the tt ends up in their control.”
Well, would they or wouldn’t they? Are we supposed to make up the rules as we play?