In 1940 2nd edition Germany has a larger force near the eastern front. A strategy that has worked for me resulting in victory was first turn building 7 artillery on Berlin. You take France first turn while moving the rest of your forces to the eastern front. 2nd turn build as many tanks as possible and put them on Germany. On turn 3 you have your huge amounts of infantry paired up with your 7 extra artillery you got first turn and you move all your units on your border to eastern Poland and take Belorussia as well with a few mech or tanks. At the point the Russian player doesn’t know if you are going to assault Leningrad or stalingrad so he divides his forces to try to hold both. He will likely be placing 3 infantry on Ukraine, Stalingrad and Leningrad every turn but your target is in fact Moscow. With this massive blob of 20+ infantry, 20+ artillery, and 15+ tanks, the Russian player won’t have enough turns to defend against it. His army will be too far away at Ukraine and Leningrad to defend Moscow. If any of there larger armies get in your way, your massive blob can wipe it out in the 1st or 2nd round of combat while taking minimum loses. Once you have Moscow the axis basically win because one of the main allied powers is defeated. The Russians will have a tough time retaking there capital too seeing as they have mainly infantry with an attack of 1. The key to this is surprise and making sure all your forces attack Moscow at the same time. By turn 6 you should have Moscow in your hands. In case you are wondering about defending Germany’s own borders, just remember you are building new units each turn that can mop up any stray soviet troops. Like I said, this strategy usually doesn’t work twice against the same person because he will know to pull back his troops to defend Moscow when he sees the unstoppable blob brewing.