Thank you very much, Private Panic!  I have been trying to figure out how to get Triple A to work, and have not succeeded yet.  It will come, but maybe slowly.  I saw a difficult problem that seems to make the game almost unplayable:  the game starts with only 8 soldiers, and 5 tanks, 2 battleships, 2 bombers and 4 fighters, and a bit more.  Russia starts with 18 infantry needed, on 5 places.  But they have only 8 infantry to  place.  Even using the little place markers, it is assumed by the designer that any one player only has infantry on 8 places total, at any time during the game.  And no one can ever have more than 2 battleships,  2 destroyers, etc.  in my opinion, the game needs to be packaged with double at least of everything that they have.  Especially for Russia, who cannot use sea squares because of not having a factory on a usable sea square.  So to make it short, the game as it is packaged seems to be practically unplayable.  Do they market more playing pieces separately?  Just for history, was the maximum used by any of the WWII powers, 2 battleships, 2 destroyers, 2 bombers, and 4 fighters?  Any  suggestions?  Thanks very much for your help.  I appreciate your thoughtfulness in answering my questions!

I just bought the game yesterday and have not yet played it.  Is it possible to play 1941 with only myself?  Or online with someone? Or with the computer as the opposing player?  It is very difficult for me to find any other player.  It becomes schizo to try to play both sides.  And a second question:  What sides are considered about equal?  In other words, if playing two players, who should take what sides, of the 5 potential countries at war?  Should one side be UK, USA, and USSR, and the other player be Deutschland and Japan?  Or is it better with other player configurations, such as one player being Deutschland and USSR, and the other USA and UK, or what?  Or maybe one player Russia and the other Japan?  And when not all sides are playing, what aboiut the others?  If anyone has suggestions, my thanks to you.  O yes, a third question:  Is it possible to buy the ability of a territory so that its income (IPC) value changes, and also is it possible to buy/build an additional industrial complex?  That would greatly help USA and USSR, and Japan. Thank you very much!