Hi Gedemon,
it is a great scenario. I played until 1943, January. Since December 1942 I got graphic issues over many tiles (mainly they are just black color) and I can not see the terrain without switching into other modes.
Also the save game function does not work, so when I exited and tried to load the quick save, it did work and graphics have been corrected.
So I am happy to play another round.
For the balance, I played random leader and drew Germany, on Prince. initially a hard fight with the Russians around Moskva, but once taken, it was easy. By 1943 January, I took all Russian cities until after the Ural Mountains.
I also took England completely, and sank all ships in the mid & atlantic by keeping the "U-Boots" grouped together. Diplomacy is kind of lacking, as the smallest gift amount to any City state is 100,000 gold (for 16,000 influence), while my gold only grew at ~250-500 a turn.
by 1943 Jan, Japan has taken all of China but 2 Cities. The Americans just took Sengai, and are likely to take the whole mainland, as Japan has taken all APAC and got their troops down in Australia already (Darwin taken).
Italy is kind of passive, lost a city in Africa and got a small fleet at Sea. noting besides that really.
by 1943 Jan, Axis got 1900 points (1100 Germany), while Allies are down to 1400"s.
Again, great scenario.
Turn time is acceptable and no issue to me, but to be fair I got a strong PC (4 cores, 12gb RAM).
Best Regards,
Jack