Some other random notes / observations.
In my current game I am playing the Italians, and ... Germany is just friggen stupid. I mean running around with its hair on fire ignorant.
I dont know if im suddenly noticing this or if something changed with the AI after the last version change that took out Germany's early access to the mobile AT weapons. In those games as the French it was all i could do even with the Magionet line to stay afloat.
This game, it is Italy who took out France at the middle of May 1941, just in time to rush over and hold the line in eastern europe and stall the russians from northern europe, however i dont have the units yet to hold the line in the balkens, thats going to get ugly.
Britan still stands, and i cant do anything about that just yet either, however i have taken all of northern africa and all of the middle east.
After watching germany just sit there and be ignorant, and not even try to move east to engage the russians, i was a bit flustered and saved the game. With the very limited unit choice the itialians get i honestly dont know if i can stop the russians alone, or even mount anything against Britan, and the greeks are still alive and kicking too but with mother russia right on my doorstep i dont know what i can do there.