Completed a game with the United States. Very enjoyable, all the preparation and war part was perfect. All the AI powers were extremely aggressive and efficient-Italy took Egypt and the Middle East, Japan took China and Indonesia, British India, however, managed to counterattack in Japanese China. The air force is very strong and I have lost many more ships than I would like to admit in the Mediterranean, to the point where I have given up a landing and aimed directly at Normandy. Unfortunately, I must say, very poorly manned with one or even zero divisions per beach. Now that the Germans had returned in force from India, I was already in the Rhineland.
Yeah, India. Barbarossa was a success and Germany defeated the USSR, establishing Reichskommissariats over European Russia, ceding Eastern Siberia to the Japanese puppet and beginning to penetrate Iran, Iraq and India through the Caucasus.
Unfortunately, it seems that the game does not involve scenarios where Germany defeats the USSR but then is in turn defeated by the Allies. Once France, Germany, Italy, Bohemia, and Austria were occupied, the German surrender event was triggered: Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, and Romania were annexed by the UK, which then proceeded to liberate them as democracies. And this is where the problems arose:
1) The Reichskommissariats (and the Serbian puppet) are not included in the German surrender event. Ergo they are not annexed and continue to fight. This leads to very strange situations. For example:
2) The part of Poland that remains German is annexed by the UK and then liberated. However, this leads to the Reich Governorate being at war with the Allies, but untouchable because it is in the middle of neutral Czechoslovakia and Poland. Same with collaborationist Serbia, at war and untouchable in the midst of neutral nations. The governorate was then attacked by Poland and Czechoslovakia (for claims, I suppose) resulting in a great bordergore.
3) By the way, why did the UK liberate Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro instead of Yugoslavia? Maybe because it did not control Belgrade?
4) By passing the frontline provinces to neutral nations, the U.S. military in Europe is either beamed back to Washington or gets stuck in the neutral nations. To free them I had to force military access with "acceptall"
5) Forces landed in the Ukrainian Reichskommisariat remain isolated without even supplies because they cannot pass through the Straits controlled by liberated and neutral Turkey
6) It seems that it is not possible to liberate anything in ex-German European Russia, once annexed by the UK, nor is there an event to return it to the "Russian State" that took the place of the USSR after the defeat