need advice-best 2 countries to play in a 1vs1 MP game?

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My long-time opponent and I want to play this game against each other. Which two countries in the '36 scenario would provide the most even starting point and the most balanced continued play? Among the major powers of course...

Thanks in advance!

 

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I Think Us Or Germany

I Think Us Or Germany-
Us Because Of Economy And A Lot Of Possibiletys-

Germany Because Of Tec, Dok, And Easy To Win With In Europa

 

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GER, SU

US is a bit too distant from Germany.

 

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yea Ger vs Su or Ger vs uk

 

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My long-time opponent and I want to play this game against each other. Which two countries in the '36 scenario would provide the most even starting point and the most balanced continued play? Among the major powers of course...

Thanks in advance!

Great question Toten.
I am in the same position (been gaming with my friend since grade school - almost 30 years now). Seems that the only way to really play this game is MP and we are currently learning the game separately and will probably be ready to play in a couple of months.

Anyway, I noticed that the game can be saved and then when you start playing again you can pick a different country.

Given America's isolationist attitude, France's rather fast collapse and Russia's separate goals and idealogy I thought that the best way to play a 1936 Campaign would be:

Axis - German the entire campaign. Occasionally taking on the Japanese during crucial moments/times.

Allies - start as UK. Once US has entered the war switch to US. Only allow SU play right after the equivalent of Barbarossa and then only for a couple of months and then once a year for a couple of months to represent major campaigns.

Now I know that this is no stroke of genuis and because I have not heard of anyone doing this I am assuming it can not be done or can it?

I understand that when you switch, for example, from UK to US that the computer takes over the management of UK. However, I assume it would leave basic things like Techs in progress alone or does it just re-do everything as it sees fit? Can this even be done at all or are you forced into just playing the side you started with in a Campaign?

Thanks in advance for any insight/advice.

 

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Update: USA vs Soviet Union alternate reality

First of all, thanks to those who have posted. I started to think after this subject had no respose for a few weeks that I had asked a forbidden question or something

So we started playing our vs. game as USA (me ) and SU (my nemisis
). '36 and '37 were uneventful as USA searches the world for possible conquests and SU concentrated on updating her massive land forces. In '38 SU attacked Finland and changed history forever by then declaring and going to war with Sweden while simultaneously gobbling up the Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

Meanwhile, USA sat by pouring money into political influence among the Baltic countries and debating which allaince to join, the UK allaince or the German alliance. Germany had declared war on SU when war with Sweden had ensued and as such, joining that alliance would lock USA into war on the side of Germany. Instead, USA joined the UK alliance for some quick Blueprint swaps and then bailed out again having decided to try and have a go at creating our own little sphere of influence with anyone who would take American dollars. These turned out to be Romania, Guatemala, Venezuala and Nicaragua so far. These were possible only after some consistent, annual social engineering to get the slider down to the side of Interventionism and a bit of luck avoiding any events forcing said slider back up into Isolationist. USA also set out to garentee the independence of any country surrounding USSR who would allow it.

This brings me to the real dilemma of playing USA; a very real lack of belligerent countries to DoW on since USSR's actions have resulted in a chain of events that has locked Germany in war with USSR while UK and allies remain at peace and Japan is seemingly uninterested with anything but China.

Finally, in August of 1940, the Soviet Union attacked Norway, a country which the USA had recently sworn to uphold her independence, and as such, the US was obliged at long last to go to war. Unfortunately, this leaves Romania as the only ally with a land connection the the new enemy and because of the failure of USA's influence among the surrounding countries, no way to send forces to aid her.

SO how the heck does USA take the war to SU?

 

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North Atlantic Beach Invasions, Sweden, Finland, etc