Check out the new scenario in the user-submitted mods forum. It's a multiplayer game designed for pickup games when you don't want to invest the time developing all the way from 1936, but you're like me and hate the 1939 and 1941 scenarios where you start out in the middle of the war with a lousy disposition. You start at September 1, 1938, and nobody is at war. Every major nation has all its major options open before it and has been competently developed by a player who has played a number of multiplayer games. Check it out, especially if you're a ValkyrieNet cruiser like me.