First a word on Iberian feelings towards a successful Barbarossa. In reality Spain was demoralized from their civil war, and more interested in rebuilding their industry and infrastructure than troops, however that means their troops were seasoned and probably would have fared better than other Axis allies. The real reason I see for Franco to stay out of the war was that Spain was an easy target for Germany coming from the north and an alliance with Germany would mean the loss of Spain’s final overseas possessions, considering that for the past few hundred years France and UK had been snipping colonies from other powers.
Not sure how that political situation would play out in this game. Also Portugal would have been force to side with Spain or be invaded. Same problem with them of losing all their colonies if they joined the axis….and if they stayed neutral they make bank in trading luxury goods.
For gameplay’s sake perhaps adding in an ipc cost for US DOW’s on neutrals might do the trick?
@M7574:
The point of tying all of the neutrals together is to discourage attacking any of them. If you break them up into blocks, it will be exploited badly.
If neutrals are to be broken into separate blocks then their force pools should increase as the game moves along. Don’t you think Spain or Turkey would increase the size of their armies if a threat grows on their border? The rest of the world is mobilizing HUGE armies, the neutrals should increase then as well.
I agree that their force pools should be increased, however I am leery of adding too many troops, I would rather prefer naval unit additions if it can be wrangled. That is because the inf numbers are printed on the board and I would like to keep that information up to date. I do however think adding an inf to Liberia might work within my proposal.
