i just thought i’d mention this for all the people who hate the nutcracker strategy (like me, i think it is cheap and dumb), russia needs to go BEFORE germany, not after
so for example
germany
russia
italy
this would allow italy to be the nutcracker
but
russia
germany
italy
and
germany
italy
russia
in these two cases, italy can not be the nutcracker (technically germany could crack it for italy, but since italy can’t take moscow this doesn’t count)
i seriously prefer these last two turn orders to the first one
simply because the nut cracker strategy is really bad game design and no fun, in my opinion
thx,
veqryn