Take the Suez Canal and Gibraltar, and defend them like hell.
That should make the Mediterranean an Axis lake and open up the Soviet Union and Africa.
The maps and game strategies are great, its the unit setup that’s total crap. Both of these games were meant as stand-alones and not part of a whole cloth.
The game idea was good but, since it’s hard to balance such an epic game with less than 10 people in a few games, the playtesting has been left to us.