@Pvt.Ryan:
I hope Yugo has troops. Turkey would be cool as like a extra objective for the axis.
Turkey’s two main values to Germany (if Germany was willing to ignore Turkey’s neutrality and was able to mount an effective armoured attack across its difficult terrain) would have been:
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To provide the route for delivering the right hook of a pincer attack against Egypt and the Suez Canal, with Rommel’s forces west of Egypt providing the left hook.
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To allow Germany (once Britain had been knocked out of Egypt) to drive into Iraq and Iran in order to seize their valuable oil fields.
John Keegan explores this scenario in one of the chapters in the book “What If?: The World’s Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been”, edited by Robert Cowley.
If ever the Express game series ever branches out into the realm of hypothetical WWII scenarios, that might be an interesting one to explore.