@Stucifer Sorry about your poor French tank – I run into that problem all the time. I feel badly because the initial setup seems to call for a tank build pretty strongly, but I don’t know that I want to change the rules that barracks can’t build tanks or that factories require a 3-value territory, and I don’t think French Equatorial Africa can reasonably be made to be worth 3 PUs.
I’m open to suggestions if you can see any ways out of this dilemma or if you think one of the assumptions above should be relaxed!