@Gamerman01:
To simon - I’m sympathetic to your point about Vichy + Italy taking Paris, so I would suggest that you houserule that no units starting the game in Paris may move
Aren’t you still going to have a problem if Britain chooses to reinforce South France with a plane or two and/or a transport load? Perhaps you could houserule that too - that Britain is not allowed to reinforce French territories in Europe on UK1. You might have to give your opponent a concession though, but I bet you can find people to agree to play that way with you
Another alternative that would be more elegant, is to strike the Vichy rule requirement that there are no Allied land units in South France (#3)
Yes moving a transport to SZ93 and landing at least one unit does block Vichy but that requires a sacrifice of other moves for the UK. I would normally use that transport to hit Ethiopia. If you don’t do that, you either have to use the one from SZ39 which means it can’t activate Sumatra or allow Italy to more greatly endanger Egypt.
House ruling it out requires a fair bit of pre-planning. I really only would consider Italy Strong if I end a round in France with no more than 3 units remaining. Perhaps I could vary that but you don’t want to fail to take down France or have to apply air to it.