What he said.
Why can’t it carry on to a Pro-Allies Neutral Yugoslvia?
Because Yugoslavia is a friendly neutral territory, not a friendly territory. Once claimed by an Allied power, it will become friendly, but not before.
That’s the thing-I don’t think national objectives imbalance the game, especially in the Europe version where the Soviets are almost guaranteed to get 9 IPCs a turn after going to war.
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As you can see, the Germans still took Moscow on turn 6 and on their way to Egypt (Italy’s looking in pretty good shape too).