I’m sorry, your explaination is right, but I just cannot see America going:
“Oh shoot, Germany’s got 400 tanks in French West Africa, I’ll land in Rio de Oro instead!!”
So yea, I have to say, most of the neutrals really will never get used. They’ll be unscratched areas on the board until the day it disintegrates in the hands of an archeologist a billion trillion million years from now.
Some of the others are awesome! Tkae Mongolia to avoid Yak. Take Spain to avoid Sea Wall in Europe. Take Argentina to invade Brazil. Take Venezuela to liberate Brazil! Take Switzerland for….uhm…uhm…ere…uhm…CHOCOLATE! That’s it!