We do all agree. But if you play AAE40 the way Germany should - neutralizing UK first - and then take on the Russian bear you will win the war in 1943, thats why I think “Fuhrer directives” is a crucial part of being the C-in-C in this game. You must obey to the nazi idea of lebensraum and concentrate on occupying Ukraine and Caucasus before you take Moscow, otherwise it´s to easy.

Addition: Germany only lost ww2 because they were Nazis. Read the Fuhrers directives - he was a gambler who controlled the Wermacht and as all gamblers deep inside wanted to lose. Still, ww2 it´s the most amazing chess play to play…

It´s true that interfering in Greece was one of UKs worst mistakes of the war. Because they had to split up their forces. But that´s why Germany survived the war for three and a half years being on the defence. Allied supreme command were morons, when the German generals were tactically geniuses. No Allied general (including Patton, Zhukov and Alexander) were even close to the Germans in using their forces to their best. That´s why German infantry should attack and defend one 2.

Seems strange that Greece is neutral. It was allied with the UK 1940, and the brits used Crete as an airbase for bombing the oil fields in Ploeisti (Romania). That´s why Hitler ordered Student to drop some crack paratroopers on the island to force the brits out of there.

Of course Halifax shoul be in  there. Forgot about that. And Leningrads naval base should be named Kronstadt.

Important naval bases in Europe 1940:

UK
Scapa Flow
Plymouth
Sothampton (more civil)
Gibraltar
Alexandria
Dakar
Malta (small)

France
Toulon
Brest
Dunkirque
Saint Nazaire (subs)
Casablanca
Mers-El-Kebir (Oran)
Beirut (small)

Italy
Taranto
Brindisi
Trieste
Genoa
Naples
Messina
Tripoli
Tobruk

Germany
Kiel
Willemshaven
Danzig

USSR
Leningrad
Murmansk
Sevastopol
Odessa

USA
Hampton Roads, Norfolk Virginia
New York
Boston

Other (Neutrals)
Antwerpen
Rotterdam
Gothenburg
Oslo (fjord)
Narvik (fjord)
Lisabon
Cadiz
Barcelona
Pireus