@Razor:

Well, India had a population of 400 millions in 1939, and Canada had only 7 millions, so its only logical that India is the main contributor. I know some canucks here dont like to hear that, but my country Norway contributed a lot more to the allied war effort than Canada, without being recognized for that, so I say stop whining.

I’m sorry, but what are you talking about? I understand the point about India and how it is illogical to allow Canada to become a power in the context of this board game, but i wouldn’t compare the contributions to that of Norway.

Its army of 50000 managed to hold the Germans back for roughly 3 months but only with the assistance of over 150000 British and french troops. Then when the government capitulated approximately 50000 citizens joined the Axis armies in a variety of fields from the Luftwaffe to the Kriegsmarine. The majority chose to join the Waffen SS, and ended up fighting the Russians on the eastern front.

Now the last time I checked, if your fighting against somebody, your not helping them. Now i may admit to being bias, as I am a Canuck and its true I cannot find statistics for Canadians joining axis armies, but I have a gut feeling that there will be less than 50000. Also add in the resources, aircraft, troops, ships and other goodies (i.e. maple syrup) that we helped supply

But as stated by Razor earlier the contribution made by the Canadians in the Pacific were far less than the Indians and to further isolate the UK ipcs in the European side will only hurt the game play. 9 nations is already the absolute limit to what this kind of game can handle in a F2F game without somebody getting bored. (unless your a fanatic like me, unfortunately the people I play with are not) If your not happy with the way the game comes out, either:

a) don’t buy it (although you really should and I know you will)
b) make up house rules
c) just play it any ways

Readings:
http://www.feldgrau.com/norway.html

As a Canadian I would love to see Canada as a separate power but I just cant see this being possible in axis and allies, the amount of time and money required to form a force large enough to do anything, the game will be over.

If it gets around 10 Ipcs a turn, that’s two turns to fill and build a transport, another to build a basic escort unit (DD) and another two or so to get anywhere, and then everyone dies due to either a fighter attack on the navy or a hopeless attack on European soil.

It would do better if it was grouped together with Britain, as pretty much all of the British commonwealth fought under the same command structure.

AT MOST i would say there should be an optional rule to group them in with the ANZACs, and like Australia and India in the original AAA pacific, and form some sort of commonwealth turn (dump in South Africa or any other former British Colony that someone wants to have their own turn) just separate income, but I don’t think they should ever need their own turn if they want to stand a chance against the Axis.