@Vendetta said:

He'll just want to have consistency with whichever standard he chooses, and not be mixing and matching on different parts of the map.

I like your optimism about me!

@KurtGodel7 Gibraltar working like Suez is very debatable. I would say hell no for Gibraltar and I would tend to still say no in case a single alliance owns every territory on that strait (meaning owning both Gibraltar and Morocco with your drawing to block enemy movement).

What I mean is, for example, that, if Germany would have had the Bismarck fully repaired in Brest and then moving through the strait into the Mediterranean, Gibraltar itself would not have impeded that happening (of course, the ships in Gibraltar could have).

If the question would be whether you can fully close the strait with mines once you have Gibraltar, I'm not feeling qualified enough as a miner to answer that... (but surely no in case the strait is contended, for example the Axis controlling Gibraltar and the Allies controlling Morocco)

The matter could be made some clearer with a more correct depiction of the situation, like having Spanish Morocco (maybe Tangier too, but I would consider it being part of Spanish Morocco thus avoiding having it on the map) and Gibraltar being limited to what it was rather than covering the entire European part of the strait.

@Cernel I see, it depends on whether you want to make use of the Nazi administrative divisions or the traditional provinces of Germany. I think either standard is acceptable - the Nazis never fully abolished the old provinces and states, they just transferred administrative authority to the Reichsgaue instead.

He'll just want to have consistency with whichever standard he chooses, and not be mixing and matching on different parts of the map.

On another matter, it is impossible for ships to enter the Baltic unless your side owns Denmark. Also, (new rule change) it is impossible to journey from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean unless your side owns Gibraltar.

The plan is for Italy to take Gibraltar on its first turn. Then the Axis can turn it into a hard point, to prevent a naval race between themselves and the Allies.

Leningrad is supposed to fall on G2. Ahistorical? Perhaps. But Germany's best general, Erich von Manstein, believed that Leningrad could easily have been taken as part of Barbarossa. He expressed frustration at what he believed was the wasted opportunity.

In my last play test the European theater was heavily unbalanced in favor of the Allies. I've made some balance changes, so we'll see how things go.