Stendhal

That's the Danish Straits. The Denmark Strait lies between Iceland and Greenland.

Napoleon III did not defend Paris; he was captured at Sedan. Leon Gambetta did, then escaped by balloon..

It's spelled "Bismarck" as in 'Bismarck, North Dakota'.

Sigmaringen is a city in southern Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, at the upper Danube, formerly Hohenzollern, capital of the Sigmaringen district. It was first mentioned in 1077 and is particularly renowned for its wonderfully preserved Sigmaringen Castle (ger.: Schloss Sigmaringen). On September 7, 1944, following the Allied invasion of France, Henri Philippe Pétain and members of the Vichy government cabinet fled to Germany and established a government in exile at Sigmaringen. Pétain returned to France in April 1945. French writers Céline and Lucien Rebatet, fearing for their lives because of their political and anti-Semitic writings, fled along with the Vichy government to Sigmaringen.

Just move every other row of tiles half a tile to the right and you have hexes. Easy.

Where would you move to ?

Not unless it has hexagons. I bought three copies of SC1 so it pains me to say this.

Cherbourg ?

When I play the game against -admittedly- the AI, the Western Allies and the Soviets meet on the Rhine, so it may be that the US in the game is weak. But had the US been as strong as you make them, should they not have met the Reds on the Vistula historically ?

Three players, PBEM, winner takes/holds Berlin. I am looking forward to that AAR.

> I just wonder why Rommel H.Q. gets 8 en Patton H.Q. only 7. Because Patton is played by George C. Scott, when Rommel is played by James Mason.

Would it not be more sensible to ban placing air in cities ?

Complete Blobbification is what you get when you blow the dikes... but it is a pity after all that OZB you paid .

I believe that individual mine-laying is out of scale for a strategic game. Airborne and naval mine deployment should be seen as part of bombers' and submarines' anti-shipping strikes. But I do think that the Baltic Red Fleet is over-represented in SC, in view of the extensive mine fields sealing of the Gulf of Finland -- see here for a rather amusing photograph of a German ship pretending to be a Finnish forest.

Could you perhaps have your 2 g/f play (against) each other ?