[Torplexed]

I've played HOI2 as well. Interesting game with lots of strategic options. Unfortunately it seems to do a better job of simulating the war in Europe than the war in the Pacific. In many of the Grand Campaign games I've started which begin in 1936 I've seen Japan kicked out of both China and Korea by the Nationalist Chinese by 1938. Now I know Japan had her troubles in Asia but the threat of getting bumped completely off the continent by the disorganized and infighting Chinese wasn't one of them.

Another problem area seems to be resources. Playing as the U.K. in the 1936 campaign game I manage to stockpile up so much fuel, steel, supplies, and other strategic materials in Britain itself, that by 1939 when war finally rolls around I never have to worry about German wolfpacks cutting off my resource lifeline for the duration of the campaign. (As a matter of fact I usually start selling my surplus to the the highest bidder.)