I understand that strategy games ought to be difficult and you can expect spending tens of hours figuring out how to win. The problem with this game is that is linear, has too much bugs and it lacks of logic. It is well known that Germans were at one point only step from defeating the USSR. When I played as Axis and conquered Moscow with few other cities, the country was still operated like nothing happened. Lot of new strong units and massive ammount of production points. I was forced to alliance with Japan but never had occasion to make any decisions in regard to that. USSR on the other hand had event of moving units from SIberia after they struck the deal with them. I didn't conquer Paris but there was event of "liberating" that city. Why my upgraded units struggling so much defeating basic corps ? Why conquering cities not affecting yours and opponents production ? Unfortunately, instead of being proper wargames, titles from this series are just ugly, with outdated UI, full of bugs frustrating softwares.