Just played the final version, a very interesting game to say the least:
I played Argentina, I built up my forces against Brazil. Brazil allied Bolivia. I allied Peru. Peru left me some months later even though I still have military control over their government. Argentina has some very nice events for a regional power.
Then all hell broke loose. I noticed my excellent relationship with the Germans, and there was a 56% chance of becoming their ally. And so I did, in the hope of getting great blueprints. Then this happened:
- American civil war, America wins easily.
- Early war against France (which I am technically a part of)
- Chile joins me
- I declare war on Brazil and Bolivia
- German colonies go crazy and declare war and independence, but:
- Burma was allied with Germany, so when Vietnam became independent and Germany let them go, Vietnam allied with Burma after it had a Syndicalist coup. For a while Vietnam was in an alliance with Germany through Burma. This alliance broke for some reason. But right now Germany is still officially at war with Sri Lanka and Sarawak together with Vietnam, Burma and Syndicalist India. That's where the alliance ends though. Vietnam is not at war with France, but is at war with Canada. For Germany this is the other way around.
- America declares war on Belarus, which also seems to suffer from partisans in its national provinces. I believe this war was caused because of my declaration of war on Brazil: the USA guaranteed their independence, something I assumed they quit doing during the civil war but I was very wrong. That civil war barely lasted a few months.
- America does attack me, sort of: every week it attacks Chile's harbor with one carrier ship. It's more of a nuisance.
- After two+ years Germany annexes France and divides it. The Union of Britain immediately annexes Brittany for the fun of it.
- I encounter only one American garrison at the Panama Canal Zone. That was my first real battle with the Americans.
- I advance through Central America, and I declare war on Mexico:
By now America starts doing something, something very annoying, they attack my advancing divisions with airplanes. They are quite effective actually. Mexico is barely a match for Argentina but I already lost an entire division due to neglecting my air defenses.
Now it is 1940:
I cannot really advance into Mexico all the way to the American border, the USA has like 320+ IC and I have 101 and a lot less divisions. Germany will not be able to help me, I loaded the game as Germany and I noticed they have zero convoys left. They will probably fight a Phoney War with the Union of Britain till the end of days. Unless Canada somehow manages to conquer them. I have a hard time believing this. Oh and Japan became super-democratic and built itself an alliance of liberal Asians.
Now I am going to find out how I can win a war against the USA with only technological help from Germany, I guess it's a dead end?