I had a more detailed look at the ITA invasion AI and doubled the weight values of any provinces they have there (but added no new provinces). Italian AI is very strongly set to defend Sicily, this may reduce their likelihood of attacking anything in the med.
Like I said I don't expect the Italian AI to overrun Egypt. But since they commit suicide with some of their divisions by sending them into 0% infra provinces without any obvious reason for more then a year resulting in a slowly death of this divisions they actually do worse than nothing. I'm not playing atm but I think Sicily wasn't that well defended at all (around 4 divisions per province). A good force but no reason for a total stand still on all other ITA fronts.
Other observations:
-The German submarines didn't manage to sink more than 2 escorts and 1 transport during 2 years on convoy raiding missions. On the other hand they sunk several destroyers (more than 10 I guess) and at least one of any other bigger chips, including one CV and 2 BBs!! I was wondering what would happen if they were set on naval interdiction. Atm. they seemed to be a little bit overpowered, especially since they achieved this with only minor losses.
-The USA joined the war late in 1941(I think September). A little bit to early but ok for the balance of the game.
-It seemed that the AI use of air units needs some improvements. I witnessed more than one fight were the AI send their planes to battle with less than 50% strength and next to zero organization.
-Finland only survived until Mid-End 1941. It was pupped after this which is way to early in my opinion. Then again I (Germany) didn't support Finland with more than 2-3 divisions.
-JAP vs CHI went well until the beginning of 1941. Then CHI collapsed within a few month and was a puppet of JAP by mid 1941.
-I was wondering about every stat of CV7 being bedder then that of CV8, WAD? In this case a little bit counter intuitive.
-Barbarossa is fun even as human player. Also I managed to completely wipe out the first front line by encircling , the SOV managed to pull troops together to slow down the advance deeper in Russia and even sometimes had local superiority. Since the USA joined the war this puts me under some pressure to finish the war in the east, before they can stage a landing in Europe.
-While I can remember that I had always problems with raw materials in the 0.41 version it seems this problem is completely gone by now. There is not one resource (not even oil) I have to worry about even before capturing the rich provinces of the SOV. Maybe there are to much resources atm?
-On resources again: Atm I have 32k money with a positive balance as Germany. This seems a little bit to much.
-In the research tap there are many (6-7) UNKNOWN_STRING entries in the column with the brigades.