I go on vacation....and it ends. But, I can see why it did. It is kind of funny actually, that after I read your last 5 posts, that my sympathy with your cause was starting to shift. You were no longer the underdog. I agree with your assessment of the interesting and intriguing parts of the campaign. The war with the Nationalists/Japan was by far the most riveting. There was always the chance of reverses. I thought that you bit off more than you could chew with the Soviets, and that made the story compelling. When you finally went to war simultainiously with Germany, I actually thought the end could be near again and that kept me reading. You came up with a fitting end for Li Lishen, and my references to the Mongol hordes and the collapse of their empire became a self fullfilling prophecy. My hat is off to you Myth. You did an excellant job in writing this story, even if gameplay did drive the story in the end, it did not in the beginning. And, like a aging athlete, you stepped away from it at exactly the right time. I look foward to your next work.