Axis and Allies
I wanted to just make a little side update to give you guys an idea of what I'm up against, and what's on my side. Give some troop numbers, show some pictures on who owns what and so forth.
Japan: My strongest ally has the largest army in the world, six and a half million men, larger than the Soviet and German armies combined. However, at least 50% of their divisions are static garrison divisions, probably closer to 60% or 70%. For a prime example of this, the Balikpapan theater has 4.3 million men, but I didn't see any more than 15 divisions (around 180k men) that were mainline. That is probably too generous though. Granted, that means the Americans will have a hard time taking any islands, but it also means the Soviets can keep their strength in the west. When you add in their puppet states who combine to have a little over 800 thousand men, and the Japanese troops in Eastern/Northern China, you get about 1.3 million men, but probably just under a million face the Soviets. The IJN is one of the larger navies in the world, but still dwarfed by the USN and somewhat the RN. While still possessing a large number of capital line ships
There's a further 180k in India, opposed to 70k British, and maybe 30k Nepalese and Tibetans. The Japanese Empire has captured the entire Southern half of India, most of Indonesia, most of New Guinea, Wake Island, and some fragments of the USSR's Far East.
The IJN is one of the larger navies in the world, but still dwarfed by the USN and somewhat the RN. It still possesses a large number of capital line ships: Schlachtschiffs (Battleships), Schlachtkreuzers (Battlekreuzers), Schwerer Kreuzers (Heavy Cruisers), and even a Superschweres Schlachtschiff (Super Heavy Battleship). Last time I checked before this though, they had more like 8 Battleships and maybe twice as many cruisers, so I would assume they've been in a few slugfests with the American, Australian, and British navies. They appear to have lost all but one Flugzeugrager (Aircraft Carrier) and most of their Zerstorers (Destroyers) and Leichter Kreuzers (Light Cruisers), this of course is very dangerous to the safety of the rest of the fleet.
Italy: My second most powerful ally, 288 thousand men in Italy and Dalmatia, 346k in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean, 260k in North Africa, 160k in East Africa, and a further 200k under German command. This totals around 1.2 million, and unlike the Japanese, there is an even balance between static and line divisions. Their army has successfully captured all of British North and East Africa, and is seemingly prepared to cross the Suez into British Middle East and Iraq. If more troops are needed in the East, Italy will be the first to be drawn from.
Axis Minors: I can also draw yet more troops from my smaller Axis members. Currently, the only ones with sizable forces not under my command are Hungary and Yugoslavia, but Romania has a surplus of manpower and can be drawn from in the future. Yugoslavia has around 150k under equipped troops sitting in their country, and these could very well be used to plug gaps in the line soon. Hungary is the most powerful of all the smaller axis nations, possessing a massive air force and a 400 thousand plus man army. As soon as the game decides to give them back their expeditionary forces for reorganization I can utilize their troops alongside the Yugoslavs and Romanians in Operation Tatar. After these two big suckers we have Romania and Bulgaria. Romania has 40 thousand men left in their country, with around 100 thousand more along the Dniester, with 240 manpower left they can feasibly make more divisions to help in the war effort. Bulgaria on the other hand has 150 thousand men about to march into Turkey and then to the Caucasus, 20-30 thousand in their country, and zip manpower. These two nations are also rather poor when it comes to men and equipment quality, resulting in piss poor fighting ability unless sent en masse. Finland is done, we know this, 3 divisions will be evacuated with my men, but they are finished besides that. Slovakia, two anti-partisan divisons; Denmark, HAHA; Indochina, lol; Iceland, also funny; Belgium on the other hand... Belgium has 100 thousand men in Central Africa fighting the British and South Africans, and are being very successful, they can work with the Italians and let me focus elsewhere.
Britain, America, Canada: The Western Allies have been repeatedly crushed by Army Group West, with each losing large forces in the process. Canada only has one division left overseas, and America still seems unwilling to come out from their isolation. America has around a million men, but any offensive action by them is unforeseeable until their new fleet is assembled. Six new Battleships, eight new Carriers, and a massive carrier borne air fleet. When this is put together with their already formidable fleet, which includes 249 destroyers, no one could dream of shutting them down. Britain is the odd duck of these three, possessing an inadequate army and ever shrinking fleet to defend and ever shrinking empire, an empire that one can already see the sun slowly setting on. Great Britain cannot hold India, New Guinea, or the Middle East. Their offensive in Norway is being brought to a halt thanks to reinforcements from France, and they don't possess enough extra men to invade France again. All they can hope to do is defeat the 12th Armee in Norway and then move on to Mainland Europe from there.