While I agree on the 3 to 1 front, the low representation of the Pacific theater and only the Army being representative, Eisenhower and Montgomery are responsible for the Normandy landings as you know them; both immediately wanted to expand the initial plan they were presented with and were heavily involved with the new plans with the greater scope. Montgomery took commander of all ground forces for the entirety of Operation Overlord, and continued commanding all of the British forces (as well as ordering other Allied forces, including American) after Eisenhower took command of all Allied forces post-Overlord. He was also a key player in the planning and commanded the invasion of Sicily and Italy, as well as leading the African theater from the back and forth fight to a complete victory. You might not have known about him, but he was certainly important to the war and his impact was far from negligible. I don't think his removal would be warranted, an additional inclusion like hkrommel mentioned would be much more appropriate.
If I take iconic out of the equation I would take G.C. Marshall, would be interesting if they replaced them with Naval leaders. Personally I would put Cunningham, Raeder, Nimitz, and replace USSR with Yamamoto of course. How about everyone else? I picked Raeder over Doenitz because after reading into his Strategic mindset I believe him to be a much more capable war leader at that level then Doenitz.
Alexander Novikov will do, the Chief Marshal of the RED Air Force for most of the GPW (as it is called in Russia).
Milch was a bureaucrat not a "leader" on the ground, the most famous Luftwaffe leaders are - Wolfram von Richthofen (a WW1 ace and cousin to the famous Richtofen family) who was an exceptionally well qualified leader with a doctorate in Aeronautics engineering but was due to the above mentioned "Milch" sidelined from aircraft procurement. He later was commander of a "Fleigerkorps", something like an Air Army. Also Werner Molders (died too early) and Adolf Galland are very famous as leaders of the Jagdwaffe (fighter aircraft).I'd take Novikov anyday, for Air leaders I was thinking Dowding, Milch (if he lived longer Wever instead), Spaatz, and Novikov.
While I think that Monty's generalship was good, I completely agree with your assessment of his character. He was an arrogant, narcissistic, socially inept jerk.
Good reasoning, but since this game is mostly targeted to western audience, those 4 chaps are more regornisable ones. Not everybody reads history, but everybody has heard about Rommel and many have heard about Montgomery, Patton (wait... that guy is McArthur...) and Chukov.
Agreed, during WW2, it very uncommon NOT to be racist. So it is just stupid to think badly of someone at the time becouse he was racist, they all were. USA even had legal racism until 1960s.
