marcuswatney
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THE NETHERLANDS: A nation's capital is defined as its seat of government, not its largest or most famous city. Thus the capital of Australia is Canberra not Sydney. And the capital of the Netherlands is The Hague not Amsterdam. If you look at the German drop-zones when they attacked the Netherlands, they put a lot of effort into capturing The Hague (and the Queen), and ignored Amsterdam. Fortunately, correcting this error is simple, as both Amsterdam and the Hague are in the same hex.
BORNHOLM: Bornholm is Danish and should be SE of Malmo. It was 'liberated' by the Russians in 1945, and there were some worries they would not give it back. They did.
MEMEL: Memel was a part of Lithuania until annexed by Germany on 23 March 1939 (it had been annexed by Lithuania in 1923). Since the game includes such features as the Sudetenland, implying a pre-war start, Memel should also be noted as able to change hands.
SOUTHAMPTON: Southampton is very close to Portsmouth, inland and to the north of the Isle of Wight. Perhaps for game purposes it needs to be in its own hex separate from Portsmouth. If so, perhaps the English coastline (and the Isle of Wight) could be shifted a bit westward? Note that the forest hex represents the New Forest, which is actually west of Southampton.
ISLES OF SCILLY: missing.
RYBACHI PENINSULA: remove the red line NE hexside of Petsamo. The peninsula was shared between Finland and USSR. Is the glacier-type terrain between Petsamo and Murmansk impassable? They did try to fight here, though not very effectively.
HANKO: On my atlas, English spelling is Hango (leased to USSR after Winter War).
VYBORG: On my British 1936/1942 map, Viipuri.
FINNISH BORDERLANDS: My 1942 atlas shows the one around Lake Ladoga is far too big. The problem is that Lake Ladoga is badly drawn: it is more rectangular than square. Along the north cost of the lake, the Soviets annexed only a corridor varying in width between 10 and 20 miles. All they wanted was the railway line that comes up from Leningrad, and which skirts the lake.
DANZIG: Danzig was not part of the Polish Corridor, being a free city under the League of Nations. After all, the Polish Corridor was a corridor owned by Poland leading to the sea at Gdynia.
SLOVAKIA: Slovakia became an 'independent' country (capital Bratislava) and a German minor ally in March 1939 as Germany invaded Bohemia-Moravia (what is now the Czech Republic): if the Sudetenland warrants a border, so too should Slovakia with Bohemia-Moravia. The northeast hexes of Hungary (Ruthenia) were actually a part of Slovakia until autumn 1938 - at the time of Munich, Slovakia had a border with Romania. So these hexes should be shown as negotiable, just like the Sudetenland.
CHERSO: southest of Pola, principal island (Cherso) was Italian.
AEGEAN: Mytilene (Lesbos) is Greek. The only Turkish island in the Aegean is Imbros (not shown, it is east of Lemnos). The unnamed island NE of Leros is Samos and very Greek - better to remove it than suggest it is Turkish, causing our Greek friends offence.
SMYRNA: After capture by Turks in the twenties, renamed Izmir
GREECE: Patras not Patrai
MIDDLE EAST: In 1936/1942 Jordan's name was Transjordan, because it was over the Jordan river. It took over the West Bank (rather reluctantly, as the Bedouin are very different from the Palestinians) only between 1948 and 1967. The map as drawn at present suggests Jordan includes the West Bank: might be better to give that hex to Palestine. I really don't think Lebanon's hills warrant mountain status: the mountains end in the hex north of Alexandretta. I confirm that Tel Aviv existed in 1936: on my map it is shown as a suburb of Jaffa.
NORTH AFRICA: Fez is a significant Moroccan city. There was a short rail-line south from Algiers, and a longer one south from Constantine. The Tunisian Chott extends into Algeria. I agree with the change of Er Rif to Spanish Morocco. By 1936, International Settlement of Tangier had shrunk to about the size of Gibraltar. More accurate to have it moved one hex west. I agree that it should be considered de facto under Spanish control. Rabat a bit too close to border with Spanish Morocco (relative to Casablanca).
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