<t> I'm not sure what criteria has to be met for a Vichy France, but every campaign game I have played up to this point (only Italy as human controlled) the German AI has trouble meeting this requirement versus historical timeline. My current game was the longest yet for the event to occur, it was ...

<t> Some of us want to game a somewhat historical campaign, but the only ingame option (short of re-writing codes) is adjusting the PP capacity of countries. I was assuming medium would be the most historical accurate, but apparently not. <br/>
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Case in point - America has declared war on the ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Razz<br/>
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Stalin was not prepared to start a war with Hitler.<br/>
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There is no way he would have made the first move.<br/>
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Remember, any who disagreed with him was in Siberian prison camps or dead in the ground.
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<t> Had the same thing happen, Russia attacked about a year earlier than the historical Barbarossa event.&nbsp; All three Baltic states are independent and Germany was still busy with France - even with the original install with AI playing them it was always&nbsp; after September '40 that Vichy ...

My copy is from Matrix and had no problems with using the code key.&nbsp; Launching the beta v1.01 and found my saved games there, and was even able to open and play the ones that were crashing the game back to desktop - cool.

I can still play the game, just have to use the save game option quite often - like both at the beginning and ends of turns as well as in the battles.

<t> Getting a lot of desktop crashes. Sometimes I can play several turns before it happens and other times the game crashes even before it can finish loading a saved game. I do have the latest patch and have tried the 1.2.26 Beta update. My comp more than meets the min. system requirements. Can it ...