We're playing pretty much the kitchen sink on the optional rules, with just a few left out. I can try to post a summary in a future post on this thread.
Basically we got as far as France working on their setup when the game crashed for me. I don't know what forbesclan's experience was as yet. For me the most interesting part is China - I still don't have a good sense of how to play China with the new maps, so I guess it will be educational to try to attack someone else's setup first.

With the crash, will be interesting to see if this game can even be restarted, but anyways, I got to play WiF on Monday night, even if only for a little while.
I think I'll plan to leave strategy notes behind and come back after there's no spoilers and fill them in - forbes, perhaps you'd like to do the same? Might make this more interesting in the long run.
Anyways, just a starter thread for now. More to come!