The accompanying graphic show the visual differences in them.
There are differences in them, especially on how they are conquered :
- To conquer a Territory, you must control every city and port in that territory. If it has no ports or cities, you need to control every hex instead (example no ports or cities : Santa Cruz Islands).
- To conquer a Home Country (exceptions for Italy and France), you must control its capital plus every printed factory hex in that home country.
Major Powers are those powers that can be played by the WiF FE players.
Minor Countries are the other countries. They can be Aligned by other Minor Countries or Major Powers :
- either at the start of the game : i.e. the USA Major Power controls the Philippines Minor Country, or, on the illustration, El Rif Minor Country is controlled (Aligned) by Spain Minor Country,
- or when an enemy declare war on them : i.e. Poland Minor Country is Aligned by the CW Major Power when Germany Major Power declares war to it
- or as the consequences of political actions linked to some military result : i.e. Turkey can Align to Germany if Germany reaches the Caucasus and the Turkey Border).
Minor Countries can have armies that the controlling (Aligning) major power controls, with some restrictions.
Minor countries that are Aligned can have factories and resources that are added to their controlling major power total for Production : i.e. Belgim has 1 factory and 1 resource that can be used by its Aligning Major Power, provided that they are still friendly controlled when the Production Phase arises (unlikely).
Minor Countries can also be conquered, and in that case their army is not controlled by the conqueror, and only their Red Factories (not the Blue ones) and their Oil & Resources can be used by the conqueror.
Also, Minor Countries Capitals are supply sources for their controlling Major Power.
Same for the Territories, who rarely (I could say "never" but am not sure) have armies, and by definition have no capital.
By the Way, Steve, Aden should be transformed into a Minor Country. It's Capital (Aden) has acquired the Capital status in the latest (2004) maps. It was a mistake that is now corrected). It is still a Territory on the MWiF maps (Aden city is not a capital, only a city).
The words in Brackets next to the Minor Country or Territory name indicate who control them at start (CW, Ja, Ge, USA, Fr...). Example, in the ilustration bellow, the Balearic Territory is controlled by Spain, who is neutral (controlled by no one at the game start). Gibraltar Territory is controlled by the CW. Sardinia Territory is controlled by Italy.
