Looks like the Patch is out - first impressions?

[Vypuero]

Yeah algeria doesnt capitulate - just take the cities and ignore the rest of it

[IrishGuards]

Thx
IDG

[Bossy573]

ORIGINAL: Boar
The oil consumption rule makes for a completely different game, but also needs some tempering, as it's pretty devastating to the Axis.

Agreed. There doesn't seem to be a balance. I conquered every Oil producing hex on the map and every one of the Allies were running at 999 oil while the Axis continued to scrape and conserve. I can buy the U.S.A having an almost bottomless supply but what if the German navy is successful in the Atlantic? Shouldn't oil availability in Great Britain suffer? Shouldn't the Allied commitments around the globe and even domestically be considered?

All that said, I was amazed to be going into 1942 (playing the Axis) and having to choose between Central Russia and Southern Russia for an offensive. I can't remember playing a game which, on its own, mirrored the exact choice available to the Axis at the time and me then making the same choice as the Germans did. It would have been really, really, REALLY cool to have had the Russians build up at Stalingrad as a counter to my drive into the Caucuses. But I don't want to get greedy about it...... [;)]