[narwan]

That would be true if the battles in north africa against the vichy french were really 'desert' battles. Which they mostly were not. There is a huge difference between the western desert and French north africa, particularly the area's of actual fighting (lot's of it in urbanised and rough and/or wooded area's). You know what one of the main reasons for the delayed advance into Tunisia was after the landings in Algeria? Mud. Hard to get that when you put GB vs GE in the map generator in end '42.

I've tried those extra steps and all they do is give you a map that is less unrealistic than mainland france but still short of suitable. Now off course I could go and make my own map but I don't like making maps, mostly because I'm not good at it, and even if I were to, I don't like playing on a map I know intimately. Again, takes an important part of fun out of it.

I understand that the Vichy OB will likely be limited to the actual historical dates of the existence of Vichy France, so no 'what-ifs' outside that (short of designing them specifically). But I'm still having a hard time seeing the problem about having the option to type '36' and get a map for new Caledonia, or '29' and get Syria, etc, when you've selected Vichy France as one of the combatants. Not having the ability to get suitable maps readily, like for other nations, for the different parts of Vichy France seems to me to undermine at least part of having the OB at all...