The polish and france 40 battles for some nations are deliberately slowed down, or you would be off to the desert in 41 by battle 3 or so.
You will also notice jumps to a correct date - e.g. after france 40, to the desert skipping intervening months when nobody was fighting. or a 6/43 battle will take you to Sicily as fighting ended in Tunisia in May.
Thanks for the quick reply, that puts my mind at ease and I happen to agree that in the earlier SPWW2 game the initial battles in Europe were over to quickly
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