Question Re Red, Blue and Green OOBs

[zastava128]

Originally Posted by Akmatov

See, this just reinforces the need for Switzerland. If Sweden can make the cut, surely those cheese-making, yodeling bankers should have an OOB!

Well I have the impression that the designers wanted the game to be more-or-less historically accurate. Hence no Sealion in the German campaign, for example.

If Switzerland was included, one could also make the case to include Turkey (both sides tried to get it to join), or Denmark (what if they had tried to fight?), or Portugal (could have potentially joined the Axis had Franco done so). Personally I don't think any of them are worth doing - they're too "what if".

As for countries that actually did participate in the war, and weren't discussed before:

Albania would be interesting, but good luck finding literature on their equipment.

Croatia was a joint Italian-German puppet state that had some 260,000+ men at peak strength, and also sent troops to the Eastern Front. A few units representing them do exist in the current Yugoslav OOB, and I tried to add more, but it didn't really feel right, and was very confusing. I do have enough material to make a proper custom OOB for them, and will post it sometime in the future.

Ethiopia of course was invaded by Italy, but also had a strong resistance movement that helped the Brits drive the Italians out. Like I said above, I might be able to make some sort of OOB sometime in the future, though information is hard to come by. But a more serious problem is, would they have any chance against the Italians? How would they stop Italian tanks, when 80+ percent of their troops didn't even have Hand Grenades?

Finally, Iran and Iraq both fought against the allies in 1941, but the conflicts were so quick and one sided it's really not worth it.