Yeah it was a Axis mistake in the end that they loose the war. A very big stack of air power units were in russia instead close to berlin.
That would be a game over for the allies for sure.
It was a pretty close one.
Germany was very strong and conquered Moscow twice.
The Axis conquered the Suez and Turkey joined the Axis.
Germany also had always 4-6 Uboats in the atlantic and sometimes a large Navy force aswell.
For a long time the Axis were always close to win with the VP points and Japan always rather retreated their Navy than sacrifing them in small battles.
In the end all i can say to that is. With the old rule the Axis would loose in the end because there were around 8 Tanks + 1 Figther + 1 Artillery in Berlin at the end of the germany summer 1945 turn.
Without it they won
This was the first game to the bitter end. And i'm very suprised Mark, it's really the best game out there :-)
Will make pictures on next game for sure