Fox on the Rhine/Fox at the Front Universe

I haven't read this yet, but looking at the first map in this thread I see that while Czechia is part of the western block, Greece and Norway did become Communist. Which means that the Soviets will have access to the Atlantic and the Med. Will this become a topic in the books?

I'm no expert for this kind of AH, but IRL the US & NATO were concerned that the Soviets might get a foothold in these seas. Russia's always been a land-based power, but still.

As said in 2021, there is so much better out there than the equivalent of the Burger King of AH. There are absolutely scenarios where we could see a Soviet Norway and Greece, even though it would take a particularly incompetent Western Allies to get both. However, this isn’t just one bug in an otherwise well crafted, realistic, well written and well researched work, but one of multiple features that don’t hold up well 20 years later, either in comparison to other professionally published WW2 AH or that written on forums.

I like Niles and Dobson’s works for AD&D and TSR from the 1980s-mid 1990s. Niles can write a very good fantasy battle sequence, portray the sweep of broad events intersecting with individual characters and develop a semi-complex (for 80s fantasy!) plot competently. Both blokes were good game designers. Yet despite these abilities, making the jump to WW2 and AH proved to be too much of a leap for them. It was a huge disappointment to read coming from someone who had appreciated their stuff since childhood/for quarter of a century.

FotR didn’t come across as similar in style to the previous work of either man and, dealing with the real world and well covered history, runs into areas that didn’t come up in other genres, such as logistics and technical limitations. To be honest, I could see echoes of TSR’s 1980s Battlesystem miniature wargame rules coming through in decisions and focus; a lot of fair stuff on tactics, but a great deal of handwavium on strategy. Like Burger King or any fast food hamburger equivalent, the book hits some points through the literary/military historical equivalents of fat, salt and sugar, but isn’t good for you and can’t really be described as good quality.

It certainly hasn’t aged particularly well, but can be viewed in the context of published AH in that period of the early 2000s.

It's also the scenario of this timeline: Watching From San Diego - A Two for One July 20th 1944 TL