Originally posted by Jester
There is NO WAY to have 3 sides in the CT. First thing you will have some dweebs log-on in here and everything will go to HELL in a handbasket and we will have two MA's open. However, we CAN have two fronts - they will just both be the same figure on the chessboard. Sorry, try the MA if you want 3 sides. Be a pain in the kazoo to set up but can be done.
Dweebs log on in the CT every day/night. Heh.
Here's why it wouldn't be "like the MA.":
Each of the three sides would still have a country (or countires) specific planeset and the map itself could point those sides to a common goal.
As Artik has pointed out the Soviet forces and the US/British forces would be on opposite sides of the German forces ... pushing in.
Even where Soviet force bases come closest to their Allies, there was actually somewhat of a "cold war" atmosphere already forming in the final months of the war. There are accounts of Soviet and US air units engaging each other (even with apparent knowledge of who each other were). Non-Soviet Allied planes that made emergency landings at Soviet fields were confiscated and the pilots/crews held in custody. And although the opposite wasn't true .... it could easily have been.
And yes .. the chance of seeing alliances shift is not totally out of the picture. I find it a fascinating dynamic to consider. Consider Patton's apparent desire to take on the Soviets with the aid of defeated German units after the war. I'd say the first instance of a supposed "Allied" player attacking an ally (Soviet or US or British the aggressor .... doesn't matter) then the German command should consider another attempt on Hitler and make overtures to either the West or East for armistice. Then WWIII can proceed accordingly.
