There must have been times when political or command indecision, an unwillingness to follow their major allies' lead, or just plain b***s ups, rendered national forces incapable of major offensive action for a week.
I reckon that's a good thing, and prevents anyone playing the scenario like it was a game of chess, with every unit doing everything you'd like every time you'd like.
If anything, the scenario's still too like that for my personal choice.
Think of yourself as Kesselring, supposedly commanding the entire Mediterranean region, extracting a promise from the Italians that they'd commit their fleet, or fight to the death to defend the coast of Sicily, or whatever, only to find that they'd actually done SFA.
I want you to be cursing that a formation won't move when you desperately want it to - same will be happening to your opponent.
This isn't just my personal whim - if you read something like Hitler's tabletop conferences, or Kesselring's autobiography, or Churchill's memoirs, this is the position in which the higher commands constantly found themselves.
