So, truth be told, I am playing a free version, so, I can't say what is going on in the full one.
But, through backtracking and replaying, I've struck the best possible German gambit
Narvik-Ardennes-Merkury-Malta-Japanese in the Far East, no America, and finally, seizing Moscow
This automatically makes my situation better than the German one. So, I dug in and decided to go for oil directly, avoiding Stalingrad. For whatever reason, I still got Uranus, though I wasn't even in the city, and somehow got Kursk without first getting Kharkov.
The capture of Moscow, though by no means a final blow should allow me to launch a more successful operation later on, don't want to throw in historical data around, as it will pollute the discussion with walls of text. But still.
So, the determinism and lack of options in the scenario are rather bad and ruin the experience; I don't know if more branching would be added later on.
Also, the writing could see some improvement away from the overly official ChatGPT style.
