RE: Fanatical nations rule
Berlin '45 is quite a subject, but would be a bit rough on the German player.
Back in the day there was a board game that covered the last months of the war, with one player playing the Soviets and the Germans on the Western Front, and the other playing the Western Allies and the Germans on the Eastern front. Scale was corps- and division-sized units and it worked quite well. I have trouble imagining that at the scale of Panzer Campaigns.
Olympic (or any of the late war island battles) could be a vehicle for fanaticism. But I still would rather see the Japanese blitzkrieg in Malaya leading up to the fall of Singapore, or the various phases of the fighting in Burma as a subject for taking Panzer Campaigns to the Pacific (the Soviet invasion of Manchuria might work, Khalkin Gol might work, and there were battles between the Japanese and Chinese that had enough movement and light tanks in them to be interesting).
And then there's always the Chaco War...
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