I've always ignored the US divisions that went to Yugoslavia, myself.
The whole Italians-and-Greeks switching sides seemed farfetched to me, at least as much as the Mexican invasion of the USA. Maybe one of these events happening, but all three? Italy or Greece trying to sit the war out and joining France in a 3rd bloc seemed more like it to me. Actually attacking the NATO Med. Fleets seemed pretty dumb, but not as dumb as invading Austria and Southern Germany.
I was a college freshman in 1986-87, and there was a Greek kid in my dorm. He told me the Greeks were occasionally working up for a war with the Turks, with Constantinople as the objective. I played that with both Gulf Strike (VG) and Third World War: Southern Front (GDW), it was a fair match without NATO getting involved on either side.
(sidebar: Someday, in a WWII alternate game, I'd like to try a Greek-Italian alliance vs. Turkey someday. Say, in 1938 or '39 or even '40, instead of Italy attacking Greece. I have all of GDW's Europa series, so the OBs are available.)
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My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
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