Europe isn't necessarily hard, it just requires a lot of risk. My strategy was to just kamikaze my way as far into Europe as I could with my beginning armies, breaking up the AI's reinforcement bonuses. I got pretty lucky in this early part of the game and didn't lose many territories back to the AI, which gave me time to bring in the 3 reinforcing armies and consolidate a hold on areas closer to England. I then held a line in Italy and Germany while sweeping down through spain and heading across the bottom of the map to Greece, then had the two separate fronts meet in eastern europe. Beat it one or two turns over the limit for the gold star that way
the -aid levels were odd. took me a minute to understand them. but the game is good. i'm hoping for another good game from the creator. 5/5 in my opinion