My thoughts exactly ..... In this game Canada has nothin but 5 transport 1 dd and an 1918 upgrading to 1936 in the 1936 senario. where as in 1936 alot more the one army group was formed and alot more ships and transports.
back to topic yeah in the case of UK they had multiple roles
example
United Kindom
Home land =command
North Africa =command
South East asia =command
At this time Canada was shipping thousands of tons of supplies to UK and canada at this time and now is a resource rich country more so then this game would have it.
developing inrastructre in real life helps the production of resources by haveing the basic transportation of goods fast and more effective roads means 1million barrels make it to market a day then 10 million barrels. try dringing truck in the mud and then dringing truck on the road now times that by 10,000 km to market and shipping. infrastructure is vital to the production of raw materails ( oil metals and consumer goods )
Hey I like war games and country biulding sims but a country is only as good as its ability to ---> collect keep use and find resources.....
collect - extract from your own country
keep - storage and defend
use - get the supplies to where they need to be ( infrastructure )
that inculdes war and peace production
how can you make a tank when your metal is stuck on some crappy road
and find resource some countrys forest industry is bleak like CHINA and some are very important like in Canada
prospecting still goes on and the ability to find and market more resource is just standard economics.
oops off topic summary
Coop is cool Canada is a country I normally role play ( meaning not a war monger but a resource provider for war mongers )
and Canada has and had the regimental system not 1st Canadian Army Corp
more like .... lets see if I can past a few links
http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/allied/canadianarmy/
I took one from a UK site as to keep perpestive Ill get a local one from edmonton ...
http://www.lermuseum.org/ler/mh/index.html
The Loyal Edmonton Regiment ( which I served in 1997-1998 )
I could post more but in the end it will show that for a country of only 20 million at the time more then 1 million fought overseas
Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s said
"conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription"
including this bit which suprised me...
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was a military rising originating in Morocco, headed by General Francisco Franco.
Over twelve hundred Canadian soldiers supporting Republican Spain took part in the Spanish Civil War to defend the Spanish Republic against the military rebellion led by General Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. These men created a unique military unit: the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the XVth International Brigade of the Spanish Republican Army: 'the Mac-Paps.'
http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmil/spancw/index.html?o_xid=0039432393&o_lid=0039432393
more from the same page
Some 16,000 gave their lives fighting fascism. The contingents were approximtely
* France, 10,000
* Germany, 5,000
* Poland, 4,000
* Italy, 3,500
* U.S. and Britain, 2,500 each
* Belgium, 1700
* Czechoslovakia, 1,500
* Canada, 1,200
* Yugoslavia, 1,200
* Latin America, 1,000
* Hungary, 1,000
* Scandinavia, 1,000
* Holland, 600
* Switzerland, 400
well to wrap it up most games can never bring all history into a game; real life is far to complex... but Canada having only one army unit ... and dismal resource value.... most of the united stats Uranmium came from Canada in fact there is a city northern Saskachewan called Uranium city
http://www.interlog.com/~grlaird/uraniumcity.html
"$550-million-a-year uranium industry — the world’s single largest exporter"
excerp from web page.
oh well Canada was always known in those days as going from easily
going Dove to Hawk
Canadas ability to mobilies militia into an effective fighting force was evident in many military theaters.
I covered alot .... better wrap it up.
I like the game and hope to game with you guys some day.
you can take all what I said today with a grain of salt... I pushed the game hard to bring Canada out of peace mode and into war mode but it is not possible in this format. oh yeah Canadas ship biulding was made crazy during WW2.
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