Does anybody ever...

[MJF]

Play a game, regular 1936 or Vanguard, as Germany and built no factories?

I don't believe I've ever tried. Seems you'd have to crank out the infra and judiciously build units earlier than normal. Then you have to upgrade...?

Decades ago (?) I remember Blue Emu in the HOI II forum pointing out the obvious: 5 IC to build a factory is 5 years worth of a 1 IC result, but that doesn't include the bump from bonuses.

 

[Mr_B0narpte]

And theres political sliders to factor in, alongside effectiveness. I remember one (very number crunching) player saying that a factory in Tokyo pays itself off in a year - when Japan is at full central planning.

 

[Oxienergie]

I know somebody, me!
I have been playing the "normal" HoI2 that comes with Darkest Hour for the last 15 years and I never build IC in 1936 scenario as Germany. That is mostly because playing in Very Hard means -40% on IC, so you only get 0.6 IC from a new factory and it's just not worth it.
I remember Blue Emus calculations on this as well, but I think they were based on Normal difficulty level.
I also play with over stockpile loss activated so I cannot mass ressources before war and would run out of rare material in early 1942 if I had any more IC.

I only stumbled accros AoD last week and I was surprised that "Very Hard" does not give any Minus on IC for the player.
So it's common practice even on Very Hard to build IC as Germany 1936?

 

[MJF]

Great Q. That’s mine too. Most players of AOD have moved to Discord rather than this forum. Quite active there.

 

[Blecky]

I don´t play AoD vanilla, only CORE mod, but there I build infra only as Germany, you won´t have enough resources otherwise to fuel your IC.

 

[Czarina Julie]

Can't one tweak/change the modifiers (e.g. central planning, political sliders, etc.) within the misc.txt file?
If not, what modifiers/variables would people like (if any) added to the misc.txt file?

 

[Czarina Julie]

I don´t play AoD vanilla, only CORE mod, but there I build infra only as Germany, you won´t have enough resources otherwise to fuel your IC.

I do have CORE working in the upcoming AoD 1.13 release.