How feasible is this run?

[Barron of Gondor]

So I’m curious how feasible a Cold War play style is.

Not THE Cold War.

But a vanilla run where you try to limit conflicts from breaking out, sell your weapons on the international market, espionage and coups.

This a viable strategy?

 

[marcelo r. r.]

No, in the end game the weapons demand fall dramatically and you rarely sell anything, only thing still sell is planes.

In reality there is a problem: to have demand for weapons you need wars. If you "keep the peace" by selling weapons, they will not be needed.

The utility i found for market is turn a side stronger without lend-lease, if you keep selling basic stuff to german between 1939~1942, its become the "super germany" by 1943-1944.

 

[Barron of Gondor]

No, in the end game the weapons demand fall dramatically and you rarely sell anything, only thing still sell is planes.

In reality there is a problem: to have demand for weapons you need wars. If you "keep the peace" by selling weapons, they will not be needed.

The utility i found for market is turn a side stronger without lend-lease, if you keep selling basic stuff to german between 1939~1942, its become the "super germany" by 1943-1944.

What about espionage, and coups?

That make the run any fun?

 

[jacekgk]

This is totally not my style (I prefer fast playtroughs with quick wars), but I think - if You are pretty familiar with these mechanics and try something different, it could be fun. I think, Taureor made some videos on that style? I can find only this video:

which is very old, but I think there's more content like this from other creators.
One mention: I tried once break the game, selling volunteers all over the world. I screw propably because I picked a country with tons of internal problems - USSR - and I don't have a divided attention. But I think it is interesting idea as well and the scenario is probably similar to the Cold War.

 

[Kanitatlan]

The short answer is that it has been done and isn't completely ridiculous but of course you just reach the end of the game having sold lots of weapons. Not quite sure what the objective would be.

 

[Arheo]

In reality there is a problem: to have demand for weapons you need wars. If you "keep the peace" by selling weapons, they will not be needed.

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[Barron of Gondor]

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