Small Countries

[Allenby]

Can we honestly expect to get full information on the Orders of Battle, Ministers and Leaders for the very smallest and most unimportant countries? I'm rather sure that I'm not going to be able to get a comprehensive collection of information for countries like Ecuador, Nicaragua, Haiti and so on.

Should we treat each country as an individual, or should we draw up a list of countries for which we concentrate only a limited amount on?

Perhaps, as a minimum, we could find the smaller countries' heads of state, heads of government and then give them a single division for their army.

What countries should we assign the bare minimum? In the end, I wouldn't be happy putting hours of research into countries that I knew people wouldn't play as.

 

[unmerged(16020)]

I would be tempted to come up with random names in the appropiate country's language. Skill levels and traits would be added here and there as well. I'm not really bothered that much by whether or not the leaders are really Hondurans from that time period or not, I'm just bothered if I don't have ministers to switch around and leaders to assign.

For OOB's, just do whatever seems appropiate considering the country's size. I think all of them need at least a division of militia to symbolize that they aren't completely defenseless. If a country seems like it should have a few ships then add them and name them after cities or something.

 

[StephenT]

The easiest (if somewhat cynical) solution would be to leave them with their already-written WW2 vintage OOBs, leaders and ministers.

We could pretend that these are the fathers of the people running the country 20 years later.

Then if somebody from Ecuador or wherever complains, we can incorporate their information into version 2.0...