Soviet Union and natural resources

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Just dropping in to say that the way resources (oil, especially) are spread out in the Soviet Union is quite odd, Baku, for example, while posessing large reserves of oil, is made in CORE to provide most of the Soviet Union's oil at a staggering 218 oil per day! Whereas Siberia, which should have plenty of oil, is shown to posses only small and spread out reserves of it.

I know its nitpicky, but I just think its a bit silly that Azerbaijan produces more oil than Russia, it also makes it too easy for a German player to make up for his lack of oil simply by capturing Baku during Barbarossa. A German player should be driven to deal with the immensity of Russia should he desire to maintain a good supply of Oil.

 

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Whilst there is oil in Siberia, in the 1930s and 1940s, it was undeveloped and production of Oil there was basically non-existent. The distribution of resources in CORE represents the 1930s/1940s timeframe distribution of production, not modern day distribution. That is why (for example) Saudi Arabia has basically no oil.

Soviet Oil production on the late 1930s looked roughly like this :-

Maikop 19 Million barrels / yr
Grozny 32 Million barrels / yr
Baku 170 Million barrels / yr

And that is pretty much it for Soviet Oil production.

Tim

 

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And, if I remember correctly, one of the main goals of Germany in Barbarossa was to get to Baku to capture the oil from the Soviet. So it is actually reallistic the way it is now.