The infamy doesn't matter much but I've found that when you go over 4 or 5 militancy bad things can start to happen, like over half your army joining rebels. I'll get to that in another update though.
Chapter 20: The Usual Suspects
You've probably picked up on the pattern in North America by now. Every 5 years I go to war with Mexico, the CSA, the U.S. and Great Britain. Most of these countries with the exception of Great Britain are pretty easy to beat now and the British aren't too difficult to beat either, it just takes a long time to get the war score up by occupying regions. After taking Japan I give my armies a couple of months to rest and I start to recruit more brigades and build more dreadnaughts so that my navy may one day challenge Great Britain. My truce with Mexico had expired by now but the communists had already taken control of the country and rather than having to fight the commies I figured I would just wait until they won the revolution a few months later.
I try to get Jalisco and Morelia out of the war as I should be able to afford both regions should I get a war score of 100. If I am able to take Jalisco I will only need to take Yucatan in the next war in order to create a highway for my troops to reach Central America and start conquering down there. Mexico has no brigades since they were just taken over, however they do mobilize. The mobilized troops don't put up much of a fight and I am easily able to fend them off and take their land. I even have enough troops to spare to start another war with the CSA. Also, notice that the Fascists have taken control of the United States.
I thought I could get Georgia and North Carolina out of this war and get myself that much closer to annexing the CSA. The CSA is somehow able to mobilize a bunch of troops that my forces are only able to contain, looks like I'll have to wait until my war in Mexico ends before I can work to wipe them out. It doesn't take long for me to gain control in Mexico and take those regions down south though.
Now that I can focus my entire military on the CSA I am able to surround them and wipe them out in two main battles. I'm not exactly sure why I took so many casualties in Louisville since I had the defensive edge but I still pulled out a win there which took out the remain confederates. After that it was just me sweeping in and occupying regions.
A few months later
Now with Mexico and the CSA under control it's time to move on to the other SA.
Another easy war, just me fighting mobilized forces, I manage to occupy all of the North American regions they have but I'm still not ready to go fight them in the South Pacific where many of their remaining states are. I decide to take those western regions that had always kinda bugged me.
Hey, now the S from Texas is almost back home in Texas, to bad the T,E, and X are all still in Canada (except for the T which is way up in Alaska. After this war the U.S. is still a secondary power and is even able to make it's way up to great power status somehow. I'm not going to focus on them much anymore until I get a navy though since by now they only have 3 states+DC left in North America and the rest are out in Oceania or Hawaii. Instead I am going to work on annexing the CSA. I do have a truce with them but I decide to take the militancy hit and break it. The CSA has very little resistance left and I slowly start to eat away at their regions. I'm able to try and lower the militancy level with reforms but there are only a few more reforms that I can make.
I also need to start gearing up for my next war with Great Britain which should be starting up soon. Until then it's back to building up my army and navy.