Australia and ahead of time bonuses seem pretty useless

[Frozen Yakman]

In Australia's focus tree there a bunch of ahead of time bonuses for a bunch of naval tech (and recon and a plane IIRC). Since AOTB are only consumed if you actually research ahead of time, this seems comically optimistic that Australia would have the spare research slot to dedicate to these things. Maybe these should be changed?

 

[sr999]

Concur - maybe post this in Suggestions? (if it's not already, found this post on a search!)

 

[Dalnar]

I wouldn't call these bonuses useless. It's mainly for those who want to focus on something early. Like early production of destroyer III or going for light cruiser III asap. Yes, there is lost opportunity cost, but it's nice option. But yes, most people would pick other foci (industrial) before the techs, but that's choice as well.

Like Canada has option to produce light tank III before ww2 starts, so you can have few light armor/motorized divisions ready to help out in North africa for example.

I think the worst about TFV trees is actually that the research slots are gated behind independence, which in case of Australia is two slots which is imho stupid.