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[King]

Why Ottomans cannot into Industrialization?

The Ottomans are a tough nut to crack. I found building up basic industry first was the way to go. Factories like Cement and Fabric may not be huge earners and thus do not contribute big points to your industrial score, they were solid earners that allowed you to build up Capitalists for the mid game. The State Capitalists reactionary nutters the Ottomans start with are perfect for this plan.

 

[King]

So it's not a hard coded mission impossible then. If we can get capitalists by mid game, there's a chance for a breakthrough I take it. Thank you.

If you borrow a load of money at the start and gamble on high end factories you have the chance of doing even better. I myself favour the basic factories first approach.

 

[King]

I can see how state capitalists states would borrow a lot of money, but do Laizze Faire states go into debt as well? There doesn't seem to be much more than Ports for them to spend state funds on. I suppose a war could result in debt as well.

Interesting that state capitalism can be as good as or even better than using your national focus to make more cappies and hoping for the best. I assume your NF would be used to recruit craftsmen and later clerks?

I find when playing Laizze Faire, I use debt to finaince wars. Armies consume more goods when I am at war so I need more money. Debt is an easy way to do that, then I pay off the debt and prepaire for my next war.

State Capitalism is not neccessary as good, you need to borrow the money, service the interest and then you have less finaincal resources for things like wars.