It seems that IC whoring is no loger useful.

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IC whoring ftw.

Yes, I am losing ressources, but if I can still sustain ~900 effective IC, without trading at all.

Btw: Officers are much more an issue for minors than IC. As Canada, you have 300 officers and can train 7 per day MAX. Even if they had IC, they wouldn't even be able to field a minor army (but interesting enough, 40 STRATs would be possible, as well as 20 BBs + CLs...).

 

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Do they? Every Screen shot I have seen has them at 99k or very close on both.

If they are trying to represent this, they should make it harder to trade for them

Thats because the AI is too keen on trading goods away. It was the same scheme in HoI2: Buy ressources, build IC and spend some of the build IC to produce supplies. These supplies are used to get MORE ressorces - and since supplies are worth much more than other ressources, you could easily support your whole IC by foreign trade while devoting 15-20% of it for supply production.

But play a MP game once. You will see that neither SU nor USA will trade that many ressources with the axis, so you lose the two major trading nations. The small ones are usually bought out by UK and FRA early on, so you really have a situation where the axis suffer a serious ressource shortage.