Less fun playing small nations ?

[bwyb00]

In the current setup NL is one of the Major Minors..

They even surprised me as an AI. I was playing germany and the conquest of france was not going as fast as expected. The Dutch used this opportunity to make somes kind of a D-Day in their home land around march 40. They landed in three waves with about 30 infantry units and somes tanks! Unfortunately for them i soon crushed the pocket of french/belgian resistance around Dunkerke and easely send those Dutchs back to the ocean, but not before they took back all their country and five of my germans provinces. I must say i was leaving all this provinces unprotected, knowing the cowardly of the english... Maybe with a better coordinations of all allied forces and better dutch infantry i could have had a true problem there.

 

[unmerged(3856)]

There are some issues with the IC/Research balance when playing a middle ranked power. The same might also be true for a minor. Don't know since I haven't played any except Holland.

The issue is this.

Suppose I am playing Canada. I expand my industry and given a few years I can put a well balanced force into play consisting of a naval task force, an army with tanks as well as a tactical air force.

Problem is that I simply cannot research the doctrines needed to make all this effective. I have to drop one or other of the branches.

So if I decide to not research air doctrines then there is no point in building an air force at all. This, however, quickly leads to the situation where I have ICs to burn. Simply run out of things to build. (Due to manpower/TC constaints.)

Anyone else had this problem?

 

[Malch]

For Canada I've been working on a mod that allows a severe cut to available IC, but a large bonus to actual IC. This gives Canada more techteam slots, better representing thier tech level, but also limiting their IC, so that they still maintain a military force of around historic proportions.

 

[unmerged(35567)]

Actually I had a fun game as Sweeden once.

Modded an event that gave me cores on all of Scandinavia. Got Denmark and Norway peacefully (demand territory) fought with Finland (right on sept 1 as MR pact accured). Then i had about 60 IC(base) maybe more. My army was 20 mtn divisions (in 42 i added 20 more and built 40 rocket artilleries). Waited to 41 on the day Germany attacked I followed suit. Not in an allience I took all of northern Russia (Mostly by a surprising blitz into Moscow helped it) Germans took South to Stalingrad. then i closed Germans off. In the beggining of 43 I annexed all of USSR.

Hows that for Sweeden

PS Mountain divisions are better for scandinavian countries + I can attack in Siberian Winter.

 

[unmerged(3921)]

I think the game is MORE fun as a non-major. I give credit to Paradox for making a game that more realistically portrays the limitations faced by small countries and yet makes many of them still interesting to game with. I will note that the smaller countries in Europe are a better play bet than the small ones in Asia where the game balance is still sporked.