Is there any reason why anyone should go peacetime over wartime economy? It seems the only advantages to a peacetime economy are the construction bonuses, more than overmatched by the wartime bonuses.
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IIRC, the peace time tech opens the tree for the "post-war" economic techs. So the Wartime economy is the best for the duration of the war, but after that, it won't evolve more.
Of course, you can have access to the post-war economy techs before the war is over, getting their advantages early. But I always chose wartime too, so....
Of course, you can have access to the post-war economy techs before the war is over, getting their advantages early. But I always chose wartime too, so....
Peacetime gives +15 research speed which helps out a lot in the beginning. Ive got to 200% research speed in 1940 as UK. In the overview tab of the tech screen you can see the research speed.
Hi,
for small countries far away from the second research slot and probably not able to themselves choose the time for their war-entry(like, say, Norway) wartime economy is a necessity.
For others peacetime economy is best in the long run for many reasons.
It would be nice if you could abandon previously chosen techs when the general situation changes markedly, at a price.
Rgds, Oldtimer
for small countries far away from the second research slot and probably not able to themselves choose the time for their war-entry(like, say, Norway) wartime economy is a necessity.
For others peacetime economy is best in the long run for many reasons.
It would be nice if you could abandon previously chosen techs when the general situation changes markedly, at a price.
Rgds, Oldtimer
Using Technoflechas, post war economy only requires High Quality tech. Your choice of wartime or peace time does not affect your ability to use post war economy.
I can not think of any. As any country I can build more or equal IC under Wartime as I can under peace time and I get 35% more supplies for the bargain. Having faster tech means nothing if you can not build any units due to having no IC (England) or supplies (USSR). Only the US seems unaffected but that is in large part due to the gigantic IC you can accumulate before war so the low supply production is not as noticeable. For both USSR and Germany having higher supply production is well worth it. As USSR, if you keep your army, you will be hard pressed to supply it and build any additional IC, with peace time Industry, leaving you without much of an army to face Germany.
I also find no reason to ever choose Liberal Economy or Military Economy, as Marxist Economy offers more industry tech and peacetime boost then either of the other two, and even as a democracy you move back to Free Market without much problem.
I tend to have less issues with actually building the units than scraping up the manpower to form them. My game is somewhat modded from the base version so your mileage may differ, but I am thinking that the manpower increase rates are very small compared to what I am used to for AoD (then again it could be similar to what HoI2 players remember or see).
To be honest I chose the peacetime economy to keep the dissent down. But having the post-war economy tech is very helpful. Especially since you can't deactivate the wartime economy.
Hi all,
marxist economy and free market should be mutually exclusive, democracy or not.
Rgds, Oldtimer
marxist economy and free market should be mutually exclusive, democracy or not.
Rgds, Oldtimer
i dont agree. several democracys had more or less marxist economy like chile during th presidency of allende or the communist/socialist french goverment in the early 80s) and there are even more autocracys that have free market policys.
They are with the slider (Free Market <-> Central Planning)
The reference we made was to a technology that moves that slider closer to Central Planning as you attempt to change the countries ideology in a more Marxist direction. This tech also provides industrial and peace time economic benefits, which Liberal Economy does not, or to a lesser degree, so why research it? For what it is worth, Liberal Economy, Military Economy, and Marxist Economy are mutually exclusive in the technology tree.
I always choose peacetime over wartime playing Germany from 33.
The buildup till "Danzig or War" (that I use for starting the war as a house rule) is not restricted by the production capacity but by manpower, so the production malusses have no effect on the military power at start of the war.
But the 15% research bonus that peacetime economy gives is huge.
I do the opposite with Armageddon as Germany and never have a manpower problem and I like all the extra IC to build more IC and you also produce more resources. I do not find the 15% research to be that much of a bonus as you have such good tech teams. Have not tried this with 1.01 on AOD (1.04) yet so if that is what you are using them maybe that is where the manpower issue comes in.
I am using 1.01 on AOD 1.05.
I can build a sizeable and sufficent army, but in 39 I put all excess MP into units and can only build planes and ships without running out of MP. As IC cost quite a lot MP (5MP per IC IIRC) building (a lot) is also not an option.
The 15% research bonus are not essential, but IMHO better than having even more planes / ships.
You never find you end up putting lots of IC in to supply production as a result of the 10% reduction from Peace-time industry?
The IC draw of supplies is noticeable higher with Peacetime Economy, as I have no idea what to do with all those ICs except building stockpiles of supplies and money after the buildup of the armed forces is completed I see no problem there.