Originally posted by Aetius
What might be a bigger problem:
what will prevent the US invading South America and Mexico and what will prevent the Soviet from attacking the weak states to the south of them? They could just take out China and Persia in 1936... Even a thrid class army would do for that.
We Actually did this in a role playing thread of WWII, and i dont think that the U.S would invade unless Germany tried to sabotage the U.S using agents and Mexicans.....which is what the German Player tried to do in the role playing thread....I know that has no relevance here, but the AI could be programmed to do such things as Covert operations such as this...the German players actions were partly based on history also, of the Germans using Mexico as a base for there agents to try and cross the U.S border and sabotage key industries....and infrastructure.
Also about the U.S invading South America, well certainly these actions could lead to a U.S invasion and the U.S could use that as a pretext to invade.
But what i did was to actually counter by offering the Mexicans farm machinery to grow there cash crops.....and also develop there road and rail links.....then buy the crops in exchange for building the roads and rairoads, thus the U.S being a democratic nation would be more likely to buy off its neighbours rather than go to war with them,though that option should remain with the A.I though.
But more likely the U.S would develop infrastructure to move its military faster to such regions as the Panama canal, and also exploit these nations for there raw materials to feed the U.S war machine.
As for the Soviets.....well i dont know what they would do, since the Chinese are communists it is unlikely that they would invade unless they felt there identity as a communist nation would be threatened by Japanese aggression.... or that the non communist forces were becoming too powerful, but this would lead to hostilities with the U.S and also weaken the Russian front against Germany, while making the Asian front look more secure.
But also the Soviets would be like Germany fighting a two front war so there is the possibility of that option, and also that the U.S might also impose sanctions against Soviet Agression.
Thus the whole war could be changed by that one action of the Soviet Union, and could have infact prolonged the war, that is an option also that could be programmed in.....
So hope those variables discussed helps out.....
As in the WW II role playing i turned the whole of the Southern American region and also Canada into one Giant Breadbasket for the U.S war machine.....and also began to develop industry in these nations also to ease the U.S burden and utilise the workforces of these nations to produce food, while the U.S concentrated on arms, and then also slowly introduced arms production plants into these nations after they were trained in U.S factories, thus the U.S was actually producing more than what it did in WW II using the above methods.....some food for thought there!
Also with the U.S looking after Canada that eased the Burden on Britain considerably as the U.S could arm Canadian troops......
Maybe all these suggestions and variables could be used by the programmers....
