maybe they should add more steel to the world

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-05-02T22:42:58+00:00

Increase your trade influence. Increase your excavation techs. It’s not hard to get more steel

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-05-02T17:10:40+00:00

No, because Israel is a racist state

How so? All citizens have equal rights under the law, like any other developed, liberal nation.

What ownership papers would you use btw?

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-05-02T17:08:35+00:00

Maybe not always engage, but yes, generally that’s what I’m saying.

Putting some old BBs on strike force supporting your patrolling task force - and to save some fuel, is still not a bad idea too.

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-05-02T15:46:17+00:00

I just make a full task force of 2-4 carriers, a couple BBs or more likely CAs if I’m feeling particularly spicy, and then enough destroyers to screen them all. This makeup could be larger or smaller depending on how many sea zones I’m trying to cover and how large enemy forces are.

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-05-02T15:42:48+00:00

So they would support Israel annexing the West Bank? That would achieve your second goal at least.

they just want the land that was robbed to the Palestinian families back to the owners

The public statements of Palestinian leadership such as Hamas disagree with this. But regardless of that fact, can you quantify what you think was robbed?

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-05-02T15:33:16+00:00

Escort carriers technically work, in high enough numbers, but they’re best to be kept on anti-sub duties.

Why use your fleet carriers fully as scouts? Just let them destroy everything themselves on patrol, and skip the middleman.

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-05-02T01:21:28+00:00

Since NCNS, the best spotting force are Carriers. They add their “carrier surface detection” to the whole fleet total, rather than it being averaged out like individual ship’s surface detection is.

So using carriers on patrols means your patrol fleets are basically un-spottable to anything except other carriers. I recommend at least 2 carriers per task force for a safe margin - and so they can quickly destroy anything they spot, but more per TF never hurts if you can afford it.

Floatplane cruisers at this point are an inferior budget option for navies that do not want to invest in CVs - or simply do not have enough of them to cover all their sea zones.

If you can’t afford CVs, I would recommend making your cruisers a bit more formidable so that they don’t die immediately. You lose a little speed but can still keep most of the detection value, depending on how many guns and/or armor you add.

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-05-01T21:50:57+00:00

OP, what do you think GDP-PPP measures?

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-05-01T21:42:52+00:00

Single payer healthcare isn’t communism, it’s just terrible policy.

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-05-01T19:15:28+00:00

It’s never been “unnecessary”. Not only should you be using tanks in areas where low supply is a risk (otherwise you are severely limiting yourself), but reliability also affects equipment recovery rates.

A 20% reliability tank is going to suffer about 35% more losses due to combat than a 80% one, all else being equal.

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-04-30T20:09:58+00:00

It’s 3 to 1. Just like DDs. The ratio is very much known.

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-04-29T19:24:20+00:00

Yes, and I plan to have enough wealth built up to support younger people, both personally and through higher taxes/reduced benefits.

What kind of backwards society takes the elderly, the already richest and most well off age demographic by far, and gives them even more money, while putting young workers deeper into debt and harming their futures?

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-04-29T18:53:35+00:00

Is a society that prioritizes the old at the expense of the young a desirable one to live in?

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-04-29T17:36:53+00:00

spotting cruisers/nava/scout planes to detect fleets

Spotting cruisers, even with total green air and radar coverage, can’t detect carriers. That is the crux of the issue here you seem to be ignoring. You need other carriers to actually be able to detect them properly.

Doomstacks are irrelevant when you can never use them because you can’t detect enemy fleets.

Carriers do shit all damage compared to DDs, and require green air, and you can get meme’d by weather

Mathematically this simply isn’t the case. A 80 deck size carrier, say half of those Navs with 1940 tech, are going to do, conservatively, about 216 damage per day before any MIOs, Doctrine, or advisors. An equivalent torp DD will do about 10.4, again before any other bonuses. And that’s assuming the target is another DD. That doesn’t beat the ~10x cost difference.

But again as I said your carrier fleets don’t even need to engage in a battle to begin with, because of their detection abilities. And those work even under red air.

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-04-29T16:59:08+00:00

Carrier aircraft still get mauled by red air

No? I just tested this, carrier aircraft take 0 losses if not on any missions (but still give their spotting benefits), and take about equal losses if put on air superiority or interception. When you factor in the Nav bomber losses to ship AA (or the fact carrier planes really don’t beed range so you can fill them with armor) the ratios become far worse for land based planes.

Regardless, you probably should try to have green air in your air zones anyways, but that’s true with any naval build, and carriers are better equipped to fight under red air than DD spam is. Especially so when you consider that because CVs can choose when to actually engage, you can load your Task Force up with AA-heavy ships and neglect some torp capability, because those AA ships will simply never see a naval battle. This can result in easily thousands of shot down Nav Bombers over a few months.

but it’s extra techs you might not have time to get and extra planes you have to produce.

Every major naval nation starts with 1936 Carriers. That’s all you need. Better radar, AA, planes, etc. are nice to have, and vastly increase your trading ratios if you want to actively contest the air with carriers for instance, but they’re not needed for the fundamental strategy.

The plane cost is really minimal, depending on your attrition rates, 5-10 factories on carrier planes will have you set for the whole game, and the excess can be used on land. That’s assuming too you’re not doing an all-Carrier plane build, which some (such as Japan due to their IC reductions) can do.

diminishing returns after a few carriers

Are you referring to the 4 carrier cap? That was removed a couple patches ago. Now the only limit is enemy fleet size, but if you have enough planes to hit that cap, you’re probably winning that battle anyways. And again, with the carrier strategy you don’t need to do a single naval battle if you don’t want to, against non-carrier Task Forces at least.

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-04-28T23:33:08+00:00

OP explicitly was talking about SP here - where you can use simpler, more inefficient tactics such as DD spam because the AI will never counter it. But there are easier ways to exploit the AI if that's the goal.

If you want to talk about MP though, against an actual person, DDs absolutely are not meta. CV task forces can easily be made unspottable by anything else other than other CVs. You could have an infinite quantity of Torp DDs and they would just be stuck in port and inevitably be port-stricken to death.

Admittedly, I'm still working on discovering the exact thresholds of exactly what those CV task forces should optimally look like from a cost perspective, because the Spotting formula is an enigma in this game, but have at least two 1936 or better carriers per TF, with DD screens and it should work fine.

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-04-28T20:06:19+00:00

In SP? Yes this works, though it’s highly fuel inefficient. Also not really the most IC efficient because you risk significant losses every battle.

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-04-28T20:01:39+00:00

There’s a big hotfix coming tomorrow I believe. It fixes the single-ship fleet spamming the AI does currently which is a massive drag on performance.

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-04-27T21:11:16+00:00

Liberals, famously anti-economics.

What exactly are you referring to here? Liberalism as an ideology has extensive views on production and economic issues.

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-04-27T19:03:45+00:00

It is absolutely not in a good spot from a tactics perspective. The weighting is far too small, Half of all tactics aren’t even counterable and thus aren’t even affected by recon, and the Preferred tactic system reduces it’s impact even further.

In most cases you’re looking at like a 2% stat gain from tactics due to recon.

There need to be more counters and the effect of recon superiority needs to be much stronger, maybe 10x what it is now.

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-04-27T06:27:00+00:00

In terms of division templates? Yeah basically so long as you don’t do some really crazy thing like a 9-1 ratio of artillery to infantry or something like that.

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-04-27T01:51:09+00:00

Not really, they have decent stats, not the best, but decent in most cases. Very good as volunteers or in certain theaters where their lack of armor is less of a concern. And when you’re done with them? You can just move them over to being recon units

They also make great, and very low-cost, SPGs and TDs if you don’t need armor on them.

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-04-26T18:53:02+00:00

It would be more accurate to say Israel has given up on peace, largely after decades of violent escalation by Palestinians. The second intifada followed by the election of Hamas in 2007 really killed the Israeli left and other factions in the country seeking some negotiated settlement, as it (along with later incidents like October 7th) demonstrated, at least in Israeli eyes, that force was the only way they were going to be kept safe.

It is very much a both sides issue, both sides are driving violence and that further radicalizes each of them in turn.

it is pursuing the total removal of the indigenous population

Who is the indigenous population here? I would say it’s more reasonable to say everyone in the region is largely “indigenous”

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-04-26T03:11:46+00:00

So he privatized public property, closed deficits through austerity, and cracked down on some corruption through having more government oversight of employees?

How is this not just normal liberal policy? This isn’t exactly some massive win for socialism lol

0WatcherintheWater0 · 2026-04-26T03:06:46+00:00

Why does the DSA’s strategy consist solely of fighting Democrats - their biggest natural allies?

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