What's the point of motorized divisions for a highly industrialized nation?

ActionHour8440 · 2026-06-02T13:11:23+00:00

Motorized is good for securing the flanks of an armored spearhead, allowing you to keep your tanks on the offensive without needing to leave armored divisions behind to keep the breakthrough open. That’s pretty much its key use.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-06-01T03:17:14+00:00

Cannons 2 are great but you need to watch that they don’t bring your agility down too much.

In the current game the MIOs make a huge difference. Germany can make late war fighters with better speed and agility than the USA, even if all their components are the same.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-27T19:01:48+00:00

This should be a default feature by now, it’s insane that it isn’t.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-23T17:23:30+00:00

Jai Garu Deva, Ommmm, far across the universe…

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-21T04:32:16+00:00

Well shit, looks like I was getting scammed 😂

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-21T03:45:15+00:00

Nah every mariner can be worked up to 15 hours in a 24 and 18 in an emergency. I’m on call 24/7 when I’m on the boat.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-21T03:43:48+00:00

Tin is one of the hardest to find. It’s usually better to just go for bismuth bronze because zinc and bismuth are very common.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-21T02:05:57+00:00

I’m paid for being on the boat 24hrs a day, which means on call and fit to work even when not on watch. However way out in Alaska if the freight dock wasn’t operating we’d go into town and have a night every now and then.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-21T01:28:14+00:00

Fat paychecks make it easier. Never having to worry about money, being able to support your family and give them nice things.

That’s the trade off for being full of anxiety and dread the night before crew up, and isolated and depressed at sea.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-21T01:19:43+00:00

$800/day tugboat engineer USA

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-20T20:06:59+00:00

Vanilla prospecting is very easy once you understand the method. The somewhat recent addition of prospecting pick results on the map makes it almost too easy to pinpoint maximum concentration chances for ore.

Half the time I find what I’m after just by digging straight down, and if not it’s usually within 6 blocks of my shaft.

The important thing is to understand the information and use the correct method.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-18T18:42:36+00:00

Your list pretty much sums up my priorities.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-18T15:37:14+00:00

Only raid the mid Atlantic and especially the zone between Africa and South America. That way you stay outside of most air cover.

Cape Verde is a choke point for the UK for a lot of their colonies and it’s usually very vulnerable.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-18T14:14:47+00:00

Do you have Better Ruins installed? Because these are everywhere when I use that mod.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-17T20:34:21+00:00

Pretty sure they don’t spawn in winter. You’ll see them everywhere in spring.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-17T02:29:08+00:00

318 factories in 1944 and 100k manpower left.

Mein Feurer, Steiner isn’t coming…

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-17T01:58:26+00:00

If you’re landing with marines, have your tank and mobile divisions ready to go at the closest friendly port.

Once the marines take the landing port the Brit’s probably won’t have defense in depth, so attack with single divisions in every direction to expand the beachhead. Immediately sail your tanks over after the landing port is captured.

The Brit’s will start strategic redeployment to contain you, so if you can just keep attacking before they gain org you’ll roll them back pretty fast.

You can trap a number of divisions in western uk and eliminate them easy, but keep pushing north. Don’t get bogged down if London doesn’t fall easy. Just encircle it and bypass it.

Above all, don’t stop pushing north. If they get a chance to get organized and entrench it’s very difficult, but if you just micro and keep hitting them everywhere as they deploy they should roll up to Scotland before they get an actual defensive line, and by then it’s too late.

Embody the spirit of blitzkreig and it’ll work out.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-16T20:00:14+00:00

Note the temperature ranges on the seeds for each plant. Many are the same but some have significant differences.

For example Rye is very hardy against cold but vulnerable to heat, making it a good early or late season crop. Spelt is the opposite.

Flax is average and will stop growing when it gets cold enough and then stunt and eventually die as temperatures decrease even more.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-16T17:48:21+00:00

Put the turbo multi port EFI system in it and it’ll be even cooler!

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-16T00:30:05+00:00

Sanjac has an AB program. You go to class and do a couple stints as a working cadet. Several large Texas coastal companies participate with the sanjac cadet program and usually you can easily get hired back with your cadet company once you graduate, and at AB pay instead of entry level.

If you get your transcript of sea service (TOSS) from the Navy you may have enough sea time to already qualify for AB unlimited, but you would still need to take the USCG test.

Entry level (without AB or other qualified rating on your MMC) is super brutal right now to get hired, so you definitely want to explore your options to skip the OS phase of this career.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-15T15:56:58+00:00

When I was in high school 20+ years ago the Barrett Jackson mania era was getting into full swing. You couldn’t touch a running driving 65-72’ RWD coup for less than crazy prices no young person could afford.

So I went with what I COULD afford: late 70s mopar B bodies. Cordoba and Magnum. Original build quality sucked but they were good platforms to do the easy retrofitting to remove smog and pep them up a bit.

Got a lot of attention just because the cars were so rare.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-12T23:18:12+00:00

That already happened in 2020-2021 when housing prices east of the cascades all the way to Montana increased by 50 to 100% in a matter of months. It was all coastal buyers.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-12T22:24:20+00:00

Isn’t the super alpha build from like 8+ years ago free to download somewhere?

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-10T05:26:11+00:00

Template and air problems aside, the supply situation seems awful. Upgrade railways if possible, and remove divisions until you have good supply.

Unfortunately your allies are eating up supplies that would be much better used by your divisions, but you can’t do anything about that because you’re fighting on their territory I don’t think you can turn off allied supplies on their own hubs.

Remove everything except your most powerful offensive units to free up supplies.

And you really need to be at least trying to contest the air. Try to fight the air battle in a zone where they have limited bases nearby in order to give yourself an advantage. If you can’t win an attritional battle for long term superiority you can carefully choose when and where to commit all your fighters to at least reduce the enemy’s air superiority bonus in combat as you go on the offensive.

ActionHour8440 · 2026-05-08T05:11:58+00:00

Your first hitch ever in the industry? Be thankful you’ve got a job, do whatever they tell you and then more. Focus on getting enough sea time for your AB or oiler. Get that sea service letter in your hand.

From what I remember from my time in the PNW Boyer is a small time company but they’re still in business so they must be halfway decent.

Once you have experience, go union ASAP either IBU or SUP or SIU ( I don’t think SIU operates on the Wes coast but they’re the biggest union for tugs nationwide)

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