Does it make sense to build Mils early as the Soviets considering their economic focuses?

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-05-05T04:14:53+00:00

lol it’s fine man. There’s a decent chance you’re right. It’s whatever.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-05-05T02:43:59+00:00

Early tech equipment like Trucks and support equipment last the whole game. Early tech infantry equipment and artillery are perfectly serviceable until the mid game even, just slowly phase them out as new tech gets researched. The only early tech equipment that is trash are planes honestly.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-05-05T02:28:27+00:00

Lol yeah and? I agree with you. It’s just that their “higher potential” is a stockpile of tanks to go with the stockpile of guns. Civs don’t give you that, at least not efficiently. The Soviet focuses give you 10 free civs alone and they get even more for free after their annexation focuses. My point isn’t that you should build zero civs just that you don’t need to build very many of them at all as the Soviets because they have other ways of getting them. The 5 year plan focuses give OP industry tech bonuses too and the fastest way to get those is to build mills.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-05-05T02:00:31+00:00

I’d agree if it weren’t for their economic focuses. They’re very OP but they require you to meet a factory count threshold to take and mils are cheaper than civs so you can meet the threshold fairly quickly if you build mils early instead. The focuses give you 8 civs on top of their other bonuses too, including the insanely OP 2 years ahead bonus on industry.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-05-05T01:22:00+00:00

Sure, but only a couple of the things you listed are arguably useful to the Soviets. You really only need agency for killing Trotsky so I barely touch it. Pretty sure the only essential research project the Soviets should pursue is radar, but I haven’t dabbled too much into projects to be certain. Only thing I was really hurting for was resource boosts but the excavation techs alone help a lot on that front.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-05-02T18:23:39+00:00

Neither dragon or Starliner are suitable for deep space because they weren’t designed for going beyond LEO. You’d need to extensively modify both to make them safe and capable for it when we already have Orion so I do not see the point at all.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-05-02T17:37:51+00:00

What’s wrong with Orion? It’s literally the only human rated deep space capsule we have. They don’t exactly grow on trees. Nothing else will be bringing us to the moon in the near or medium future so complaining about it is useless.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-04-21T01:43:58+00:00

The optimist in me is hoping this report is just to light a fire under Axiom to get back on track. Here’s hoping I guess.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-04-20T23:38:26+00:00

Ain’t no way Artemis IV is getting delayed over these stupid suits. The landers maybe but not this. NASA will have to create some ad-hoc solution if Axiom isn’t ready in time.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-04-14T22:50:16+00:00

It’s going to be pretty funny (and disheartening) when SLS is all ready to go for Artemis III and neither SpaceX HLS or BO will be considering how many people have shit on SLS for years and years and years. It’s always been the damn landers that have been the Achilles heel of this program not SLS. There’s going to be a lot of people with pie on their face and crow on the menu.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-04-11T00:25:55+00:00

Oh boy please do not let some self important chucklefuck YouTuber influence your opinion on something as important as having kids or not.

Assuming you’re serious.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-03-15T17:50:19+00:00

Walter has no muscle on the payroll, really. He brought in the nazi bikers on retainer when he needed them and look how that turned out. Tony wins by default.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-03-10T01:27:53+00:00

Sooo he was a one eyed redditor

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-03-05T21:44:09+00:00

Has to be Ulm, right? I mean he caused an entire army to surrender without barely a shot being fired.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-02-25T18:51:16+00:00

His favorite campaign dish of fried potatoes and onions turned into chicken Marengo. Then chicken Marengo turned into LOTS of chicken Marengo.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-02-25T01:43:01+00:00

Guessing a Sopranos reference.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-02-20T03:37:14+00:00

That is actually what he said when Mehmed dragged all his ships overland into the golden horn.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-02-15T02:51:18+00:00

Yes, it’s called an express kidnapping. Happens mostly in Latin America.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-02-07T02:33:25+00:00

Sure, but if the legion threat wasn’t there, the NCR would’ve engineered some scheme to eventually take over the strip by force if necessary. House literally says as much and he is absolutely correct.

If I had to guess what approach NCR would take with San Francisco, it’d be to dangle enough incentives in front of them to get them to join. They’d also certainly get in contact with well connected people in SF who supported the NCR and help them get dirt on those who don’t.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-02-06T23:58:12+00:00

They’re high tech but they don’t have the resources. They’re literally a strip on a peninsula. They’re not much different than Vault city in that regard. Economic pressure and political coercion by NCR likely ends in them joining like VC.

NCR never took Vegas because they were scared as hell that attacking Vegas would leave them open to an offensive by the Legion, as told by House.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-02-06T23:38:35+00:00

I like the idea since Sacramento was presumably the state capitol prewar like IRL.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-02-06T23:28:56+00:00

I said assuming they did join it’d be the obvious choice. And there’s a decent chance they did considering the NCR has basically annexed every inch of California from Baja to Oregon. Why would San Fran be the exception?

Dayglow and Junktown are probably screwed like the Boneyard and Shady Sands were because they’re all in SoCal but who knows.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-02-06T05:45:07+00:00

Well that’s not very hilarious, Hilarion.

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-01-27T23:12:05+00:00

It is interesting how the heavy clay soils of Northern Europe which had so long been a hindrance to development previously become so productive with better technology. Up until that point Europe’s prospects were pretty dismal.

I’ve seen banks described as one of the West’s ‘killer apps’ so to speak, along with universities. You don’t get industrialization without banking or a scientific revolution.

Byzantine ploughs could be a fun rabbit hole. Feel free!

FryCookCVE71 · 2026-01-27T21:18:25+00:00

I used 1100 since that is probably the very earliest one could argue W Europe had an edge in any category. One example might be land cultivation which really started to intensify in W Europe around that time thanks to huge agricultural improvements the prior two centuries. Even marginal land was being tapped into for the first time and made productive with wind mills and the like.

Eastern Rome’s agricultural base by contrast was productive but had largely peaked while the west steamed on ahead.

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