USA's MPP's

[jobuz]

I am a newcomer to SC and am really happy someone put together a game like this. It fills a large vacuum, and its fun, not micromanagement. But I have a question. Does anyone else think America'a MPP budget is too small? I think in the game USSR outproduces it by a wide margin, but in real life, the USA was at least on par with the USSR, even after the pacific effort is subtracted, which was smaller than that used to liberate europe. Is there any way to fix this in the Editor, even for my own interest? Thanks. :confused:

[JerseyJohn]

jobuz

Welcome to the sanitorium.

As you can probably see there are a lot of forums to a page and a lot of pages so far, something like 70. The topic has come up fairly often and emerges on a regular basis. So far the consensis is that it assumes the U. S. is also fighting in the Pacific and the key American Armies that fought in Europe are already built and waiting when America enters, which they weren't -- in the actual event they had to be organized, trained, equipped, etc., from what was in 1941 still a very small army.

Presumably it also takes into account all the United States resources that went into building Liberty ships and convoy escorts plus the cost of converting so massive a civilian industrial base into war production.

If you back-track through the past forums you'll see more on this and probably a lot of questions you would have asked will already have been answered. I recently had the odd experience of putting together a legnthy posting in one of the other forums only to remember in the end that I'd writing almost the same item with pretty much the same photos in a much earlier forum!

There really is a lot of good info in many of them and, if not, you'll come across dozens of heated arguments that are great fun to read through.

Additionally, if you come across something ten or twenty pages back that interests you and you make an entry that suddenly becomes the most current forum. A recent example is a multi-page opus about Finland that was dead and buried and so far back it was nearly forgotten. Then it suddenly appeared at the top of list because somebody made a new entry and it went through another round of postings. One of which started something like "Good God, this forum is still around!"

[ December 15, 2002, 11:09 PM: Message edited by: JerseyJohn ]

[SeaWolf_48]

Good point Jobuz.

The US outproducted the rest of the world in tanks, planes, and ships. Maybe the US should have 500 MPP's and have to lend MPP's to Russia via the Manmursk convoy route.