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>there is no reason to make mot
Token 3 '35 Mot divisions is the best spearhead you will ever get in this game, fucking both AI and human players sideways. That's because DH's Mot has speed of 28. Only post-war Air Cav has higher speed.
>or mech
Agreed. Mech is consistently a noob trap in HoI ever since the original game. For that IC/factories (not to mention research) you could get fuckload of actual useful units and years earlier, rather than lapring halftrucks
>the only vessel you should ever make is cv
BlueEmu half-jokingly proven (potentially before you were born) that submarines are very fucking viable. It works in 2, DH and 3 on the very similar principle (however, you can't easily starve colonial armies like it works in 2/HD). There was even a period of 4 where even there it was viable, but of course idiots stacked it until PDX nerfed the shit out of it
3 has a window where early war (not pre-war, early war) CA are perfectly viable, allowing to cheaply destroy enemy fleets that are outside bombing range. Details depends on who you are facing, but 40-early 43 is CA hunting grounds