>Heard this game has a long time period, 1914-2030+
>Fuck yeah, sounds rad
>Wtf is this shit?
I need some help amons. I want to play as Australia and conquer South East Asia and the Pacific.
First act, annex Australian Papua. No problem.
Second act, build more agriculture, timber, coal.
Third act, declare war on New Zealand.
Ship troops over, get fucked by a nation with no natural mammals.
How? I pulled up all my reserve troops and sent them. All that happens is troops stand around while explosions happen. Eventually all my troops die. I cannot make any sense of this game.
>I'll read a tutorial
No, fuck you. All I find is a 16 hour youtube series where the guy presents information in whatever schizo way it enters his brain.

How the fuck do you play this game, specifically manage military affairs?

>>2092519 (OP)
You need to research Consumer's Goods up to tier VI.
>but I just want more war stuff
It unlock earplugs under the hood, which are necessary to negate the ridiculous offensive damage bonus Maori get from doing the Haka. The game is full of one-of stuff like this.
Those explosions aren't ordinances, it's just the effect from non-blocked Haka because the game doesn't have that many effects to use.

>>2092567
Come on, Anon. don't spoonfeed him. Half the fun is figuring out this stuff.

AI doesnt build factories
Or if they did they dont ever build new factory hub thingies on a new hex
So eventually you will scale beyond everyone in the game so long as you have enough real estate to build on

>>2092567
>>2092573
Holy autismo.

>>2092567
>>2092573
Well fuck you guys, I managed to Annex new Zealand. I'm still not sure about this game, there seems to be a lot of "you lost the election" kind of bullshit

>>2094340
It's not a great game, the devs, if you can call them that, just release the same thing over and over, with no actual improvement. Concept is neat, but it lacks a lot of stuff. What you're running into is likely garrisons, they are pretty strong if you're not careful. You'll likely want to license build something like the boxer afv or marder 2, something with good stats that's mobile while still counting as infantry. Then slam out as many planes as possible, fighter bombers like the f16. After that, it's pretty easy, throw all your infantry into 7 stacks, attack from two hexs, swarm your planes overtop and you'll melt the garrisons, though a place like new York will always take time.

>>2092519 (OP)
This game is so fucking retarded and obtuse. I just wish I could have something like Shadow President with a country selector and some scenario customization. But all political games like this just end up having the most obtuse, counter intuitive and clunky gameplay and UI on the planet.

>>2092573
>Just blunder about through the worst designed menus and systems ever for 10 hours
God no.

>>2095247
modern age political sims or grand strategy games are such a nonexisting genre that it's mindblowing, considering how politicized our times are

>>2102219
>considering how politicized our times are
Kinda normal: current politics, both internal and external are fucking gay and retarded.
Put it written slightly objectively in a vidya and people will call your writing retarded and your premise too stupid for suspension of disbelief.

>>2092519 (OP)
Games like this are just so needlessly complicated to the point that they are not fun.

>>2102387
This game isn't really complicated.
It is, however, horrendously designed.