Do you guys build army bases in all your cities?

saelioooo · Apr 25th 2023, 11:46pm

Title. I've been thinking about this as in my opinion, building nine army bases in a country like the USA doesn't seem to make sense to me. I feel like making 5 or 6 would be much better. Based on how many units you expect to have late-game, what do you guys do?

KFGauss · Apr 26th 2023, 2:32am

Run a Google search or two that is constrained to this Forum site and you'll find lots of feedback on this topic.

Dealer of Death · Apr 26th 2023, 3:09am

No, never.

Zozo001 · Apr 26th 2023, 6:00am

saelioooo wrote:

building nine army bases in a country like the USA doesn't seem to make sense to me

Indeed it does not. As KFG noted, this topic has been discussed a lot already.

OFC the first question is what (i.e. the type rather than the count of units) one wants to mobilize. Cranking out melee units is a poor strategy, in general. So one can argue that building even a single army base is wasteful.

Tifo_14 · Apr 26th 2023, 6:08am

1 or 2 are usually good, maybe 3 if you’re playing a superpower. But as @Zozo001 already said, unless your producing 100% infantry units, building an army base in every city is a waste.

Mc_Johnsen · Apr 26th 2023, 11:53am

Sometimes I build none cuz I don't build infantries, not even national guard. When I do build army base, 4-5 and spam 2 rounds of CRV

Zozo001 · Apr 26th 2023, 12:31pm

Mc_Johnsen wrote:

spam 2 rounds of CRV

You mean like 2 days worth of mobilization, total? Sounds like a big waste of those 4-5 buildings.

KFGauss · Apr 26th 2023, 4:03pm

The benefits and disadvatages of mobilizing CRVs (including constructing the necessary buildings) have also been discussed thoroughly in more than one existing thread.

Reading those threads will introduce you to many authors' opinions that you won't get otherwise.

Mc_Johnsen · Apr 26th 2023, 4:19pm

Zozo001 wrote:

Mc_Johnsen wrote:

spam 2 rounds of CRV

You mean like 2 days worth of mobilization, total? Sounds like a big waste of those 4-5 buildings.

Its not a waste. These buildings are cheap and constructed swiftly. Getting a lot of CRVs fast and early is good to have the upper hand in a very early war. Over time those army bases will be used to produce other ground units

Zozo001 · May 13th 2023, 8:47am

loridietz wrote:

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Tifo_14 · May 16th 2023, 2:48am

So Mr. Johnsen, how do you plan on building new infantry units once your starting ones get destroyed?

Mc_Johnsen · May 16th 2023, 12:01pm

You start with ~11 Infantries I think. Just don't lose too many infantries and you are good to go

Important aspect of it is to not have your infantries involve in combat, other units are better combat units. Infantries sole purpose is conquering, not fighting (and maybe rebellion suppression).

scott steiner · May 22nd 2023, 6:07pm

I would recommend building in every city. Army bases build morale and therefor production level goes up

KFGauss · May 22nd 2023, 6:38pm

scott steiner wrote:

I would recommend building in every city. Army bases build morale and therefor production level goes up

Would you please point me to where you saw that Army Bases build Morale? It's not in the building Construction information you are shown when using the browser user-interface.

My Good Side · May 22nd 2023, 8:03pm

Don’t listen to tat guy.

Admira G1 · May 23rd 2023, 7:33pm

Everything is situational.
sometimes it makes sense to build army base in all cities on day 1. It depends on who is around you, what country you are, what country you’re allied with, what country/player you’re trying to target and what units/buildings they are going with at the time.

USA having army base in all of its cities sometimes makes sense. If you’re trying to rush 2 players, Canada and Mexico at once then I might build army base in all cities if I were going with infantry.

If you treat the game as cycles of events then you will realize what is a good investment for one cycle might be useless for the next cycle. You can’t judge something in a vacuum, taken out of the context of the/a specific game and what is happening on the ground

Mother Hen · May 23rd 2023, 8:19pm

KFGauss wrote:

scott steiner wrote:

I would recommend building in every city. Army bases build morale and therefor production level goes up

Would you please point me to where you saw that Army Bases build Morale? It's not in the building Construction information you are shown when using the browser user-interface.

I always build them in every city because they are so cheap.

Tzztzttztz · Jun 11th 2023, 8:53pm

Just for starter CRV spam (until day 4).
I don't research infantry until the day 20 anyway. 10-12 infantry units is enough to take a country, just create stacks with one-two infantry troops, and use CRV for defense against Rogue state. CRVs are stronger in attacks (4.5 v 3 lvl1) and cheaper in manpower.
They are also better (at lvl 1) than National guard lvl 3 (both 4.5 defence in cities, but stronger attack). Because that, CRVs are the only unit from categories infantry and armored, which you really need.

PresidentKayneW · Jun 17th 2023, 6:08am

Tifo_14 wrote:

So Mr. Johnsen, how do you plan on building new infantry units once your starting ones get destroyed?

You dont; needing to replace the starting infantry is for rookies. Just carpet bomb your opponents with an airforce until you get nukes. Problem solved.

rwt · Jun 17th 2023, 7:01pm

kaynew wrote:

You dont; needing to replace the starting infantry is for rookies.

okay, I agree....

kaynew wrote:

Just carpet bomb your opponents with an airforce

okay, good enough for 99% of brainless pub games...

kaynew wrote:

until you get nukes

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