Cruisers are FAR from useless.
I completely defeated China with only cruisers, destroying all of their coastal cities, nuclear reactors, power generation, etc.
Mind you, that did kind of crash the global economy. But swings and roundabouts.
I'm all about the Air Force, soon as i get my money, i build like 20 air bases, use the trainer and put like 1000 planes in each base and city, i went to war with USA, i took out all their nuclear plants and the rest of their power production, leveled cities, military installations, in ONE MASSIVE air raid, had easily like 100 groups of fighters, 1000 in each.
Playing as Venezuela, it's 2018, conquered Cuba, Panama, and a few neighbors in S.America, murdered USA, took out S.Arabia's oil production when i defended Israel, installed a "friendly" gov. in Mexico and in Netherlands (dont ask, lol)
But b\c of the unemployment i cant really conquer anymore nations, unemployment 5%, 45M people, yearly budget 600B, 7 trillion GDP, inflation 0.2, i have VAT and Taxes at 43%, and i cant lower them cuz inflation will start rising again, cant really cut spending cuz i dont wanna compromise on health&safety&education, although i have permanent excess of trillion dollars (doesnt seem to go down no matter how much i waste), maybe cuz im pumping 60 billion barrels of oil a year, LOL.
I figured i might play as my home nation of Finland, then annex a few small oil producing countries half way across the world, might be interesting.
[Edited by kuningasjokipuu, 11/2/2010 4:03:54 PM]
just stay away from Poland when you will be playing as Finland
[Edited by shearerr, 11/3/2010 3:13:26 PM]
Maybe annex czechoslovakia ?