Haïti playthrough

Go for it, you can do it Roko!

Sack Bogota! Storm the continent!

Ecuador is defeated... there's some pockets to clean up, but Quito already fell and he lost his key forces, about 10 mot.inf and all the strats.

I'm struggling to make some modern weapons though. Oil and manpower are the main problems. It takes over 5 hours (yes - fast time, so really like 20 in a slow game) of oil production to start a single tac, for example. RC's in my three core provinces are in place, but I still have only 767 hourly manpower; that's something like ordering a unit every two hours.

My militia army has taken hefty casualties, and I had to take an AA diversion against the strats, so all I really have for fresh troops is three armored cars (heading for L4 - but still), two battleships, and a few militia... hardly enough to go after a next target. This will take a while.

Why are there two dots over the I in Haiti?

Heh, it is the spelling of my native language, sorry.

German?

pfu. Nah.

Dutch?

I HAVE YOU NOW, ROKO! I HAVE YOU NOW!

The Shooting Dutchman.

This is a bit of a long shot, but I'm going to ignore Nicaragua (armed to the teeth, my scouts tell me) and send my hap-snap army to Mexico. He never moved an inch, and maybe this is the kind of thing my army can do right now. Hey ho!

Talvisota wrote:

Dutch?

I HAVE YOU NOW, ROKO! I HAVE YOU NOW!

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I AM UNSTOPPABLE NOW!

Mexican attack is underway, the countryside goes easy but there's some problems here and there taking out cities:

There's also a supply drop in a province revolted to Peru, and since these are a MAJOR source of income for a small country like ours, I feel compelled to attack him now with a grand army of five units available:

Peru attack is underway, with a mix bag of militia supported by one artillery and one rocket artillery, plus the mighty Haitian battle fleet (a third BB was built and is underway). This will be slow, the only way to destroy their army is from range.

But... ahem, notice that little grey area in the East? It is German lands now... for reference, this is who Germany is these days:

So that's not really the kind of news I like to hear over breakfast.

Mexico has officially gone inactive, which means the AI took over. The first thing they did is rush some units out of their capital to take back one of his mountain provinces. We will let them, but we are reliant on artillery here as well and it isn't very numeerous, so taking him out completely will also take time.

The Haïtian Empire in its regional habitat:

I'm really looking forward to invading the US, but I'll hold my horses a bit longer.

Haitian Empire versus the Reich......

My own Reich controlled all of Europe by now.. Roko will crush them.

I have one big advantage over him... the player is called Adolf H. So basically all I have to do is send in a support ticket, and he will be gone as soon as some GO opens it...

Not much happening, Daddy Doc needs his rest sometimes. Peru was shared with Bolivia, Mexico is done, Brazil is next on the menu for some shock treatment but that is still a bit down the line.

The units you see inside Brazil territory are militia btw, he can't see that I'm in position already.

Quick question: what’s the best way to balance and grow manpower as a minor? I know milita and ranged units are where it is at, but what is the trick to manage it enough to actually get a good number of units? Should I put 90% focus into RCs everywhere?