I do hope you are right... Well i realised, early in 1940, that oil was going to be an issue and that i had to be smart with it. I then decided that the most important spot on the map was America, so nothing was spared for that front, at the expenses of the other 2. I also got the Turner oilfields in Canada and the Gulf oil of the us, this did help a little bit. But it is hard to believe that i was able to keep my oil gage where it is, since when i got into this, i had never done this kind of operating that early. I am pleased with the way it is unfolding. But Clark, at one point i really thought i was overreaching myself, but all things considered i put just enough energy on every fronts to be effective. As i said at the beginning of my AAR, luck favors the bold!Clark wrote:I thought that earlier on that you had overreached, that there was a good chance that you could be defeated due to a lack of oil and pushback on all fronts. But you shepherded your oil reserves very well, and I think there's a good chance that you will conquer Russia. Washington can't last much longer, then you'll spend a little bit of PPs repairing those forces and shipping them back to Europe. Russia will no longer get convoys, so your PP advantage will be huge. And once you gain Middle Eastern oil, you'll be able to open up bigger offensives that he simply won't be able to stop.
But another key to oil success is industrial technology, it increases the oil you produces as well as the pp you produce. So i always invest heavily and as early as possible. The general field with focus on industry are the first point i put into research, thus explaining my lagging behind with air, since its one of the last place i invest heavily into...
Once i get this damned Middle Eastern oil, i will re-focus on Russia, maybee mid-end 1943? I will outline my offensive plan to break the deadlock in a few posts, once i finalize my evaluation of when i will be able to finish production on the stuff i need for the kind of operation i am thinking of doing.
