How much attention you pay to your attacks?

[PicassoCT]

And @ Germany had lost when the war began. The debts were simply way to high. To repay them, the Nazis would have to conquer endless country by country - and always win.without break, just to escape a massive economic crisis. When the Frontline stopped in Russia, they sucked all conquered Countrys Empty of anything (food, metalls, Money, Working Power = therefore Total War

ummmmm, the German Economy was in crisis before the NSDAP (Nazis) came into power. The reason why Germany was in crisis was because the entire world was in economic recession after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Also, at the start of the Second World War Hitler dismissed all foreign loans, meaning for the most part Germany was debt free at the start of the war.

Try Wiki for Mefo-Wechsel and you know what i mean. They bought hundreds of things nessecary for war- and otherwise useless. The built streets and no cars for them - and so on. The whole thing was a big snowball system, just with states and war ...
-> German Link http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ger%C3%A4u ... nanzierung

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mefo_bills

[Licho]

So who cares? They built it - they had it and were materially "richer" than before..

Financial debt is meaningless.. You can ignore it if you choose to. Especially if you are dictator and, and don't need to trade much with foreign countries.

Whole financial system is just "virtual" it works only because we accepted it, but if you have power you can ignore it.

[PicassoCT]

you can`t ignore people taking there savings from the bank (what happened 1944 - and having them finding out, that they don`t exist anymore ( if a burned out Tank is material Richer - then they were :) But this is not meaningless - the Years after Black-Friday - when Money became "just Paper" prepared the Betrayal of the "Repulicans" (Zentrum) and Monarchists on the Weimarer Republic. And if you can ignore the whole thing, then why isa little North Korean Dicatator, who ignores it - not worth the Attention of the USA? You need Money to be a Dangerous Dictator ...

Money and Stock Exchange were the Reason for the Rise of British Empire. Don`t underestimate them.. but you are right, saying that Hitler would have his battle anyway.

[SwiftSpear]

Always pay attention to every conflict. Conflict means you have micromanagement work to do. At minimum try verify that the threat won't be able to breach your lines before diverting your attention elsewhere.

[manored]

But if you are attacking, and the enemy is almost attacking you from a point the two attack teams doesnt encounter, he may decide its best to continue the attack and maybe make YOU pull back...

[Relative]

Try Wiki for Mefo-Wechsel and you know what i mean. They bought hundreds of things nessecary for war- and otherwise useless. The built streets and no cars for them - and so on. The whole thing was a big snowball system, just with states and war ...

The building the national highways was part of a very successful regeneration plan that caused massive drops in unemployment of workers. The point was not because of demand for roads, but for a demand of work. It was widely seen as a positive move at the time, and by historians today. You need to stop considering that everything NSDAP (Nazis) did was "evil" and a failure just because of WWII and the holocaust.

[Licho]

Picasso - this is true if you have working international trade. But not during world war, when economies are separated and especially when talking about non-democratic country..

As I said, here, in Czechoslovakia, goverment erased all savings in 1953, it had only small negative effect on real production or international trade. Of course that many people suffered, but again, we are talking about non-democratic regimes.

Well under communism money were to some extent meaningless anyway
- original idea was to scrap money completely.

Since all production was state controlled, state was controlling prices too and those were often not reflecting real demand/production situation. State was also controlling all wages, since all jobs were "state" controlled too.. There were no private companies, no self-employed people (except few artists). State was running whole country and goverment was able to change pricess of everything and income of everyone at will. Under communism workers in coal mines or steel mills had more money than qualified researchers, doctors or lawyers, just because party said so. Basic food was nearly for free, and housing was nearly for free (or completely free) while other stuff was simply unavailiable despite huge demand (like some luxury consumer goods). Only way to get those luxury goods quickly was to know right people. Money were disconnected from real world of supply and demand but real production was still going on.
There was no stock market, no companies no independent banks, no free trade.
Even all trade with abroad was state controlled too and often commodity based (eg. few tons of enriched uranium for reactors from USSR for some machinery, cars or food).

Free market economy is not the only way, it's just the most efficient one :)

[kineticdeath]

Well since i dont really play against humans, just ai's on hard, i build enough units to either demolish the enemy without even having to keep them selected. Or i have such a huge constructive capacity, with new units, specially planes, on patrol covering any theoretical weak point and providing ample defense while i walk my troops through the fight.

I just played a game on OTA where the enemy had maxed out its 500 unit limit with 20+ bertha's and vulcans (and countless other fixed and mobile defense), and i stomped it using a similar maxed force of fighters, gunships, bombers tanks mechs, and i had some ships for coastal bombardment. I never looked at my base during the attack cause i had like +1k metal and 110k energy with all factories spamming "unable to create any more units" lol