Originally posted by
[email protected] 20, 2007 04:04 am
its too difficult. My first year was fine, but I tried to collective too fast and now the peasants can't make enough food for themselves.
Go with voluntary collectivization till you build up your agriculture, to build up your agriculture you need to build (and fuel) tractors and ensure you have goods to motivate farmers (weird that in this simulation the farmers need goods while industrial workers for the most part seem happy with just being fed). You will have a few hundred thousand peasants dead if you rush to build up agriculture.
My problem is building up the military large enough by WWII, in fact I run into problems with the military dragging the economy down late in the game with it harder to keep up with the fuel demands of a large army after farmers take a huge chunk of fuel production for tractors (the people gotta eat) and less and less surplus fuel I can export to import goods so I can free up the production to expand production (then there is the issue of arms taking up production).