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Originally posted by Lupusman:
Having a ally that can't fight worth crap is also a downer. One has to choose friends wisely.
(cough, cough, Italians)
Well, we did choose wisely! Or at least, the government thought so - I suppose Franco was even wiser.
Anyway, to return to SEIV I think the game penalizes too much a technologycally backward empire.
Returning to an historical example, the Italian navy in WWII managed to get some surprising results without radars, carriers, decent air support and some other significant stuff - extremely bad research strategies, let's say...
(it's a trademark of the italian armies/navies throughout the centuries... we still employ F-104s, for example.)
Anyway, there have been many historical cases in which "art" proved to be much more important than "science" (or at least, "tech & production").
The battle of Agincourt is a good example, although a bit extreme.
My greatest complaint about SEIV are the points which can be safely obtained from such fields as repair and environmental resistance.
[Edit: I should not attempt to write meaningful phrases in a foreign language after 11 PM...
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[ 25 April 2002: Message edited by: Lisif Deoral ]