Do naval and air bases purhcases count toward the ic build limit?

@surfer thanks for that clarification

Thank you. That was the conclusion we reached, and the airbase ended up, rather uselessly, on the West Indies.

Oh, awesome. We thought you had to own the base. That actually makes a lot more sense as far as realism goes.

if I buy an Industrial Complex with Germany, it goes off the Adriatic Sea where I can dump boats to help defend Italy.  A Major Complex in Romania sounds great on paper, but I’ve seen it a few times and, in my humble opinion, you are better off getting 10 infantry and walking them down there.  Even better, I think, transports in the North Sea as it lets you threaten North Russia, Leningrad, Scotland and England as well as moving off the coast of France.

Just my opinions and observations.

They start with major ICs in Europe 1940 and in Pacific 1940.

Minors that automatically upgrade to major when at war in Global 1940.

Thanks krieghund!

It’s rather funny because I’ve been thinking the same exact thing as you. Before I knew the official setup, I though Germany would have close to 20 aircrafts… I managed to work on the setup too and, based on the strength of the airforces in Europe (remember that Germany has only 8 aircrafts), I removed even more aircrafts from the Pacific map than you did. Now Japan “only” has 12 aircrafts (this is enough IMO), US 4, India 1, China 1 and ANZAC 1.  In order to balance things IPC-wise, I had to remove 8 infantries in Russia along with a few other ones on the allied side. (Look on wikipedia: 5 infantries in Malaya is way too much when compared to the armies in Europe.) I’m gonna try this as soon as possible and see if it’s balanced (and fun…).

As I said, the only time this would be good is if Russia holds all its territories and is about to attack Germany, and so Japan captures 1 territory to stop them.