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Celphi:
I hope you're not mixing the two:
My referencing to THEOs are for TECHERS.
My referencing to DEMOS are for FARMERS.
If you're spending any $ on military tech during the first 800 turns as a FARMER, then you're not reaching your full potential. It would be like buying medical tech. All your $ should be towards military units / agri tech / military strategy. All the others don't help you grow or don't contribute enough to help you grow.
I can place t10 easy with farmer. The hard part is getting a win with one. I'm going to give techer a run this set. They seem to be the most stable of all the govt's.
If land grabbing then weapons and mil strat are a definite, I can see the logic in that. I would probably sacrifice quite a bit of early tech in exchange for the early land. That is the trade off between LGing and all-x and not so much which strat being played.
A tyranny techer would allow for tech to be built up as part of recouping readiness, with an early land goal a lot of the other techs needed can be acquired rather quickly if teching between 5-8k per turn. As a techer though I would need to sell 4-5 times a day on express. The only techs that would eventually matter is the military tech and weapons for the end of reset, everything else would need to be dwindled down to as close to 0 as possible. There is also a conversion to theo or demo, on reaching land goal, but it makes things a bit more complex. Leaving some land unbuilt persay so it is easier to go MBR, in which case the one tech I would absolutely want is military.
An all-x Demo Indy --> DMBR might be an interesting try.... build the indy side up until it matches the PM
hmmm I think I found my strat for this reset, I'm terrible at both indy and MBR, but have never tried these as a Demo, which may be what makes the difference. Has anyone here tried this before, if so how did it turn out?
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Now as a farmer:
As an all-x though I would definitely trade off the early wep and mil strat for mil tech, maybe some biz/res before the mil tech. The mil tech gives me options to buy military at a lower price if they spike on the public market. I can easily maintain a price range of 122 for troops and 502 for tanks no taxes, it also gives me an outlet if food prices crash.
to match my pm troops would have to sell @ $115 and tanks @ $474 anything above that I can ignore. If I truly max my mil tech out then tanks on the PM as a Fascist = $492 which would drive my public buy price down to $464. The extra $10 in savings though is way too costly at least for me.