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Original plan was to take ground up to that line and start building fortifications, air fields, positioning units. Mexico should have had 2/5 of population left.
Well, THAT didn't go as planned.
Declared war on Mexico and they ran hordes of artillery and Leopard 2a3 at me. They were attacked by my 9k62 and ships, hit my lines of Crows, decided to retreat, got hit again by arty and ships, then F-35s finished them off. After a couple of waves of this I moved in and met very little resistance.
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I moved into the Mexico City area carefully, large population centers can be dangerous as there isn't really any good place to stop and regain supplies without being under constant fire - but as soon as I took the area Mexico gave up! They had lots of land and population left and the plan was to push further north and capture a line, build AA and fortifications along it, move 2 lines of crows to it and start producing artillery only so I could get some full rows of that and AA behind the crows. Then finish Mexico off and declare war on the U.S. So I'd have a buffer zone while I prepared. Nope.
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So the usual after war stuff now and hope I get a few months. Connect EVERY city to a road, rails to every industrial complex, roads in large empty areas for units to travel on, scrap all conquered unit production buildings, air fields, sea piers, barracks, hydroponics, composite ore factories. Scrapping helps with industrial goods to build the new infrastructure going up, and I like to only have sea piers/air fields on tiles where I keep a stack of ground units. Basically strongpoints. I do make an air base/sea port/barracks in a safe location for repairs, and groups of air fields behind the front line for fighters to base from. After a war, the groups of air fields get removed and the fighters go to a new staging area.
I find it easier with only one production area and reserve storage. But you still need repair areas on each continent. Screenshots when I get home, rest of the day is just boring building and shipping troops from south africa to mexico.
U.S. should come at me down the nice highways and run into my fortified strongholds, where I will slaughter their planes and rows of artillery will create killing fields. There will be more stacks of Crows all along that line but the units there now are in the strongpoints with Fortifications and Laser AA. Maybe even supply buildings before all is done. I have boomer subs with 100 ballistic nuckes (1500km range) and 100 cruise missile nukes (can be shot down IF any planes/AA in the area but SOOOO cheap to make) off the east coast, west coast and gulf of mexico. Basic roads are still under construction... but i'll move 24 F-35 into each of those air field points and 1k Crow onto the front line/reserve staging area.
I can't use the Panama canal, so the west coast of Mexico vs American ships is anyone's guess. Hopefully with enough arty and F-35 support I can take them out. F-35 and 9k62 can both use the Saccade anti-ship missiles I made thousands of but the range is only 150km. We'll see if the U.S. gives me enough time, it's a 2 month trip from South Africa to Mexico by ship for my land units to arrive.
If nothing else I can use SLBMs against every barracks, sea port, air base the US has and they can't defend against it. Then follow up with nuclear cruise missiles if needed. But every nuke used it almost as bad as a declaration of war, Kim Jong Il will point at me and laugh at what a pariah I am after THAT strike. But hey, no barracks = nowhere to repair and all units in it destroyed too. We'll see.
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