GarretSidzaka said:
thanks, my map pretty much sucks, but i can always improve it for next patch!! i will check here in a day or two to cunsult for patch. BTW nice map....
I happen to, um, have a map of US military bases. I can help you out here. I'll just list a couple of places that might be important here.
There are submarine bases in San Diego (CA), Norfolk (VA), Norwich (CT)?, Portsmouth (NH), The farthest north island of Hawaii with cities, and Guam. That's probably not complete, but something to think about.
Whiteman air force base is located south east of Kansas city. It has Minuteman nukes and B2 stealth bombers.
Minot air force base also has nukes, and it's just north of Minot (ND). Also in North Dakota is Grand Forks air force base. It's west of Grand Forks (ND), and it has nukes too. Lastly, there's Malstrom air force base, located east of Great Falls (MN), and it also has nukes. Again, this probably isn't complete.
In total, the US presently has enough nukes to wipe out the entire surface of the Earth. Most of that comes from nuclear submarines, but at least a third is probably land based. Something to consider.
Oh, which reminds me of a criticism. When you start the game, you have more military power than the US. That's fun, but in all seriousness, the US has the most powerful military force in the world at this time, and you're playing as a bunch of rebels. I was able to take Washington before my first turn had ended. I mean, that's just weird.
At least on harder difficulties, your military should be way smaller. I can see starting off with major cities, those would be prime grounds for urban guerrillas, and nearly impossible to control against popular support (Bush is at 33% support right now, and dropping, so if a war of this type did break out, you can expect it would be hell for him to try and control the major cities).
The main areas you would expect to see guerrillas would be the blue spots on this map:
It looks all twisty because it has been rescaled based on population. Here's the same map before rescaling:
As you can see, large population centers have a lot of democrats. That means more passive and active support for the rebels.
Another thing that bothered me about this was the old Soviet stuff. How did Russia get involved in this? That would probably be best fixed with an entry in the Syndicalist Comittee entry. But without that, I imagine the best you'd have would be jeeps outfitted with some AK-47s and junk armor, or possibly stuff stolen from US army bases. That's not really good enough to handle the most powerful military force in the world.
Edit: Before I forget, I got composites and I got a lot of stuff that composites didn't say it would give me, and didn't get a lot of stuff it said it would. I didn't get a stealth bomber, I did get mobile artillery, for example.