"Your all useless!" Benito Mussolini yelled.
"Grand fascist council my ass! You couldn't counsel anything!"
"But I'm gonna make my own council, a council of doooooooooooooom!"
*scary dark violin music*
"But isn't that just stealing ideas from the old great Scottish master of war Kan' Sharuminar?" one of the members asked.
"Nonsense!" replied Mussolini, "Kan always used a council of doom, i will have a council of dooooooooooooooooooooooom!"
*scary violin music again*
"Where's that music coming from?" somebody asked.
"Oh I've rented the Rome violin quartet to play scary music every time i say council of dooooooooooooooom"
*scary violin music again"
"Fancy, i know. But your all just wasting good furniture sitting there on your fat pizza round asses, get out before i have you all thrown in front of a train, and you know damn well it will be on schedule too!".
Alright, so i stole the council of doom. If anybody needs it, its Italy. Weak tech team, weak old army, not that much of manpower and a weak industrial base. But anyhooo, all that will easily be fixed by the great Benito Mussolini!
First off, lets see what we have to deal with.
The Italian boot, with our possessions in North Africa, Sardinia, and Rhodes.
Italian East Africa. We are at war with Ethiopia, and we have 20 divisions ready for our offensive, shouldn't be much more then a parade to Addis Ababa really.
Our diplomatic status. We make moves to become more hawkish. Yugoslavia has some of our rightful land! Which we hopefully one day will get back!
Our army size, the army is still using equipment from the Great war, and needs to get new equipment sometime.
Our airforce, while decent in size, it is horrible outdated with some planes dating back to the Great war.
The navy. Its not very big, and its also starting to age. If we intend to make the Mediterranean an Italian lake, it will need to be enlarged to have any hope of contending with the Royal Navy.
This is our current research. And here you see one of Italy's largest problem. It only has four research slots and can only research four techs at a time, unlike the major powers who can research 5. Italy currently does not have the industrial capacity to have 5 research slots. And that will be the councils first discussion:
Italy currently has a base IC (Industrial capacity) of 64. In order to get 5 research slots we need 80. Italy could build factories to get that up to 80. But if we build factories we cant upgrade our army, reinforce it, or produce anything new.
Option 1:
Italy needs 5 research slots if it wants to keep up technologically, right now Italy has the capacity to produce 8 factories a year, if we produce nothing but factories for 2 years, then in January 1938 we would get our 5 reserach team, plus have a base ic of a little over 80, in case we should lose some of it. This will in the long run allow us to train more soldiers, build more airplanes and build more ships.
Option 2
The Italian army is understrength and outdated, the navy is small, and the airforce is small and outdated as well. What Italy needs is a larger, more modern army, airforce and navy! To wait until 1938 before starting to increase the army is to large a risk, by then it might already be to late! Italy needs to increase and modernize its army, and it needs to do it no!
And so the council of doooooooooooom *scary violin music* was forced to make a decision. There could be no compromise. Benito Mussolini only had one problem, he needed to find himself a council fast. Everyone was welcome, he needed ministers, generals, admirals and advisers And a pizza boy would be nice too.
Council members
"Grand fascist council my ass! You couldn't counsel anything!"
"But I'm gonna make my own council, a council of doooooooooooooom!"
*scary dark violin music*
"But isn't that just stealing ideas from the old great Scottish master of war Kan' Sharuminar?" one of the members asked.
"Nonsense!" replied Mussolini, "Kan always used a council of doom, i will have a council of dooooooooooooooooooooooom!"
*scary violin music again*
"Where's that music coming from?" somebody asked.
"Oh I've rented the Rome violin quartet to play scary music every time i say council of dooooooooooooooom"
*scary violin music again"
"Fancy, i know. But your all just wasting good furniture sitting there on your fat pizza round asses, get out before i have you all thrown in front of a train, and you know damn well it will be on schedule too!".
Alright, so i stole the council of doom. If anybody needs it, its Italy. Weak tech team, weak old army, not that much of manpower and a weak industrial base. But anyhooo, all that will easily be fixed by the great Benito Mussolini!
First off, lets see what we have to deal with.
The Italian boot, with our possessions in North Africa, Sardinia, and Rhodes.
Italian East Africa. We are at war with Ethiopia, and we have 20 divisions ready for our offensive, shouldn't be much more then a parade to Addis Ababa really.
Our diplomatic status. We make moves to become more hawkish. Yugoslavia has some of our rightful land! Which we hopefully one day will get back!
Our army size, the army is still using equipment from the Great war, and needs to get new equipment sometime.
Our airforce, while decent in size, it is horrible outdated with some planes dating back to the Great war.
The navy. Its not very big, and its also starting to age. If we intend to make the Mediterranean an Italian lake, it will need to be enlarged to have any hope of contending with the Royal Navy.
This is our current research. And here you see one of Italy's largest problem. It only has four research slots and can only research four techs at a time, unlike the major powers who can research 5. Italy currently does not have the industrial capacity to have 5 research slots. And that will be the councils first discussion:
Italy currently has a base IC (Industrial capacity) of 64. In order to get 5 research slots we need 80. Italy could build factories to get that up to 80. But if we build factories we cant upgrade our army, reinforce it, or produce anything new.
Option 1:
Italy needs 5 research slots if it wants to keep up technologically, right now Italy has the capacity to produce 8 factories a year, if we produce nothing but factories for 2 years, then in January 1938 we would get our 5 reserach team, plus have a base ic of a little over 80, in case we should lose some of it. This will in the long run allow us to train more soldiers, build more airplanes and build more ships.
Option 2
The Italian army is understrength and outdated, the navy is small, and the airforce is small and outdated as well. What Italy needs is a larger, more modern army, airforce and navy! To wait until 1938 before starting to increase the army is to large a risk, by then it might already be to late! Italy needs to increase and modernize its army, and it needs to do it no!
And so the council of doooooooooooom *scary violin music* was forced to make a decision. There could be no compromise. Benito Mussolini only had one problem, he needed to find himself a council fast. Everyone was welcome, he needed ministers, generals, admirals and advisers And a pizza boy would be nice too.
Council members
