What's wrong with Fascism?

[Argetnyx]

Why does every body hate Fascism ? I think it is the best government type out there. I am a war like person and need all the extra units i can get. Since it is a late gov, there are plenty of large cities for more free units. The strong workers also help in rebuilding the conquered civs.

 

[The Omega]

Well, force resettlement means that you lose some pop in most of your cities when you switch (Not a very good thing), and xenophobia makes it so captured cities don't gain culture until you've assimilated/wiped out all them foreign types. And then there's the whole sacrificing population to hurry things, which, while some people prefer, I don't really like.

 

[Argetnyx]

Force resettlement is not such a big problem, you just came out of anarchy right? The xenophobia is what i view as the conquences of a war, the military police level of 4 helps the assimilation process. I usually don't hurry production so pop sacrificing is not a problem.

 

[The Omega]

Fascism is useful for a mid-sized empire, or one with lots of pollution. However, larger empires should go for Communism, as communal corruption and two forbidden palaces pretty much eliminates all your corruption worries forever.

 

[vmxa]

Two huge problems with Fascism. First is forced labor. This may not be a big problem in your towns, but it is a huge problem in captured towns as they have little pop to use.

Second is you have to have another anarchy and if not religious that is a huge hit at the point in time where you can least afford it.

A third problem is that it is an optional tech at a time where you have better techs to learn. Some of us do not research Nationalism, so that is two optional tech to research.

Just exactly when do you want to work on those techs and not work on say Steam, RP, Ind or the ToE?

Monarchy is an AA tech and is just fine for Alway War. Troops support becomes a lessor issue at this point in most games as you are starting to get quite large hopefully.

Corruption, I don't care about. I am only using the core for troops anyway, the rest are farms.