I'm playing Brazil, how do I build tanks?

[HossPorkchops]

I'm really enjoying this game but the documentation is *very* poor. Anyway, I've started a game as Brazil to figure the ropes out, mainly working on my economy. It's around 1944 and I've conquered a good chunk of South America (Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia) and it's all going pretty well.. except I never seen to get any new unit designs. Why is this?

I've got 7 research centers cranking and I research military techs that has an icon that says it leads to designs, but there's nothing there. It's 1944 and I still can't build a tank or an aircraft.

Can someone help?

[ARY//RØK]

I've had a similiar issue with sweden actually. I didn't get many designs despite being number 1 in research. I'm having to buy them off the states. Same thing for nuclear weapons. It seems like I'm unable to research any missle designs despite researching all the way up to high grade nuclear weapons.

[Sarkin]

alot of nations that aren't major powers (USA/Russia/China/Japan/Britain/France/Germany) don't really have much in the way of there units. an most didn't really develope there own designs until later than the game start. mostly the only way is to buy units designs from one of the major powers.

there supposed to add more unit designs/meshes for the world wide research but i don't know when that will be.

[wolf1455]

Sweden did infact design both tanks, airoplanes and a pletora of guns. Landsverk for an example cooped with germany in between the war to develop Tanks. SAAB (Swedish aeroplane company(AB) Still develop planes to this day. And Bofors made many of the anti air for the allieds and ofcourse for Sweden itself. Shouldent be so hard to implement some of the prominent design names to increase the imers. for players that play Sweden. I can help with a list if needed. Probably others too.

[C4P1T4N10]

there should be a worldwide set of designs for this countries, and they could be inferior to the great power ones, just to make these coutries playable

[Chris-BattleGoat]

<Shouldent be so hard to implement>

Not hard, just time consuming. With a small development team there's never enough hours in a day. We will continue to update this.

I do know there is some of the Swdish tanks/aircraft/ships in the game, I remember adding them to the database.

[wolf1455]

Yup, I already found some. Thanx for that. Viggen and Gripen Fighters too I hope.
cheers

[HossPorkchops]

Originally posted by chrisahl:

<Shouldent be so hard to implement>

Not hard, just time consuming. With a small development team there's never enough hours in a day. We will continue to update this.

I do know there is some of the Swdish tanks/aircraft/ships in the game, I remember adding them to the database.

In the meantime, what should I be doing as a player of a minor country? Do I just need to rely on buying designs from other nations?

It would be nice if the smaller nations could at least share a generic version of units. A generic 1933 tank, 1937 tank, etc.

[Tegron]

I would imagine you should be able to become friendly enough with large powers and purchase/trade techs that are needed, and with them the designs for units from the major powers... as Australia I got designs from germany and sold them to britain! :)

[Sarkin]

well for the most part aside from buying units from nations you can buy designs.

(buying units works if you don't have and land fabs)

there are plans to add more 'generic/worldwide' units at some point but i don't think theres a date for them.

the best course i've found to fight is use infantry/calvary/artillery an just simply be patient in taking each city use calvary to trigger garrisons an bombard them with artillery. use calvary to encircle enemy units an infantry to defend cities. slow process but it works well enough when you lack motorized units.

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Originally posted by chrisahl:

<Shouldent be so hard to implement>

Not hard, just time consuming. With a small development team there's never enough hours in a day. We will continue to update this.

I do know there is some of the Swdish tanks/aircraft/ships in the game, I remember adding them to the database.

Will there be any modding tools to allow the community to add units themselves? I remember a while ago someone trying to do this, but seems to have died off. It would be neat to see a community driven project for this and would make Supreme Ruler even richer with units, adding fictional and non-fictional units.

[Chris-BattleGoat]

Already possible;

http://www.supremewiki.com/node/42

That's the Cold War instructions, but for 3D Meshes and Units and Facilities the instructions haven't changed.

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Originally posted by chrisahl:

Already possible;

http://www.supremewiki.com/node/42

That's the Cold War instructions, but for 3D Meshes and Units and Facilities the instructions haven't changed.

Neat! Now community get to work!

[nephilimnexus]

What is interesting is that (I discovered this using cheats) most of your classic SR2020 tech & units are in this game. Yes, you can build SLAVIIIs and Woodsman mechs, etc. Catch is not everyone has them, though. The "future tech" database is only fleshed out for certain countries while others cap around 1950 or so (especially Germany - their aircraft lineup seems to end at the Me262 level).

Which means that if you were to play a really, really long game then the real decider will not be your strategy but rather whether or not you picked the right starting country, because when 1990 rolls around you could be using laser armed hovercraft or still flying biplanes, depending on which tech tree you got invisibly stuck with.

[Chris-BattleGoat]

This is incorrect. All the units from SR-Cold War and SR2020 are there meaning there are actual units such as the Leopard tanks in game and there is lots of generic fictional stuff for the modern era accessible to all regions.