Office of the Economic Minister

[greeny]

If we are agreed on rush-buying Electrification then it doesn't matter where it is built, production is irrelevent, so it makes sense to built it in Sverdlovsk rather than Moscow. Sverdlovsk is currently working on the Labour Front wonder so Electrification would "only" cost
1136(,000) rubles.

Also Comrade EZRhino: your going to need to look to the defence of the Caucuses now that Kotelnikovo has been taken, there are plenty of red guards and and a KV-1 division in the area, also a traspost of 3 Naval Infantry could land in Novorossiysk to help. The Shturmovik about to be completed in Grozneyy is your best defence however, the Germans will have to advance over roadless terrain to get to your positions so will be sitting ducks for air attack.

[Bossy20000]

Shouldn't we continue to build the Labour Front in Sverdlovsk? If it doesn't matter where we build it, I would build it where it would cost the least, without having to change production of wonders in other cities.

[greeny]

Sverdlovsk won't finish labour front for 17 turns, building Electrification here will not waste shields due to changing from Improvements/Units to wonder. Labour Front could be built in Moscow in 8 turns, but then again it could build 4 Shturmoviks in that time. How many rubles per turn would Labour Front save us? (pays for all improvments which cost 1 gold per turn).

[greeny]

Armaments Ministry Rush-Buy Requests for July 1942

Electrification in Sverdlovsk- 1136k rubles

Grain Elevator in Krasnovishersk- 92k

Grain Elevator in Rokitno- 116k

Steel Mill in Zlatoust- 272k

Red Guard in Uralsk -13k

[H Tower]

could we move the wonder building discussion to either the armaments minister thread or even a new thread please?

[Shaka Naldur]

july1942
1st Ukrainian front

Vorozneh Sturmovik 100
Bryansk AA battery 85

[Colwyn]

Requests

Belorussian requests :

Urgent:

Nikov - Kolletiv (so it doesn't stave get disbanded in winter) 116k i need to stock up on food this turn.

Bialystok - Barracks (front line city now) units will take a hammering next turn need to be healed!) 160k

Important -

Kolektiv in Zangov (change) Zangov will be a industrial city soon, bigger than even the urals, please help now so we can get it up and running.

Other - Salient citys many small purchases such as red guards etc will only cost a little bit ie 30k etc please do a few

Sold improvements worth 120k sewar.

[FiGu]

July'42

I got no Rush buy requests this turn..

[conmcb25]

Re: Requests

Originally posted by Colwyn

Kolektiv in Zangov (change) Zangov will be a industrial city soon, bigger than even the urals, please help now so we can get it up and running.

I shall make a note of that and make sure to confer with the Marshall on transferring this city to the Armaments minister!

[PinkyGen]

Comrade Alexi, may I ask why the marketplaces and sewers were not disbanded?

[EZRhino]

Have faith Pinkygenovitch.

[PinkyGen]

Never doubted you for a second boss.

Also, it appears we discovered 85 AP tank gun very fast, in one turn. Since this may happen again, I want to take opinions on the next tech after the mobile warfare III advance.

Options and opinions:
Advanced Research: Research Lab, will lead to Tankograd. In my view, can wait.

Civil Defense: Path to air defense corps, allowing us to build more air defenses. Also superferlous, we seemed to have become more proficient in the air on our own.

Advanced Flight IV: Leads to Yak's, we all know how much we like these.

122mm Gun: On the path to mobile warfare IV, the unit for this advance doesn't even seem to exist yet.

Assault Artillery: Unit also not availible, anyone knows what this would be build? More assault guns?

Recommendation: Advanced Flight IV. The only one that gives us a unit, the beneficial Yak-9 to start replacing those La-5's.

[H Tower]

To drive into Germany we're going to need Assault Artillery, but that won't show up before November at the earliest, maybe later. Could a RF expert clue us in here?

Yak's would also be good too have, our La-5s are just no match for German planes

[Colwyn]

Assult art only let you build T34/85 and SU-152 neither of which have ignore city walls.

Normal Artillery and Kayusha's are the only options.

[Bossy20000]

I think we better research the Yak's first, if our research is high enough we can research assault artillery afterwards, before winter begins. We could use better fighters to counter German air raids on our liberated cities.