Reality: About 70% of all military in WW2 was from one of the four infantry types (militia, motorized, mechanized or regular infantry).
CoW: There are only two very seldom edge cases in which I can imagine recruiting infantry might be the right choice: Either you don't have a single gram of steel (a situation that every skilled player knows to avoid) or a good human player attacks you during the very first days and you have to defend by building militia in every province.
Apart from that, recruiting infantry is always a mistake.
The following table shows that - assuming all ressources have the same value on the long run and cost 5.0$ on the market (note that I calculate the food consumption of barracks in a province with IC level 3):
For example compare 3 regular infantry with 1 artillery + 1 AT + 1 AA: Both are similarly useful and have practically the same production costs. But upkeep for the infantry is 60% higher. So why should I ever build infantry?
CoW: There are only two very seldom edge cases in which I can imagine recruiting infantry might be the right choice: Either you don't have a single gram of steel (a situation that every skilled player knows to avoid) or a good human player attacks you during the very first days and you have to defend by building militia in every province.
Apart from that, recruiting infantry is always a mistake.
The following table shows that - assuming all ressources have the same value on the long run and cost 5.0$ on the market (note that I calculate the food consumption of barracks in a province with IC level 3):
prod. ressources | prod. manpower | upkeep ressources | upkeep manpower | |
Militia | 650 | 1300 | 50 | 75 |
Reg. infantry | 1525 | 1300 | 90 | 110 |
Artillery | 1550 | 1000 | 50 | 60 |
Anti tank | 1900 | 1000 | 70 | 60 |
Anti air | 1350 | 750 | 50 | 45 |
Mot. infantry | 2410 | 1300 | 165 | 100 |
Armored car | 2400 | 675 | 110 | 0 |
Light tank | 3650 | 625 | 125 | 0 |
Medium tank | 5100 | 800 | 195 | 0 |
Mech. infantry | 3800 | 1200 | 190 | 100 |
For example compare 3 regular infantry with 1 artillery + 1 AT + 1 AA: Both are similarly useful and have practically the same production costs. But upkeep for the infantry is 60% higher. So why should I ever build infantry?