Re: Strategic Full Thrust

On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Michael Sandy wrote:

> If the initial production is negligible for the first
> 100 or 200 years then a 100-fold or 1000-fold increase
> in population could justify the colonies expense.
> That is a much greater timespan than most campaigns!

I agree with your reasonings. Personally, I've always thought that 
setting newly colonized wolrds to produce military units for you is at 
least a bit silly, and strongly reminds me of Empire (deluxe or not).

I can understand taking over existing production facilities, especially 
of raw materials, but building new ones is a bit too much...

It is, perhaps, because campaigns often ignore the real importance of 
forward bases: Supply and logistics.

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