Stalin's Dilemma

CapTVK · June 24, 2001, 18:34

There's a new game available at the Underdogs site called "Stalin's Dilemma". It's a game intended for history classes where you have to build up the Soviet union from a rural to an industrial society by the use of 5-year plans. The goal is to reach a certain prod/mil level to stop the german invasion. Without killing off large parts of your own population.

The game itself is very small and has a basic interface. Lots of numbers at first glance. But it becomes easy after the first two tries.

playing tip: setting high quotas in combination with collective farms can be very productive. Who says a plan economy doesn't work?

tniem · July 4, 2001, 12:18

What is the website address?

Garth Vader · July 4, 2001, 12:29

http://www.theunderdogs.org

KrazyHorse · July 4, 2001, 12:41

The underdogs is great...it's where I got my copy of MoO.

Garth Vader · July 4, 2001, 13:55

Man that's tough. Best I could do is meet one of my objectives. Military is easy, I don't know how you'd get 48 factories though. Especially if you want a 1 SOL.

Garth Vader · July 4, 2001, 15:00

Ok, building 48 isn't too hard, but I don't have enough people!

Eternal · July 4, 2001, 23:36

Wow! Do you get to purge!

DaveV · July 5, 2001, 17:25

I am a hero of the human race (47/66/1.4378, 9 million deaths)! The secret for me was to rip most of the workers out of factories and put them on oil fields and then in mines. There's no analysis of your situation after the third turn, so you're just trying to meet the victory conditions at that point, regardless of the impact on your citizens.

Garth Vader · July 5, 2001, 18:46

How do you keep your deaths under 12, with two rounds of force collectivization I always get 12. Even if I spread good arounds in the first 2 plans.

DaveV · July 6, 2001, 07:34

Lots of tractors. I think I bought 12 on the first round. As far as I could tell, goods didn't seem to make any difference in how many people died; it seems to be based purely on food production.