Overwhelmed by minor regime less than 5 turns into the game

[PMCN]

Well I had 3 infantry brigades, 10 or so independent battalions (6 of which were attached to the 3 infantry brigades) and militia units of various sizes (approximately 6 regiments and 6 battalions). I had also fought a civil war, then played the civil war card (stupid on my part) during it which made it worse and then had run into a situation where so far as I could tell I had enough food but my units were in bad supply so that took me like 10 turns to figure out what was causing things. So I wasn't building any more units during that time...then I was waiting on development of powerplant...and then once I had the tech I was stuck with the time to build it.

I was only recruiting 500 men per turn though I increased that after I took a look at the 17 regiments the AI major had. I was astonished at the horde of regiments I saw. Though I thought qualitatively my troops were better. I'm fairly sure my light tanks would win against theirs and my AT guns would slaughter them. My issue was mainly oil as I needed to expand my industrial base and that required power and power required oil...plus I needed to get more motorized and mechanized troops into the field...why on earth can you make motorized artillery and not motorized AT I can't fathom...and that required oil.

Most likely it wasn't 150 turns...but I had just taken my second city and had a reinforced infantry regiment going after the 3rd one. At least in this game I was not surrounded by slavering slavers inside of 10 turns...

[76mm]

ORIGINAL: Naselus
You only had 3 infantry brigades and some independent units by turn 150..?

Yup...I only had two cities, and i was in first place! It was a really cool planet—at least half empty, covered in forests and mountains, and crawling with hostile creatures. I started with militia, and fighting ff the giant crabs was brutal—for the first fifty turns or so!

Finally i bumped into two other major poweres, one on each side, and they both DoW’d me. I wasdoing ok until my supply network collased....

[seiSetill]

ORIGINAL: 76mm

Just started a new game at the beginner level in which my neighbors are slavers. They have no cities or resources in their territory, yet their army is bigger than mine, and they have tanks at the very beginning of the game. To top things off, a two hundred man slaver battalion has held off my 3000 man regiment for several turns in a row, inflicting heavy losses.

While I'm wrestling with the slavers, who have absolutely nothing worth conquering, my other neighbors are now encroaching from two other directions.

In my opinion the slavers need to be nerfed, because this isn't fun at all.

Yeah the slavers can be difficult to defend against if you aren't prepared, especially early. And you're right, there is little to gain from beating them except...defending against them.

I've used a "please all except the one I can deal with" strategy, and it has solved that early push problem. When they asked me to buy slaves, saying yes increases relationship. Keep saying yes until your relations are high enough to play "propose peace" from the minor strategems. That will stop them from constantly pushing into your territory, and makes them easier to manage.

I found that whatever penalty you get in the regime profile or happiness, far outweighs a <10 turn war with slavers. I will keep them happy all game as I conquer other regimes that can actually add to my empire.

[budd]

That's quite expensive and I rarely had the money to adopt that strategy,even if I wanted to.