How many factories?

[blubalou]

Is there a good way to guage how many factories a given region will support and should have?

[Joel Billings]

It's not so much a question of region, since resources move freely between areas as needed as long as there is a land and/or transport link between the resource and the factory. If you're asking about building new factories, it's much more a question of how many additional factories that player can support with his likely resource income.

[blubalou]

Ya, I am asking about building new factories. Since they take so long to build, I'm trying to determine up front how many I should consider adding. For example, if I start as WA in scenario I.... most of the territory is politically frozen for the first 4 - 6 moves, so it seems a good time to invest in research and maybe build some new factories. But I have no idea how many I should consider adding

[aletoledo]

I've played around with adding factories and I've limited it to only a couple of instances. I like to add a factory in the northwest USA when playing the WA because it doesn't do a who;e lot with a single factory there anyway. the other case is if I'm attacking russia as the japanese, because eventually you can outstrip your starting factories if you're successful.

germany and russia seem to be able to use each others captured factories well enough to not need to build any new ones.