Production

This article is considered accurate for the current version of the game.

Production is how a country manufactures military equipment, consumer goods, infrastructure, and buildings.

Factories

There are three types of factories:

• Civilian Factories: Infrastructure, Buildings (including Repair). May also be used to trade Resources from other countries.
• Military Factories: Infantry/Artillery, Armor, and Aircraft.
• Naval Dockyards: Ships, Submarines and Convoys.

Each State is set to a Regiontype, which then decides the default number of Factory slots. Various National Foci increase the maximum Factory cap, and various Techs give percentage bonuses to how many Factories a state can have.

Regiontype	Default number of slots	Example State
Megalopolis Region	12	Greater London Area
Metropolis Region	10
Dense Urban Region	8
Urban Region	6	Svealand
Sparse Urban Region	5
Developed Rural Region	4
Rural Region	2
Pastoral Region	1
Enclave	0	Gibraltar
Tiny Island	0	Gotland
Wasteland	0	Amazonas

Each factory has a Factory Output of 10.

Production lines

Production is organized into production lines, each of which produces a single type of equipment at a time. Up to 15 factories may be assigned to a single production line.

Production Efficiency

Each Production Line has an efficiency value associated with it. The higher the efficiency, the faster the Production Line produces Equipment, up to a maximum value. Running the same Production Line continuously increases its Production Efficiency.

Changing a Production Line to a different type of Equipment reduces its efficiency depending on how drastic the change is. From least to most:

• -25%?: Different variant of the same model (e.g. Panzer III Ausf. F -> Panzer III Ausf. G)
• -50%: Different model of the same chassis (e.g. Panzer III -> StuG III)
• -75%?: Different chassis of the same family (e.g. Panzer III -> Panzer IV)

Ships under production can be converted into another variant for increased production time depending on how large the change is and how far into production the ship is.

Resources

Unlike previous games, resources cannot be stockpiled---they flow directly to production with any excess resources being effectively wasted.

Raw materials

All equipment requires a single "raw materials" resource to produce.

Strategic Resources

Some Equipment requires Resources to produce. Lacking sufficient Resources will slow the production of that Equipment.

There are six Strategic Resources.

Icon	Resource	Required to produce Equipment
	Oil	Planes Tanks Ships
	Rubber	Planes Tanks Trucks
	Aluminum	Planes Support Equipment
	Steel	Guns Ships Tanks
	Tungsten	Anti-tank Artillery Jet Planes
	Chromium	Modern tanks Battleships Battlecruiser Carrier

Equipment

Land divisions and air wings are not produced as atomic units. Instead, factories produce individual tanks, airplanes, and so forth. This equipment is then sent to fill out the country's land divisions and air wings. Unlike resources, equipment can be stockpiled.

Equipment	Supplies
Anti-Air	Anti-air
Anti-Tank	Anti-tank
Artillery	Artillery
Infantry Equipment	Engineers Infantry Military police Recon
Light Tank	Light tank
Mechanized	Mechanized
Medium Tank	Medium tank
Support Equipment	Engineers Field hospital Logistics company Maintenance company Military police Signal company
Trucks	Field hospital Logistics company Signal company