Australia - HOI4 - Late Spring 1936

There is a third option for Australia and that is to remain democratic and leave the Empire. It can hope to inherit the Dutch East Indies after the Netherlands have been defeated. It can later woo the USA and attack Japan as an independent nation. I don't have to decide yet though. Here are the three major powers in the region: The Soviet Union and Russia are not democratic so there is little I can do
with these nations at the moment.
With the UK I have a couple of interesting options. I can request to build their weapons under licence. Also I can request Lend Lease but they don't have enough equipment for their own forces so that is not a real option.
Some stats for you - annoying is having to wait 380 days before a new Civilian Factory arrives.
You can also see my navy patrolling the three seas east of the country.
I have enough PPs to choose a few goodies but I shall save them for something bigger later.

At the end of April my army is now fully trained and have garnered 10 Army XP which I shall also save for later.
The second National Focus completes on 20 May 1936. Germany has decided to occupy the Rhineland. Notice that World Tension has increased to 5%.

 I select Standard Gauge Railway as my next focus....
….then I move my 3rd Infantry Division to Papua.  I was bored.
Two things happen at the end of May. The Italians complete their conquest of Abyssinia and my research for Basic Machine Tools has finished.
I select to research Concentrated Industry next. Amongst other things it will increase factory production by 15%.
The Spanish Civil War begins on 25 June 1936 and World Tension increases to 6%.
It doesn't affect us but Communist and Fascist countries can send 'volunteers' which gain XP for their nations. They can also use Lend Lease to get rid of old equipment.
That's all for this post. Until soon.


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