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Research and focus priorities heavily depend on which county you choose and your general strategy for the game (e.g. are you going to annex something before the war breaks out? Do you intend to join a faction or do things on your own?) Japan, Czechoslovakia and South Africa will have nothing in common in their research paths.

Arming path, again, depends on what you already have (also depends on the country). Ideally, you want to build civilian factories until the switch to war economy, but some countries need their arms yesterday.
Trade policy? Again, depends on what you have and what you need. Do you want faster research? Is there a shortage or excess of civilian factories? Will anyone buy resources you produce?

Explaining units will take time, I'll post tomorrow.

Beginner tip: a lot of guides are based on exploits that were patched out eventually. Do not let them shape your thinking, learn "normal" mechanics. Nothing in HOI4 requires cheese to succeed. Except Canada.Harper Creek’s Alex Fisher had the scoring touch in his team’s win over Pennfield in boys’ soccer action on Tuesday night.
Fisher netted five goals in the Beavers’ 7-0 shutout win over the crosstown Panthers.
Also for Harper Creek, Travis Garlock had a goal and an assists, Kevin Howard scored and Matt Scherer had an assist.
Quincy 2, Hillsdale 2 (Mon.): Quincy’s Ashton Diotte scored two goals in the season-opening tie.
Also for the Orioles, Nick Haberl and Jake Rider had an assist apiece.
(At) Bangor 3, Delton Kellogg 0 (Mon.): Delton Kellogg made nine saves in goal in the loss.
Marshall’s Top 5: Parker Cruz, 18:50; Kurt Swanson, 19:20; Weston Herman, 20:34; August Tierney, 20:46; Cam Regan, 21:17.
(At) Kalamazoo Chrisitian 8, Pennfield 0: Singles: No. 1: Rosenbaum (KC) d. Evan Thomas 6-1, 6-2; No. 2: Klein (KC) d. Dryden Lachance 6-0, 6-0; No. 3: Engbers (KC) d. Mir 6-0, 6-0; No. 4: Boes (KC) void; DOUBLES: No. 1: Waldron-Hertman (KC) d. Spencer Hunt-Alex Corneil 6-3, 6-1; No. 2: Long-L. Van Elderen (KC) d. Jacob Yeager-Jacob Smith 6-0, 6-0; No. 3: Sobering-D. Van Elderen (KC) d. Sam Stover-Ben Stephens 6-0, 6-0; No. 4: D. Niewounder-S. Niewounder (KC) void.
A few friends of mine were drinking in the city and some gigantic dude ran up and king hit some other guy, knocking his head directly into the curb.

Me and several other people had literally blood splatter on us a good 5m away. We had to physically hold his head in place as it was quite literally cracked open like an egg, blood coming out of every part of his face/head thankfully it was Saturday night and I'm the middle of a CBD so emergency workers were only moments away, but the 5 minutes of us holding his head trying to understand his desperate gargled pleas for help had stuck with me. I don't know if he made it, but I would unfortunately presume he did not.

Can Bowling Be Saved?
True believers are trying to renew the culture and sport of bowling in Knoxville before it gutters out
Frank Lovelace
Team “Love that BBQ” bowls during league night at the Strike & Spare on Western Avenue.
Walter Love, inspiration for the team’s name, eats an omelette between frames.
(l to r) Penny Merritt, Bill Wallace, Sonya Hall, Robin and Adam Campbell have a snack while Adam waits his turn.
Isaac Parrish, Jimmy Brey, James Brauntstin and Stevie Morrison.
Isaac Parrish prepares his roll while Jimmy Brey, James Brauntstin (rear) and Stevie Morrison (right) watch.
Wyatt DeRoche, 4, bowls during youth league play.
Karson Hood, 9.
Karson Hood, 9.
(l to r) Sara Aley, Ashleigh McGhee, Wynona McGhee, and Greg Stansberry “cosmic bowl” at the lanes on Western Avenue
Andrew Baumgarten is disappointed in his roll at the Strike & Spare on Western Avenue. The bowling alley has recently been remodeled, and each lane has a couch in the seating area.
Andrew Baumgarten and Tracy Lein wait their turns at Strike & Spare.
Nicole and Dewayne Clabough grab a bite to eat while Dewayne waits his turn on the lane.
Billy Majors was 15 when it happened, and the memory still stings: He was cut from the Fulton High School bowling team. "They told me I wasn't good enough," he says. "I about died. You don't know how devastated I was."
Majors carried his wounded pride over to a junior league at Fountain Lanes off Broadway, and within a month, under the tutelage of an older guy named Todd Wilson, he'd done it: rolled his first 300 game, 12 strikes in a row, only the third 300 ever thrown at the bowling alley.
Thus began Major's love affair with league bowling, which he's carried with him through 54 perfect games and 33 years, up to this day. Majors, who's 48 and a DJ at Cotton Eyed Joe and on WIVK known to most as "Boy Bill," owns seven different bowling balls and belongs to five once-a-week leagues, every now and then traveling to an out-of-town tournament.
But he's a die-hard—the exception, not the rule.
Because the booming middle class bowl-a-rama days—the stuff of Flintstones episodes—are over in this area, and in the United States, never to return. It's not that people don't still disco down to bowl with colorful lights and loud music on late nights at Family Bowl, or take a date out for a game and snarky remarks about the shoes at the University of Tennessee's Down Under facility in the University Center; they do. Open bowling, as it's known, is still pretty popular, though it did take a hit in this area, particularly when the ban on smoking in public places took effect in 2007 and made bowling alleys a little less appealing to the cigarette-and-strikes set. (Some 10-15 percent less appealing since 2006, according to local Strike and Spare owner Larry Schmittou).
But it's the leagues that are fading so fast they're flirting with oblivion. Nationally, according to a poignant, if a bit overdramatic, video made by ball manufacturer Hammer to preface the national "Save Bowling" campaign it kicked off on Dec. 1, three of four league-sanctioned bowlers have quit in the past 30 years. Knoxville, too, has seen leagues decline. Folks no longer seem drawn to the two-nights-a-week lifestyle with the little towels and the neon pink balls and the urgent quest for the highest score, the smoothest roll, the magic moment when the ball finds the sweet spot and the electronic scorer lights up with one word: Strrrike!!!
Not that we're expecting the heyday of the '60s and '70s to ever return, Laverne and Shirley-style leagues, everyone decked out in matching shirts and white socks, waiting lists for teams to sub in, every lane occupied. Leagues have strayed too far from that, so far that now bowling for some is purely nostalgia, a source of vintage clothing and neon signs, something you turn to once a year more in the spirit of historic re-enactment than the feverish competitive spirit that could keep a 100-member league and as many groupies in high mettle for an entire season.
League bowling around here is going, going—but not gone, not yet. Because there are still fervent believers who want the retro sport to be a significant current enterprise, to share the joy and the accomplishment of league play. Their strategy is not well-honed, but their aim is true: to preserve bowling for now, and into the next generation.
Strikes Against Knox Bowling
Smoky Mountain USBC (United States Bowling Congress) manager Polly Maples states it distinctly: "Our numbers are down, way down. We've lost 500 or 600 members just in the past three or four years."
The SMUSBC currently has 1,800 league members on the roster—men, women, and youth from Knoxville, Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Sevierville. When Maples started bowling in 1974, there were more like 10,000 certified, dues-paying league members in the same vicinity.
Across the U.S., about 10 million people bowled in the '70s; that number has bottomed out at 3 million today. Schmittou, who bought all three commercial bowling alleys in Knoxville in 2004 (Family Bowl in West Knoxville, Strike and Spare off Western Avenue, and Fountain