This article is talking about a feature, formable, or mechanic that has been removed from the game on 11/11/2022. This page has been preserved for historical and or informational purposes.
| “ |
|
„ |
| — Description of forming Zaire |
Zaire was a formable located in Central Africa 
. It was easy to form, requiring only two nations: Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was removed from the game on the update of November 11, 2022, along with many other African formables.
Background
The Republic of Zaire was a dictatorship established after a military coup in 1965 by Mobuto Sese Seko. Mobuto got his opportunity to create the state following the Congo Crisis after Belgium granted independence to its colony, Congo.
Zaire would come to an end in 1997 following ethnic outcries from the Rwandan Genocide and a coalition raised by several African nations and rebel groups to overthrow Mobuto's government and kill Mobuto as well.
Following Zaire's collapse several terrorist and insurgency groups wreaked havoc in the area due to unsatisfaction and ethnic violence from the war that ended Zaire. It was because of this that according to some the war never really ended.
Economy and Manpower
Starting Conscription Law: Volunteer
+1,708 manpower daily.
Manpower Cap: 443,354.
Population: 22,167,700.
Population
Zaire has a total population of 22,167,700. The majority was in the DRC.
Geography
The country has no terrain. The entirety of the Republic of the Congo was Jungle, and the northern part of the DRC was Jungle as well.
Resources
+1 Copper
+1 Chromium
+3 Diamond.
+1 Gold.
+2 Oil.
+1 Uranium.
Threats
There are very little threats to formation, only including Angola and Egypt if you play as the DRC. Very rarely do players choose Angola, and Egypt likely won't invade you before you form. South Africa might try and annex you, but they’ll likely be preoccupied with forming South African Union, so don’t worry about that.
Strategy
First, move Home Guard within reasonable distance of Kinshasa/Brazzaville. Justify war of Republic of Congo, and in the meantime build up manpower. Once war was justified, use your 100k troops to wipe out Brazzaville’s Home Guard, and then set to auto capture. Demand terms from Republic of Congo, and thus you have formed Zaire.
Once Zaire was formed, you should annex Gabon and Equatorial Guinea for manpower, money and resources, then expand south. By this stage, South Africa, Egypt and very rarely Angola will be your main threats, so focus on taking out South Africa before anything else. Now you’ll need to research anti tank technology in order to withstand the massive tank rush South Africa was about to unleash, and maybe throw in a bit of artillery as well.
If you started as the Republic of Congo
First, buy 4 copper and 4 gold, build a electronics factory in a city outside of Brazzaville, then make artillery. Sell the electronics once the factory was done and make recruitment centers. Justify on the DRC and move your home guard away from a distance, make a destroyer near the DRC's home guard, turn on high government spending and turn on the welfare act and the military service act. Switch your ideology to nationalism and declare war, now you may lose your capital but at least the artillery could do damage to the home guard of the DRC, now make alot of troops, wait 'till the home guard was about 15k and attack Kinshasa, now slowly take the rest of the DRC, once you have taken them, peace and form.
If the DRC was a player
Well, you are doomed unless if they are a noob, make alot of forts and turn on government spending to high, now make a electronics factory and buy the resources needed for it, go socialist and sell alot of electronics to AIs, now with alot of income arty spam at the border with the DRC and justify war, make submarines and destroyers with enough oil, buy tungsten, iron, and titanium from AIs and make a steel factory and a motor factory, after it's done make tanks and declare war, land troops at the panhandle to the sea of the DRC and blitzkrieg as fast as you can. They will most likely surrender and give up their land to you, now form Zaire and the job was done.
Trivia
- Zaire's flag is still present in the game, featured in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo's fascist dynamic flag, which was added in the 12/23/2023 Update (December 23, 2023)
