Can't build enough troops!

Have you tried to switch off unused barracks?

Well heck I forgot to do that for the last few days, thanks for the reminder. But even doing that is only going to give me enough to build 16 more infantry in one of the games and only 1 more inf in the other. I still want a bigger army.

I agree, the settings are ridiculous!

But btw, don't build to many INF, they indeed drain your grain supply.

Infantry drain both manpower and grain in disproportionately high numbers, experiment with the armour, air and naval tech trees some more to reduce your reliance on manpower/infantry.

Well, in most of my games, it's not the grain I have the problem with, (although it's still a very low positive) it's the manpower! I only get 100 manpower an hour, and I can barely produce anything. Sure, I have a big army that's doing nothing, but it shoudn't consume so much manpower!

Pablo22510 wrote:

Well, in most of my games, it's not the grain I have the problem with, (although it's still a very low positive) it's the manpower! I only get 100 manpower an hour, and I can barely produce anything. Sure, I have a big army that's doing nothing, but it shoudn't consume so much manpower!

What i do to overcome this, is just not to build more units then manpower is created on a day.

So i keep the rest as backup in case i need more. Just make sure you don't deplete it.

If you make 100 per hour you get 2400 new manpower per day, in that case just build 1 or 2 tanks a day.

But to get it as low as 100ph you must allready have a lot of consuming units.

I have no problems with the resources except oil and that is only on occasion? What do you find so hard? You can solve problems by going into the provinces tab and clicking the button that organises the provinces by res and build up the highest three. When those are done, build more. If you are really in trouble, go through all the provinces and build naval bases if you can, otherwise build infra.

The people who say not to build up non core provinces are wrong so don't listen to them.

Greetings,

I would disagree with you here. By building up your Infrastructure(Industrial Complexes, Infrastructure, and Naval Ports), making sure to expand(Capturing AI capitals), trading, usage and or exploitation of the stock market, and not spamming just infantry, you should do quite fine.

I would say the manpower requirements are quite fine as they are. Just waiting a good few hours should regenerate most of it. This is game where building up a proper army takes time, and losing your armies will be quite a blow.

---To be honest, I am easily capable of going from the default starting troops to over a hundred in the span of just a few days in the 10 player map as Germany, or the 22 player map.

---Building all tank army is horrible. Extremely weak to Air power, weak against cities. Will fail against fortified areas. Now, tanks are a primary early game unit to build up a lot of. Infantry, air power, and submarines come into player soon enough.

---That is all.

I disagree Czar, have you ever sent more that fifty medium tanks through a country? Twenty is bad, fifty wreak havoc.

Yes, tanks are the best. You obviously need infantry too, to support tanks in case of AT guns and to take cities, but most players don't even research AT guns.

Bill, build your 50 tanks, I'd like a stack on stack battle between the two of us :3

We can, I have that 50 in our game.

Awesome, I bet I can beat them with 16 units and 8 planes?

I have two nuke bombers and a strong navy, I am sure I could win.

Oh, I don't mean in the overall campaign (I do have the smallest power, army, and empire in that map) I just mean in that engagement between the two forces described.

Oh. Well, the fifty tanks have some inf and moto inf with them. Besides, you aren't the smallest, Yugo is with 13% army and no expansion. Although I am 37% army(and growing) with most of the map in my pockets. Just as well I am wearing cargo pants.