Manpower

[Lils]

So I finished the tutorial and the game's explanation of manpower just totally confused me. Can someone explain it please?

[Mr. Frank]

manpower, to me atleast, seems pretty easy. manpower is where your troops (not mercenaries) come from. you can have all thge money in the world, if you have no one to fight then you cant raise more regiments or reinforce your losses. there is a total limit and there is how much your current manpower raises monthly. i don't know how to raise the total number, but to raise how much it increases, among other ways, is by building barracks on your provinces. if there are more questions i fear i won't be of much use. what else do you want to know?

[tonypa]

Think of manpower as total number of men available for your armies. Let's say you got 10k manpower. That is 10,000 men who you can use. Now, suppose you hire new regiment (no matter if it is infantry, cavalry or artillery), it will cost some gold and it uses up 1k from your manpower. So, you got 1 new regiment and 9k manpower left.

Once your manpower goes below maximum amount, it will start to slowly fill up. About 1% every month, so with 10k total manpower you will get 100 new recruits each month.

Same manpower is also used when your armies lose man and need to reinforce. Suppose you walked over enemy territory, occupied some land or sieged fort. These things all use up some of the men and so the manpower pool is used to send up men to the regiment (this happens behind the scenes). Suppose your army lost 2k men, these will now start to move from manpower pool into your amry until it is at full capacity again.

Now if you run out of manpower then you can not hire new regiments and your armies that have taken damage will not get new men to increase their size back to full.

There are several factors that can change the total manpower size or reinforce speed. In general terms you don't want to start new war until your manpower is at 100% and you want to end current war (if possible) before your manpower reaches 0.

Then there are mercs. Mercenaries do not require manpower to hire or reinforce. They take gold instead. Lots of gold. As long you got money, you can get new mercs and they also reinforce after battle by using gold instead of manpower.

Did any of this help?

[runequester]

The crash course explanation is that manpower is a resource that is expended just like gold, to build troops and replace combat losses.

Each province provides manpower at the start of every month, this goes to your units (to replace dead) and the rest is stored in the bank.

[Lils]

I guess I should have explained what I was confused on better. I know that manpower is the number of troops I can possibly raise. I'm just confused because the tutorial said something about ten years. Is that the total number of troops I can ever possibly have for ten years? I don't get it.

[kaiyl_kariashi]

it takes 10 years for your manpower pool to completely refill from 0, assuming there's no extra consumption or MP growth modifiers.

[Lils]

Автор сообщения: kaiyl_kariashi

it takes 10 years for your manpower pool to completely refill from 0, assuming there's no extra consumption or MP growth modifiers.

Thanks. The tutorial either just didn't explain it well or I wasn't getting what it was saying (Probably the latter.), so thanks for clearing that up.

[kaiyl_kariashi]

it's important to know, since the Let our manpower replenish mission is basically saying, don't go to war for up to 9 years or you fail.

[Lils]

Автор сообщения: kaiyl_kariashi

it's important to know, since the Let our manpower replenish mission is basically saying, don't go to war for up to 9 years or you fail.

I didn't even know that was a mission. So is it even worth it then?

[mellow]

Автор сообщения: kaiyl_kariashi

it takes 10 years for your manpower pool to completely refill from 0, assuming there's no extra consumption or MP growth modifiers.

also it increase faster if you have more max manpower

[tonypa]

Автор сообщения: Ozzy

Автор сообщения: kaiyl_kariashi

it's important to know, since the Let our manpower replenish mission is basically saying, don't go to war for up to 9 years or you fail.

I didn't even know that was a mission. So is it even worth it then?

Not really. Unless you have regency for at least 10 years or you have killed off every neighbour already.

[tonypa]

Автор сообщения: an lol mellow

Автор сообщения: kaiyl_kariashi

it takes 10 years for your manpower pool to completely refill from 0, assuming there's no extra consumption or MP growth modifiers.

also it increase faster if you have more max manpower

hm... I don't think it does increase faster. It does not matter if your mapower is 10k or 100k, it will still have same base refill rate (about 1% per month). Yes, you will get more troops every month with larger manpower but you also need more to completely fill up.

[mellow]

Автор сообщения: tonypa

Автор сообщения: an lol mellow

also it increase faster if you have more max manpower

hm... I don't think it does increase faster. It does not matter if your mapower is 10k or 100k, it will still have same base refill rate (about 1% per month). Yes, you will get more troops every month with larger manpower but you also need more to completely fill up.

well ya,