Soldiers deserting army/Replenishment not working.

[Colonel Armfeldt]

So I started a game in 1792 as the Ottoman Empire, and my mapower is around 100,000 men strong. Coming from the days of 1444, this was a sharp increase, and I decided to merge all my existing armies, and recruit 10,000 more men, for a grand army of 194,000 soldiers. I asigned command to Cezzar Pasha, and set about in a brutal North African Campaign, cumilating in me and my vassal Algiers annexing Tunis and Tripoli. Next, I went ahead and invaded Funj (I think that was their name, they are North of Ethiopia), and achieved victory. A new Turkish vassal was established in the former enemy. The year is now 1811, and I have invaded Venice, and after taking the Ionian Islands (Corfu) and Dalmatia, I have noticed a problem. My 70,000 strong army will not replenish any of its troops, to go back to 194,000 men. Not only that, but it apears that soldiers are deserting, as the army has now shrinked to 64,000, despite the fact that I have not fought any battles. Any help?

[Reich Loyalist]

you sound like you are suffering attrition. If you look at the province it has a "supply limit" and that is how many units it can successfully have in it without you slowly losing manpower replenishing losses.

[Colonel Armfeldt]

So do I simply move my army to place with a larger supply limit (such as Constantinople), and the army would replenish fine?

[equinox1911]

Do you have ... like your whole army ... in --- one province?

[crisselis]

Escrito originalmente por itisazaan:

So do I simply move my army to place with a larger supply limit (such as Constantinople), and the army would replenish fine?

As long as you have manpower left , if not they will not replenish...
But , its a horrible ideea to stack all your armies in one province , they will drop like flies due to attrition

[Laladen]

Each province has a Supply Limit. You can see this on the province UI screen or conveniently on the Supply Limit mapmode. This supply limit is adjusted per army by adding the army general's maneuver rating. SO Maneuver rating + Supply limit = the amount of troops that can be in one province without suffering attrition. If there is a second army with a general with a different maneuver rating, the higher one is used (IIRC).

The amount of attrition can be seen by hovering your mouse over the little tiny skull on the army or by selected the army which brings up the army interface UI, and hovering over the skull icon near the top middle.

Split up your army into much smaller chunks when marching and space them out so there are never two armies in one province at the start of a month (when attrition is assigned)

[crisselis]

Btw..Does the AI suffer atrrition as well?

[equinox1911]

Escrito originalmente por BuNnY:

Btw..Does the AI suffer atrrition as well?

y

[Laladen]

Escrito originalmente por BuNnY:

Btw..Does the AI suffer atrrition as well?

Land Attrition: Yes
Naval Attrition: No

Source[www.eu4wiki.com]

[Fantastic Fwoosh]

It is inefficient to have your armies like that for numerous reasons.

That little skull icon on the unit screen is your rate of attrition, you suffer attrition by putting too many units in a province that cannot support it, you cain raise your supply limit by investing in manpower (if you have DLC) locally or upgrading your military tech.

> Very large armies like the Ottomans you describe should probably be moved around in smaller pieces to avoid dying, different terrains add (+/-) penalties to attrition, dont walk across deserts etc. and some nations have ideas to give you +1 attrition for being on their land.

> A mechanic called combat width lets so many of your men fight at once in a battle, too many people and they will not be in the fight but count towards it, if you throw a enormous stack of cheap (just infantry, no horses or cannons - horses flank & kill smaller platoons faster & cannons shoot multiple units at once ) infantry you are wasting your armies.

> High attrition eats men at the start of every month, from every single unit in the stack a small amount of men will be lost, putting pressure on your manpower to replace, eventually so many men will be lost or in demand you'll start losing people & getting additional costs to recruit more.

[Colonel Armfeldt]

Okay thanks guys! I was also wondering if you can evacuate an army from a neatral island which does not allow you access to their ports. I currently have an exiled army in Malta, but they my ships can not enter the Maltese port. Is there any way bring the 30,000 Turks in Malta back to mainland?

[Colonel Armfeldt]

Never mind, I figured it out. Thanks!