1 million manpower achievment?

[Z-hog]

Just finished my Ottoman playthrough but no matter how much territory I got I sat at like 390k manpower limit, even though my unit cap was like 600. What did I do wrong?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=675211759

[Z-hog]

I had the quantity ideas but not much else. Did manpower get nerfed or something? I remember having much smaller countries with similar numbers of manpower. Do territories give manpower limit or is it just the cored states?

[Goncourt]

Did you take the policies?

- Administrative ideas & Quantity idea group
- Quality ideas & Exploration idea group
- Quantity ideas & Exploration idea group

each give a 10% boost.

There is a 4th , but it requires pluto blah blah

[CptnPunchy]

I United the HRE. have most of Easter Europe under my control and I'm sitting at 800k

[Kitten Food]

If most of that land you took was left as a territory, then you aren't getting much manpower from them. Consider that you already are losing 33% from non-accepted cultures then the 75% autonomy from it being a territory. Plus, most of that 'filler' territory in central asia is low development. I am not surprised you didn't surpass even 500k manpower.

Make sure to take the policies, ideas and governments to increase manpower. Construct buildings everywhere and create states where it counts (ie: high development in europe, india and asia).

Muscovy is much easier to get this achievement with since they have great manpower ideas and access to the east or west.

[Fellini_Fiend]

Make more states. Prioritize the ones that have decent to good base manpower. You would probably want to go with Muscovy if you want an easy time to get this because Muscovy has TWO, not one, but TWO national ideas that give a boost to national manpower. So if you get quantity and choose the policy to get more manpower it won't be difficult to get.

[lvsz]

You probably need more war, take more land, this how big I was when I got it with Ottoman start.

[Quicksilver]

Moscovy also has the othodox manpower buff if you run at high patriarchal authority. (+33% at max)

[Fellini_Fiend]

Originally posted by eee-eee-eee-eee:

You probably need more war, take more land, this how big I was when I got it with Ottoman start.

Wow that Arabia. It's gorgeous.

[Michaelus]

you didn't even take Italy....