Cant survive ww1 invasions?

[Phil khajeets]

My soldiers do nothing but run around in circles then get caught from all sides.
And my guard towers do no damage even with machinegun upgrade

[Lцсᶖаᶇ º¹]

Pretty much any battle issue can be won by just having a bigger military. If you use conscription then it's usually pretty easy to fill up the positions. If you wanna be sure that you can't have your palace destroyed then just smack down a couple of bunkers next to it. Guard towers are really just speed bumps unless you build a block of them and upgrade them all.

[Phil khajeets]

Originally posted by Lцсᶖаᶇ º¹:

Pretty much any battle issue can be won by just having a bigger military. If you use conscription then it's usually pretty easy to fill up the positions. If you wanna be sure that you can't have your palace destroyed then just smack down a couple of bunkers next to it. Guard towers are really just speed bumps unless you build a block of them and upgrade them all.

I went the professional army so I must change it huh?

[Kunovega]

You can use professional army, but you need enough highschools and infrastructure to actually have the time to teach enough high schoolers to be capable of taking those jobs

The other risk is that you build up your economy so quickly (with factories) that your high school educated all take the better jobs (in factories) because they often have higher job quality ratings than your military

So, if your island economy is not designed well you will simply not have enough left over high school workers willing to fill your soldier slots

I personally never use conscription after the colonial period, but unless you know the game well, you will struggle to fill soldier slots. With a professional army, you have to understand the entire economic and education structure to make sure you have enough educated people and that they not all gravitate to fill other parts of your work force first

Conscription is the safe option for people who don't know the game well. Professional army is the best military but takes a skilled player to micro manage and actualy have enough soldiers to fill the slots.

The third option, with militia is supposed to be a balanced safety net between the two where most of your army is professional and then you conscript civilians in emergencies, but I've yet to see it function correctly, seems like a broken waste of time.

[Phil khajeets]

Do you see the difference between professional and casual conscript army?
Because my 6professional army squad could only kill 1 enemy unit out of 8 enemy infantry squad and my 1 tank couldnt even kill 3soldiers[remaining of one unit]despite shooting them 4times in the chest with a tank round

[Lцсᶖаᶇ º¹]

It's just much easier to spam up some big army by using conscription. I doubt you could make a big enough from a previous save's worth of time with professional on. And no the bonus from professional isn't that great. I don't recommend it until cold war or modern era. In real life professionals are considerably more effective than conscripts, but that ain't the case here.