no manpower left- what can i do?

[Kuebeleimer]

what can i do if i ve no manpower left?
i play as guatamala
took salvador, honduras, nicaragua, costa rica, panama, kolumbia, ecuador, peru, chille, and half of brasil- now i ve no manpower left!

[Apotheotic Otter]

You can change your recruitment laws to allow for a greater percentage of your population to be available for recruitment. Additionally, one of the land doctrine trees adds another 5% to your recruitable population.

[Kuebeleimer]

Originally posted by WalrusKing:

You can change your recruitment laws to allow for a greater percentage of your population to be available for recruitment. Additionally, one of the land doctrine trees adds another 5% to your recruitable population.

i m allready at max there

[equinox1911]

There is reecruitable population in 2 of the land doctrine paths. Or you conquer land with a LOT of population so the 2% you get makes a difference :D

[TheMasterBlaster]

manpower is a critical feature of military management for most of the minor countries. I usually play as Holland, they have pretty low frickin manpower no matter which recruitment setting I use. One of the keys in this situation is to make the most of the manpower you have. so, do you really need LOTS of infantry when you could get a lot more tanks or fighters for the same amount of manpower? Or instead of large infantry divisions, I like to use a small divisions of special forces with 3 or 4 supports battalions.

[Kuebeleimer]

Originally posted by equinox1911:

There is reecruitable population in 2 of the land doctrine paths. Or you conquer land with a LOT of population so the 2% you get makes a difference :D

the doctrine i ve in use
country with a lot population?- brasil? there is my problem!^^

[BoydofZINJ]

Even slightly larger countries like Mexico can have the same problem.

[Marcos_DS]

You can remove units to free up manpower. Maybe replace some infantry with tanks (tank units only use half the manpower of infantry units).

Also, if you took the russian or german land doctrine, they have some options to add more percentage of your population to manpower.

[Sohei]

Train and upgrade the quality of your armies to do more with less. Put field hospitals in all your divisions to conserve what manpower you have left. Can't expect a low population country to have the manpower take over the whole world though.

[BlueShirtGreyPants]

make sure you dont have total mobilization in combination with a lower recruitment, this will give you a negative manpower modifier and set it to 0. ie total with limited conscription would give you a -.5% i think total mobilization is detrimental for smaller nations from what i can tell as higher conscription incurs significant factory output making the gains nonexistent

[Kuebeleimer]

You can remove units to free up manpower. Maybe replace some infantry with tanks (tank units only use half the manpower of infantry units).

Also, if you took the russian or german land doctrine, they have some options to add more percentage of your population to manpower.
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Sohei besitzt Hearts of Iron IV Vor 8 Stunden
Train and upgrade the quality of your armies to do more with less. Put field hospitals in all your divisions to conserve what manpower you have left. Can't expect a low population country to have the manpower take over the whole world though.
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BlueShirtGreyPants besitzt Hearts of Iron IV Vor 8 Stunden
make sure you dont have total mobilization in combination with a lower recruitment, this will give you a negative manpower modifier and set it to 0. ie total with limited conscription would give you a -.5% i think total mobilization is detrimental for smaller nations from what i can tell as higher conscription incurs significant factory output making the gains nonexistent


ok thank u
your 3 advices r usefull:)

[_Pymm_]

Changing the occupation status of countrys can gain some recruitable pop from taken countrys click the flag and look at manage button down the very bottom

has other effects like more resistance tho..so supression squads

[traumspieler]

Ran into the same problem with france.

It's just something you don't expect to be be a major thing, but it's painfully realistic.

Looks like you have to watch not to fight too many battles with high losses.

There are only a few countries in the world that can afford to waste "human ressources"...

On the other hand it's very interesting to see how this may influence aggressive nations like germany in a longlasting war and if this will work out like in reality (with them not beeing able to compensate losses of pilots etc).
Loss of planes is very high for example and drains a lot of "human ressources".

[chaotix14]

Originally posted by TheMasterBlaster:

manpower is a critical feature of military management for most of the minor countries. I usually play as Holland, they have pretty low frickin manpower no matter which recruitment setting I use. One of the keys in this situation is to make the most of the manpower you have. so, do you really need LOTS of infantry when you could get a lot more tanks or fighters for the same amount of manpower? Or instead of large infantry divisions, I like to use a small divisions of special forces with 3 or 4 supports battalions.

Well you can go infantry + artillery as a manpower limited minor, you just need to make sure to slap a gield hospital onto every division and kep that tech up to date(the manpower trickleback and exp retention is quite powerful).

[AdahnGorion]

You should focus on field hospitals to conserve manpower, but I think its abit stupid that you don't get abit of manpower when you take over a country (even in RL most of the countries that Germans took over sent out divisions to help them afterwards)

But that would destroy the balance ofc :D thats the problem

[chaotix14]

Originally posted by Darkie:

You should focus on field hospitals to conserve manpower, but I think its abit stupid that you don't get abit of manpower when you take over a country (even in RL most of the countries that Germans took over sent out divisions to help them afterwards)

But that would destroy the balance ofc :D thats the problem

Then again the Germans did have a very good conscription system. "I see you have a nice family, it would be a shame if they got deported or shot because you didn't show up for conscription."