How do i increase Manpower?

[肉末配棕色酱汁]

I get the indication that my manpower is low, but i don't know how to make it better. I can't make destroyers, so i think im screwed.

[Zuul]

Click on your flag in the top left of the screen.

In the stuff that pops up, the first row is "Laws & Government". The icon on the far left in this row is your conscription law. Click on it and then use political power to change your law. Conscription law from least manpower to most is....

Disarmed Nation, Volunteer Only, Limited Conscription, Extensive Conscription, Service by Requirement, All Adults Serve, Scraping the Barrel.

Each new law on the chain increases the % of your population that can be recruited. It's not a gradual increase, you just get a huge lot of new recruits dumped into your pool. Bigger is not always better though, as you start to see penalties to training time, construction, and factory output above Limited Conscription.

[NotSoLoneWolf]

Originally posted by Zuul:

Each new law on the chain increases the % of your population that can be recruited. It's not a gradual increase, you just get a huge lot of new recruits dumped into your pool. Bigger is not always better though, as you start to see penalties to training time, construction, and factory output above Limited Conscription.

I prefer Extensive Conscription, +10% training time but 2.5% of your population can be recruited.

Also, if you capture enemy territory, then, after the war/at the peace treaty, officially make the lands yours and you will get access to a little bit of the population there for your manpower.

[Zuul]

Well...5%, but yes, 2.5% more than Limited Conscription. For me it depends on what country I'm playing as.

If I'm playing Germany with their overflowing coffers of political power due to Adolf, I stay at limited until I nearly run out of MP, then switch to extensive. But if PP is going to be an issue, then yeah, it's not a bad idea to jump straight to extensive.

[肉末配棕色酱汁]

Originally posted by Zuul:

Click on your flag in the top left of the screen.

In the stuff that pops up, the first row is "Laws & Government". The icon on the far left in this row is your conscription law. Click on it and then use political power to change your law. Conscription law from least manpower to most is....

Disarmed Nation, Volunteer Only, Limited Conscription, Extensive Conscription, Service by Requirement, All Adults Serve, Scraping the Barrel.

Each new law on the chain increases the % of your population that can be recruited. It's not a gradual increase, you just get a huge lot of new recruits dumped into your pool. Bigger is not always better though, as you start to see penalties to training time, construction, and factory output above Limited Conscription.

How would i put paratroopers on transport planes?

[BellatorMonk]

Core countries have massive conscription rates. Non-core countries seem locked at 2.5% max.

[NotSoLoneWolf]

Originally posted by Zuul:

Well...5%, but yes, 2.5% more than Limited Conscription. For me it depends on what country I'm playing as.

If I'm playing Germany with their overflowing coffers of political power due to Adolf, I stay at limited until I nearly run out of MP, then switch to extensive. But if PP is going to be an issue, then yeah, it's not a bad idea to jump straight to extensive.

Ok, maybe I have my numbers wrong. As Canada, Limited is 1.5, Extensive is 2.5

[NotSoLoneWolf]

Originally posted by BellatorMonk:

Core countries have massive conscription rates. Non-core countries seem locked at 2.5% max.

Do you mean core and non-core STATES, or MAJOR and MINOR countries/nations?

[BoNeZ]

What about Service manpower? i am trying to base some planes in Poland but it says i do not have enough Service Manpower, i have plenty of normal manpower.

[NotSoLoneWolf]

Originally posted by Darth Vaper:

What about Service manpower? i am trying to base some planes in Poland but it says i do not have enough Service Manpower, i have plenty of normal manpower.

To be honest, I've never heard of Service Manpower. Google it?

[Drevin]

Originally posted by Darth Vaper:

What about Service manpower? i am trying to base some planes in Poland but it says i do not have enough Service Manpower, i have plenty of normal manpower.

Just to be sure, you are trying to say that you have plenty of manpower already in your army, or also on that field on top of the screen where it says the available (free manpower)? Because if that number is 0 except on the 1st of every month, then you don't have enough manpower to fill your needs.

[Gragha]

Im playin as Nicaragua im trying scraping the barrel but nothin is workin

[肉末配棕色酱汁]

Originally posted by LFG ISA Pigeon:

Im playin as Nicaragua im trying scraping the barrel but nothin is workin

They have an extremely low population, so they wont have a lot of manpower.

[NotSoLoneWolf]

What in the holy ♥♥♥♥ is this two year necro

[PuttBlug]

Originally posted by LFG ISA Pigeon:

Im playin as Nicaragua im trying scraping the barrel but nothin is workin

wow Lets meet up here in 3 - 4 years and talk about our experiences, or do you prefer some other long dead thread?

[肉末配棕色酱汁]

Originally posted by total warrior:

Originally posted by LFG ISA Pigeon:

Im playin as Nicaragua im trying scraping the barrel but nothin is workin

wow Lets meet up here in 3 - 4 years and talk about our experiences, or do you prefer some other long dead thread?

Lmao right? How did he even find this?