Attrition is too much

[Mashsmouth]

In enemy territory, it totally makes sense... But having 50,000 troops in the same place give you a 5% loss per month. 2,500 troops die per month because there's some magical limit that makes them get attrition in my own land.

Can anyone make logic of this?

[Lembley42]

yea... you have a supply limit, which simulates how many soldiers a province can nourish. its not magical or anything, its logical. if you have 50k soldier in some siberian province, they will die off pretty quickly.

So.. check you're supply limit, and tech it up, it gets up pretty quickly. But yea, the attrition on enemy fields is hard. I'd suggest dont form doomstacks and try to "search & seek" the enemy like in EU IV, just capture provicne after province with your stacks behind them, ready to engage any enemy army.
(this is im pretty sure wanted by paradox, since this was the new face of war more or less.)

[Mashsmouth]

Yeah. I understand the attrition in enemy provinces, but I'm talking about home. I still expected to be able to have at least around 40K troops in my capital...

[General WVPM]

It would be nice if you could take supply points from nearby provinces so in your capital you can have like 60k and the provinces around it like 5k.

[Lembley42]

Or soldiers just have normal food demand on own ground, while on foreign the goverment needs to buy stockpile food in order to supply them, and the supply limit only as a secondary "emergency" limit which will decrease over usage or something, since its hardly realistic that in the era of WW1 those huge armies simply lived for free by the peasants of the provinces in which they were present like in feudalistic times.

[Mashsmouth]

I was playing with the New Nations mod as Japan. It actually shows the Boshin Civil War, unlike the main game. I was Imperial Japan and only had a few states in the middle of Japan at Kyoto, my allies to the south and the enemy Shogunate to the north. When my allies came from the south (trans ships too inconvenient) my troops suffered 10% a month. Why? Am I giving them food? Still makes no sense.