Unable to build Infantry

[ARollofCarpet]

I'm playing as Japan on the Ultimate mod starting in the year 1861. I immediately westernise and the ability to build Infantry goes regardless of the fact I have all the critieria for Infantry building. Help!

[Birb | Donate to UNITED24]

You have infantry in queue? There is not enough supplies to build them.

[ARollofCarpet]

No I can build everything else and I checked the supplies, even done a goods cheat of 50000 and still nothing :/

[HuNgRyHiPpO]

Vanilla>Mods

[jcaf]

Do you have enough soldiers in your population? You need at least 1,000 soldiers for your first infantry unit, and 3,000 soldiers to have a total of two units (I'm not sure if these numbers are the same for every country).

If you don't have enough soliders in your population, set your National Focus to Encourage Soldiers, and make sure your Military Spending slider in your Budget screen is maxed to the right.

[Danger Close Dan]

Encourage soliders in your regions, make sure you have a stockpile of small arms & regular clothes?

By the sounds of it there isn't enough small arms & clothes to build the troops, is there a lot of wars going on? Chances are there is none to spare on the world market.

[ARollofCarpet]

Okay thanks guys I'll give it a go :)

[jcaf]

One more thing... make sure you have a check mark in the "Stockpile" check box. You'll find it on the Trade screen, bottom right of the screen, immediately to the right of the "Stockpile" column header. This check mark allows your pops, factories, and troop construction to access the construction materials they need. Without a check mark here, nothing will be built even if you have the needed supplies in storage.

You can save yourself the hassel of mannually filling up your storage of small arms, canned food, and ammo by setting each good to auto-buy by putting a check mark in each good's "Automate" check box.

Once your units are built, keep these check boxes checked (the Stockpile check box as well as all the varioius auto-buy check boxes) so that your military units can continually have access to their daily supplies.

Lastly, make sure the "National Stockpile" slider in the Budget screen is maxed to the right, which pays for your unit's daily supplies. Without this slider, your units will not receive their daily rations. This slider does not affect the building of your units, just their maintenance after they are built.