Brigade limit suddenly dropped

[Palmerdale]

Playing as Sweden vanilla, I built to 20/20 brigades. Somewhere between 1839 and 1843, the max brigade limit dropped to 20/3. Most of my brigades are now 0 strength, and a miserable fighting force. Any ideas what may be happening? I'm using 2 NF, both on immigration.

[Lembley42]

Immigration Foci are completely useless.

I'd say its either because you dont pay your soldiers, so they become farmers, craftsmen and the like (sounds like it, Budget -> Military Spending), or you had a war or something, and your men simply died off.

Brigade count is tied to soldier province population - e.g. you need 3.000 soldiers in a province, in order to get 1 Brigade count (well, not exactly, and there are differences between colonies, core provinces, non-core non-colony provinces, etc. but thats the basic idea).

Or, vanilla is simply bugged :P The game has some problems withouth the two expansions

[Palmerdale]

I don't understand why it happens so suddenly, though. I replayed my scenario from 1839 again, and the same problem occurred around 1840. It went from 20/20 to 20/4 in a period of 3 months.

I bought all the expansions through Steam, so I own the later expansions. How do I start the later expansions, to try to reproduce this? I have a single desktop icon (no start menu installed), and it seems to ignore any of the Paradox start options.

[Lembley42]

I'm not sure I get what you are asking.
If you bought the expansions, you have them automatically applied and play with them - there is no other start icon for those. Version should be v3.03.
But, again, not so sure what exactly it is you're asking :P

[DirtyClaw]

Well there is really only two explanations if your supported units dropped from 20 down to 4 in just 3 months.
1. Attrition. You are placing way to many units in one province if you see a skull icon they are dying from attrition check the province for supply limit and deploy accordingly.

2. You are experiencing a strange bug in the game, maybe reinstall and see what happens.

[Lembley42]

Attrition might be possible, yea, but you would have to put all your troops in some ♥♥♥♥♥♥-cold mountain province for that to happen so fast ^^

[DirtyClaw]

Originally posted by Lembley42:

Attrition might be possible, yea, but you would have to put all your troops in some ♥♥♥♥♥♥-cold mountain province for that to happen so fast ^^

well he said he lost 16 units in just 3 months. Cutting troop funding wouldn't deplete it that fast even at 0 pay the only thing that can drive it down that fast besides combat is attrition or a bug.

[Lembley42]

I'm not disagreeing :P

[Gudabeg]

It happens with Chile, you start with a 6 brigade limit which drops to 2 brigades within 10 years of the game start/when you declare war for the first time.