MPU's

[RadenTMT]

Hello, so i have a "simple" question about the mpu system and i hope the answer is gonna be simple aswell. From the beggining of a game i like to upgrade my city/towns and basically max everything i can while reserching new stuff and after that my plan is to start taking new land, but here is the problem when i almost done with upgrading most of the stuff (in the middle of machine age) i want to grow my army bigger but i dont have any mpus left so i was wondering if there is a way to get more mpu in a faster way for recruitment? Thank you

[rmgiv]

MPU's are resources that act as a restraint to growth. They will multiply faster when there are more "on the farm", meaning not recruited to factories and military.

The simple answer is: conquer some regions to fill your divisions more quickly.

[RadenTMT]

Originally posted by rmgiv:

MPU's are resources that act as a restraint to growth. They will multiply faster when there are more "on the farm", meaning not recruited to factories and military.

The simple answer is: conquer some regions to fill your divisions more quickly.

so i have to stop production to free some mpu's or? and plus my army is too small to conquer neighbouring lands.

[rmgiv]

Maybe. Sometimes it's a choice between economic strength and military power? Who are you playing?

[RadenTMT]

Im with Yugoslavia and like my resources are stable even if i shutdown most of the factories(only metal works are producing howitzers and thats all plus thank you for the help

[Sagara Sousuke]

I have a question as well.

If i build food factories like canneries, which uses MPU of the region, am i reducing the farming output as consequence?

[rmgiv]

Farms use the region MPUs to calculate the Food output. So yes, this would reduce MPUs. But food factories produce more Food and the lost farm MPUs will regenerate.

[Sagara Sousuke]

I was thinking how the game manages MPU, and i think there is a problem with Military manpower MPU.

In real life, it was a common strategy to use prisoners as national military manpower or industry (in-game MPU).
But on the game you can't transfer the MPU of a region to another.

I think for recruiting units, it should use a national wide MPU and not the region's MPU.

[rmgiv]

The MPUs recruit from national pools, i.e German, Bavarian. They do not always recruit from the region where the recruitment facility is located.

[Sagara Sousuke]

Ah, thanks

[dtodd33]

I thought building Hospitals , then Medical Buildings add 5 / 10 MPU per city as well

[rmgiv]

Hospitals and Medical Buildings increase your population growth rate.