there are no officers

[monicaida25]

When I build my barracks, this fills up quickly with no problem, but just when I'm at war, the barracks inevitably start to empty because I don't have any officers... any advice to remedy this problem?

[monicaida25]

Originally posted by -=COMMUNIST=-:

Are you building barracks in states with non-discriminated pops?

the problem is in my main state

[IreGaddr]

Originally posted by monicaida25:

Originally posted by -=COMMUNIST=-:

Are you building barracks in states with non-discriminated pops?

the problem is in my main state

Qualifications met? Enough Unis? Pop needs for officers? Those aren't you're average line men.

[monicaida25]

he was playing Cambodia and he was trying to invade Siam... I have the right tech to defeat him, but my barracks run out fast, however Siam's don't suffer from this problem, and I doubt Siam has much more qualifications than me

[monicaida25]

I'm paying even the maximum

[teron]

Do you have universities in the state since it boosts the rate that pops can be qualified for professions. You could also toss a promote social mobility on the state since that gives a literacy access and qualifications buff.

Plus having a bunch of pops sitting around (either peasants or unemployed for the barracks to draw on can help)

[monicaida25]

there are no mods, and actually there are ratings because i have a hundred thousand peasants on the subsistence farms and there are clerics on those farms, clerics that could be official...the game just doesn't want the qualified to become official...i tried place my army with irregulars without artillery thinking that the problem could be the cost of weapons, but no, it's the same problem

here some pictures

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2960411347

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2960411318

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2960411280

here instead my enemy Siam

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2960411233

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2960411196

[teron]

Spend some time before the war (likely from game start) with having promote social mobility on the state that has your barracks. Since the extra literacy access will make your pops more literate, which also means they will have an easier time qualifying for new jobs. It also gives a boost to qualification speed.

Same with having a university in that state since it makes it easier for pops to change professions when something better opens up.

The wiki does mention that adjacent jobs have an easier time qualifying, where it uses the example that machinists have an easier time becoming engineers. So it would mean that soldiers with a good literacy rate have an easier time becoming officers. Or just having a skilled population makes it easier for them to swap to better paying jobs.