Building an army

[Shau]

Are there any tips?

The baracks generate units at snail speed. The conscription camps seem to do nothing. I waited for years to get about 27k units in korea. Then I assaulted an african province having 8+8. It should have been a decisive victory (fleet supported more than 30 units). I also hit the recuit button that are supposed to enable the consciption camps. Except they didn't. Thankfully, I've had these regular soldiers. So I attacked.
1) 27k vs 13k
wth?!!
2) 16k vs 10k
...

I've managed to win (barely), however, I don't really how to build up a decent army. Even a small country like maroko has 36+30 and is therefore invincible. I have x7 GDP and x7 people, but only something like 60+40. While the +40 aren't even working and most armies are not at 100% manpower.

What makes it even worse is that 5 weeks after conquering the land, the conquered land gets mad at me and declares war again recruiting 10k out of nowhere. Is it possible to prevent that revolution 5 months later? It sucks getting attrition twice and almost losing 2 armies that will need years to recover.

And what army compositions are good? Cannons seem to have the best offesive values.

[6ap6apblckaAa]

Lots of questions here.
1. Barracks not recruiting - most likely a qualifications problem - check officers.
2. Naval invasions have large penalty until "landing craft" tech.
3. Not happy with a battle - need all the screen shots of army and battle start.
4. Secessions - just delete battallions from conquered states beforehand.
5. Good composition: attack stack has 50% irregulars and 50% best cannons, defense stacks have 100% best infantry. Never use cavalry. Have some outdated stacks for small wars.

[endymionologist]

There doesn't seem to be anything in the game that tutorializes the worker rankings, and how they affect hiring. For all buildings, including conscription centers, the lowest-level of employee ('laborer', usually) can only hire up to the % that all of the higher levels are hired to.
In your specific case, literacy in Korea at the start of the game is too low to support the number of officers you need for a gunpowder army.
As for the naval invasion, battles in V3 don't usually use all of both sides' forces; a portion of the troops are left in reserve to rest or look for other fights. A numbers advantage only really becomes decisive in a sequence of multiple battles, as in this case where you went into the second battle of the naval invasion with most of your men in full formations and your enemy had only retreated survivors of the first fight.
And yes, the seceding province didn't recruit those troops "out of nowhere." I'm sorry, but *you* recruited those troops, paying for them and their gear out of your national budget, probably even maxing out your military pay rate to try to get them to muster faster.

[Shau]

Thanks for the reply. So if literacy is such a big deal, how can I increase it? I mean, you can't study at universities if you can't read, can you? I ddn't see any laws encouraging literacy popping up and there are no elementary schools as far as I can tell.

[6ap6apblckaAa]

Literacy is increased by the increasing educations access using education laws. So you pass Charity or Public schools, increase it to at least level 2 and wait.

But judging by the questions you have asked so far, you are probably only starting to learn the game. In this case I strongly recommend you to abandon Korea run, as this is a pretty hard country even for experienced players.
Start with France, Austria, Spain or Sweden, where you will be able to learn the game without many hard problems including artificial bugs.

[Shau]

Wow. I don't know why you are so biased vs Korea. I've been in South Korea for holiday. It's a nice country. I've already finished the 100 years of Korea and I got independant at year 102 when China finally attacked Ming. I sacrificed a state in order to let britain help me. China resigned from war and I lost a state even though the war was canceled.

How am I supposed to learn how literacy works if I play a country having high literacy? Doesn't that imply that I don't have to care about it and it will work without doing anything? How does that teach me anything but inefficient play? I wouldn't even notice if I'd waste potential.

I'm not yet sure about my next country. I don't really like to start with the strongest nation, as it will make growing boring. Tough france is also a nice country to visit.

This would leave Austria, Spain and Sweden from your list. Swedish empire? I don't have any connections to Sweden (even though I've been to Göteborg once), so it's not that tempting to play. Plus Sweden is not that densely populated.

Austria used to be a major power in europe. I don't really see how Austria could expand. Spain used to be a major oversea civilization. But that was before 1736. So maybe the next goal could be reestablishing oversea power. Though that probably means fighting big players often. I don't think it's fun to fight france having 1000 armies why the second strongest nation has 500 armies. Maybe I'll try Spain next. But I don't promise anything.