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I think previous threads have said that you would want roughly 50:50 inf and art, except that you don't want your cannons to have to fight on the front lines so slightly more infantry is better (maybe 3:2 ratio). Cav is only useful for moving diagonally in battle, so never have more than 4. Later on they are even less useful. Only include engineers if you can afford the manpower, and only 1 per group is necessary. Gaurds are probably not worth the cost unless you are short on national pops or rolling in cash.
 
Hello, I have few questions, sorry if it was previously explain somewhere.
It's about the army composition. What is a good ratio between infantry/mounted and canon? Is there an advantage to mix the kind of troop or I should just go with the strongest unit (ex Dragon vs the other mounted unit?)
I am playing Japan in my game and I have to face huge Chinese stack (last time they send several armies of 133 000 men, one was even 259 000 !) There is no penalty for stacking other than province attrition ? How can I face that kind of army, even with a tech advantage I don't think I can face a 1vs5 ratio...

many thanks !

Remember if China hasn't westernized yet these stacks are almost ALL irregulars. I engage 120k stacks with 24k stacks and just melt the Chinese.

My standard stack is 24k/30k:

2 Cavarly or Hussars or Airplanes (based on tech)
2 Artillery
4 Infantry / Guards (I use guards when I can BECAUSE they cost a lot more to maintain and thus higher mil score and demand on lux clothes etc)
+2 Tanks after invention

I can split the stack in half and still have a good recon unit for quick occupation and the stack is 12-15k so when in occupation mode (supply limit x 2) most non-African areas I don't take attrition. In European wars I take a little more casualties in large battles (especially early on in a war) due to high levels of recon units but because my units are small and modular I can easily lure countries like France into HUGE 250k+ army battles and then surround them, destroying the whole stack. (Rotating in / out units as they get weakened, except my best commander's unit)
 
Its been a while since i played the game and i have never played AHD before. I'm playing as poland (started with just the russian cores), i have all the austrian cores and one of the polish states in prussia (working on the rest). Afterwards i fully intend to try and create Poland-Lithuania. However i've noticed theres a rebel group forming (with 3 brigades) called poland-lithuania pan-nationalists. If these guys revolted and i let them win, would i be right in saying that i'd convert to P-L with all its claims? Is this even a good idea? What causes pan-nationalists to form?
 
What's a good way to get social reforms (more specifically: Healthcare and less importantly education) ASAP? If it matters, I'm playing Prussia. I'd like to get my population to increase as quickly as possible, but I'm not sure how to achieve this. Also, is it possible to get immigration as Prussia? At all? I don't think I've ever achieved immigration, though in one of my games France was getting a lot of it so I guess it is possible as Europe.
 
Hello, I have few questions, sorry if it was previously explain somewhere.
It's about the army composition. What is a good ratio between infantry/mounted and canon? Is there an advantage to mix the kind of troop or I should just go with the strongest unit (ex Dragon vs the other mounted unit?)
I am playing Japan in my game and I have to face huge Chinese stack (last time they send several armies of 133 000 men, one was even 259 000 !) There is no penalty for stacking other than province attrition ? How can I face that kind of army, even with a tech advantage I don't think I can face a 1vs5 ratio...

many thanks !
Chinese armies are extremely backwards, as Russia I once had a 50 stack against a 700 stack Chinese army. Their entire army was destroyed

Considering 3000 men per stack, that's 2.1 million dead in one relatively quick battle
 
What's a good way to get social reforms (more specifically: Healthcare and less importantly education) ASAP? If it matters, I'm playing Prussia. I'd like to get my population to increase as quickly as possible, but I'm not sure how to achieve this. Also, is it possible to get immigration as Prussia? At all? I don't think I've ever achieved immigration, though in one of my games France was getting a lot of it so I guess it is possible as Europe.

To pass social reforms you need socialists in your upper house (i can't remember if conservative/liberals are effected by movements the same way as for political reforms), specific types of popes are more likely to become socialist at higher consciousness levels. Increasing the proportion of craftsmen and increasing there consciousness is probably the best way to do so, but it will take time. Don't rely on immigrants, you only really have a chance of receiving some from europe, but they are most likely to go abroad than to another european country.

edit: i believe conservatives and liberals will pass social reforms only when there are large movements backing them. Socialists, communists and fascists will always pass social reforms. Anarcho-liberals and reactionaries will never pass them. As you get later into the game and industrialization, consciousness and militancy increases you'll find the social reform passing ideologies will get more common
 
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CRASH CEASH CRASH!!!!!!!!!!

When i load a game during the first change of date th game goes in crash!!!
I cant play the game because i cant finish one !!!
I have tried evrything !!!!

ideas????
 
CRASH CEASH CRASH!!!!!!!!!!

When i load a game during the first change of date th game goes in crash!!!
I cant play the game because i cant finish one !!!
I have tried evrything !!!!

ideas????

Post in the tech support thread; you'll get answers faster there.
 
Has anyone managed to get a Communist revolution as Russia without losing a war?

I've tried closing all my factories, raising taxes all the way, and disbanding most of my army, but all I get are reactionaries and nationalists.
I only have one reform so I'm puzzled that there are reactionaries.

I should add that there are communist rebels in the rebel screen, but they aren't strong/popular enough and don't revolt
 
Has anyone managed to get a Communist revolution as Russia without losing a war?

I've tried closing all my factories, raising taxes all the way, and disbanding most of my army, but all I get are reactionaries and nationalists.
I only have one reform so I'm puzzled that there are reactionaries.

I should add that there are communist rebels in the rebel screen, but they aren't strong/popular enough and don't revolt
Use your NF to build Commie support?
 
thanks guys for the reponse.

I have another one :D

As a great power (no 5) should I get involved in a great war? In my game England+Italy (and a whole bunch of secondary powers) are fighting France and Russia. I can join the war on France side (leader). I fell that actually France can win a war for once :D I am not in alliance with them but have enough good relation to be involve in this great war. I would like to decrease the sphere of influence of England in the south east asia... Can I do that or the benefice of the victory will be only for France ?
 
thanks guys for the reponse.

I have another one :D

As a great power (no 5) should I get involved in a great war? In my game England+Italy (and a whole bunch of secondary powers) are fighting France and Russia. I can join the war on France side (leader). I fell that actually France can win a war for once :D I am not in alliance with them but have enough good relation to be involve in this great war. I would like to decrease the sphere of influence of England in the south east asia... Can I do that or the benefice of the victory will be only for France ?
Depends on the outcome of the war. You will probably contract a debt by entering the war and it may give you some prestige. It's really up to you, but no thing is guaranteed and if you are playing vanilla consider the AI will probably white peace.
 
thanks guys for the reponse.

I have another one :D

As a great power (no 5) should I get involved in a great war? In my game England+Italy (and a whole bunch of secondary powers) are fighting France and Russia. I can join the war on France side (leader). I fell that actually France can win a war for once :D I am not in alliance with them but have enough good relation to be involve in this great war. I would like to decrease the sphere of influence of England in the south east asia... Can I do that or the benefice of the victory will be only for France ?

What will almost certainly happen is france will win the war on the continent and britain will win the war at sea. France will occupy all of italy but it probably won't effect the UK enough for them to get their war goals (unless you are lucky). So the war will drag on for a long time before white peace. Italy will probably have a revolution and be bumped down 20 places in the world rankings. The only way you could alter this is if you (i'm assuming you're germany) have enough of a navy or otherwise have access to british overseas territories in india and africa to drive up warscore.
 
Does anyone know what rebels called 'white army' or 'national guard' (or something similar) correspond too? They occurred in two separate waves while the whole world was occupying prussia.

Any other rebel army titles i should know?

White Guards are reactionaries. Red Guards are Communist. Republican Guards are Jacobins (and I think Socialists) Black Shirts are Fascists.
 
White Guards are reactionaries. Red Guards are Communist. Republican Guards are Jacobins (and I think Socialists) Black Shirts are Fascists.

That makes a lot of sense, thanks. Sounds like they had maybe a reactionary revolt followed by a jacobin revolt...i wonder if they would have fought each other given the chance?

My polish-lithuanian pan-nationalists where called something like 'young polish-lithuanians'. I assume thats a generic tag as well, except for the red shirts.
 
Use your NF to build Commie support?

Am doing so.

This is baffling. There are 90 million supporters of the communist rebels, 100% revolt chance, over 3000 brigades ready to join... and still no revolution in about 10 years. My army is almost gone - I accepted two containments. Could it be the 38 organisation?

Does my current ruling party have any effect? I have Prussian Constitutionalism, so I can't appoint any of the radical parties. But would a certain type of party increase the amount of communists?
 
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Does my current ruling party have any effect? I have Prussian Constitutionalism, so I can't appoint any of the radical parties. But would a certain type of party increase the amount of communists?
Appoint reactionaries, use your money to buy up a stockpile. After your stockpile is big enough, sell all these goods to your pops. Also pull tariffs to the maximum.
Declare some wars and white peace (failing a wargoal gives militancy).
 
Appoint reactionaries, use your money to buy up a stockpile. After your stockpile is big enough, sell all these goods to your pops. Also pull tariffs to the maximum.
Declare some wars and white peace (failing a wargoal gives militancy).
Thanks. What exactly does the selling goods to population do? And how do I sell goods to the population?

110 million communist supporters, 100% revolt risk, 94% of middle class getting none of their needs, 10 militancy everywhere, all of my NF are increasing communist support... if I don't get a revolution at this stage, something is wrong.

...After years, still no communist revolt. There have been many other revolts with less support, organisation, and brigades, but no communists
 
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Hi all, I just bought Victoria Gold, but after installing it only Vic1 runs well, Vic2 doesnt. When i run it the game starts to load, but then crashes and it says v2game.exe operation stops. I tried running it as administrator and in different compabilities, but it still isn't working. Can someone help me with this?