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I tested some time ago to increase max attrition with 5 in provinces with Scorched Earth. Made it into a killer. 
IMO, everything with attrition should be looked at and made into more of a determining factor. Totally looted provinces should be a "no go" for large armies, for example. But that requires an AI that actually thinks about attrition.
Not to mention that the game would favour a defensive approach too much (it already does), so we definitely need a mechanic where development gets destroyed in ravaged provinces. So if you avoid combat and let the enemy bleed himself to death from attrition, your country should be left in ruins in the process.
The point is, the whole attrition part of the game should be revised from the top.
IMO, everything with attrition should be looked at and made into more of a determining factor. Totally looted provinces should be a "no go" for large armies, for example. But that requires an AI that actually thinks about attrition.
Not to mention that the game would favour a defensive approach too much (it already does), so we definitely need a mechanic where development gets destroyed in ravaged provinces. So if you avoid combat and let the enemy bleed himself to death from attrition, your country should be left in ruins in the process.
The point is, the whole attrition part of the game should be revised from the top.
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Well put. Modding attrition higher is problematic because AI is quite stupid in handling it.
But to the original post: Did you check what happened to your enemy's manpower? If you did (the simplest way is through console command aiview), maybe you'd be surprised to see that it has been depleted significantly, even close to 0%.
But to the original post: Did you check what happened to your enemy's manpower? If you did (the simplest way is through console command aiview), maybe you'd be surprised to see that it has been depleted significantly, even close to 0%.
I tested some time ago to increase max attrition with 5 in provinces with Scorched Earth. Made it into a killer.
IMO, everything with attrition should be looked at and made into more of a determining factor. Totally looted provinces should be a "no go" for large armies, for example. But that requires an AI that actually thinks about attrition.
Not to mention that the game would favour a defensive approach too much (it already does), so we definitely need a mechanic where development gets destroyed in ravaged provinces. So if you avoid combat and let the enemy bleed himself to death from attrition, your country should be left in ruins in the process.
The point is, the whole attrition part of the game should be revised from the top.
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I tested some time ago to increase max attrition with 5 in provinces with Scorched Earth. Made it into a killer.
IMO, everything with attrition should be looked at and made into more of a determining factor. Totally looted provinces should be a "no go" for large armies, for example. But that requires an AI that actually thinks about attrition.
... Yeah, but then all sieges would be hell unless the fort provinces were super high development for some reason.
Didn't you use winter attrition? Should get more than 5% then. I don't agree that you should win every defensive war against a superior foe, even as Russia, just by attrition...