Grosshaus said:
Playing as France I found myself in the inalian unification wars against Austria. Me and SP took a good deal of Austria, inclucing all the provinces Italy should claim. The war bogged down just short of Wien and I had high WE since I had been fighting the Dutch when this war started and I felt there really should be an event to end this war I decided to use the neville cheat. Since I couldn't ask for provinces for my ally (Oddly I wasn't the alliance leader despite having the highest prestiege) so I thought forcing their disarmerment would let SP take the capital and end the war theirselfs. However, their total number of divs never changed and SP got crushed
Perhaps forced disarmerment only affects the total number of divs they CAN have and not the number they do have. By this I mean the number you see when you hover the mouse over the manpower icon. But this number is fairly high, I can have 97 french divs but I only have around 30, so lovering this by 10 or something woundn't really affect me much.