Forced disarmament?

[Dyranum]

What does the forced disarmament peace option do?
Every time that I pick it, it doesn't do anything at all.
Sorry, if it's something that should be obvious but, it for me atleast, it has no effect.

 

[TheDoctor987]

I think it gets rid of the countries reserves.

 

[Dyranum]

Does it?
That ain't really helpful, units tend to be deployed during a war.

 

[henryjai]

If you could annihilate all units they have, this is equivalent to get rid of all of their reserves. So basically a useless thing to have.

 

[Dyranum]

If you could annihilate all units they have, this is equivalent to get rid of all of their reserves. So basically a useless thing to have.

So, that just makes it completely useless!
It always tend to be...their army is alive but most of their country occupied or their whole army annhiliated.

 

[unmerged(174602)]

Well i never used it before, but i would have thought it eliminated the total reserve. As in, reset your max. reserve battalions to nil.

This way it would take quite some time for them to rebuild their reserve and this could significantly weaken them for a number of years.

 

[Alyosha]

I've never seen the AI build up reserves though (apart from what they start with). Unfortunately I think it's a broken feature.

It wold be nice to see the AI build reserves up to a certain level - that may reduce their need for building a standing army (which it doesn't pay for anyway, one of my major pet peeves).

 

[pizza de oveja]

IMHO a few aspects in victoria seem to have been like, introduced in the planning fase, named there in the game to be worked at a latter time and then somehow they never really got implemented, but shockingly enough being left there and not just in the final release, but also after numerous patches and an expansion!

Forced disarmament seems to be one of them, but the most notorious one IMHO is having infinite range ships combined with the existance of coal stations and colonization based on range and level from your port (which it does not do anything, it deppends on having an adjacent province and the required life rating that is given by your current tech).

Luckily the great qualities of vic somehow shadow things like these but it is, at least in this case sad, as coal supply conditioned the range of fleets, and it was historically crucial for planing and whole campaings, like the russo-japanese war.

Perhaps it was intended for it to cripple the mobilization pool of that country, but as someone said you will probably already have destroyed that countries army already so...