Germanic Prepared Invasions, No troops?

[redmoretrout]

Why is it sometimes when you prepare an invasion literally no troops will appear, and other times you'll get 10,000 or more. It doesn't seem random, as results seem fairly consistent after saving and loading. The game seems to have a mechanic to decide this, and I'm just curious what the reasoning is.

 

[Hannibal_M]

You mean, troops from your demesne, or your vassals'? Assuming the former, many things affect how many troops you get.

• Capacity. Was the green bar under the army icon in the province window full? f not, the regiment was not at full capacity. Regiments lose soldiers after a battle, so if you disbanded a regiment after it lost some men, the next time you mobilize it it may not be full yet. Also regiments disbanded outside your territory take awhile to recover.Some province improvements like training grounds increase recruitment speed.
• Support. Provincial income and improvements affect how many units that province can support. A richer province will support a large regiment, then if it changes to struggling it will be lower, and then if it is struck with disease, its support will be much lower. A high stewardship increases income, so if you just changed your steward from a genius to an idiot, it will affect troop support too. Castles, training grounds, templar houses etc. increase number of troops supported.
• Loyalty. Each class (peasants, burghers, clergy and nobles) provides some type of units to your regiment, more if their loyalty is high. A random event or a revolt may change their loyalty, making that class provide less troops.
• Laws. Some laws make classes provide more troops, for example regal supremacy makes clergy provide troops and gold, while under church supremacy clergy provides nothing. Feudal contract favors heavy troops, and traditional law favors light troops. Check their descriptions.

Those are the ones that come to mind. There must be others, this is just an example of how things affect regiment size.