I'm confused about troop replenishment

[Northernwwater]

Once a regiment takes loses I'm Confused about how it receives troop replenishment. It never seems to restock the troops. I went into the console and gave myself endless money and manually bought needed troop goods on the market, but I see no movement.

Clearly there is something I don't understand here. Exactly what are the factors I need to influence to gain replenishment of my existing regiments?

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

Once a regiment takes loses I'm Confused about how it receives troop replenishment. It never seems to restock the troops. I went into the console and gave myself endless money and manually bought needed troop goods on the market, but I see no movement.

Clearly there is something I don't understand here. Exactly what are the factors I need to influence to gain replenishment of my existing regiments?

They are still POPs and if no pop wants to become soldiers, then the units don't replenish.
I guess you should check out the conditions the potential POPs are under and what they prefer to promote or demote into.
At least that's how i remember it.

In case you're new to POPs, see also:
https://vic2.paradoxwikis.com/Promotion

 

[Northernwwater]

Thanks. I am new to the game.

I was able to create new troops. So I can disband the regiments that won't replenish and just replace them with new ones.

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

Thanks. I am new to the game.

I was able to create new troops. So I can disband the regiments that won't replenish and just replace them with new ones.

That's what i usually do as well if the soldier POP is too low and not growing fast enough.

Check the province a unit is from to see how many demote or promote or f the change is positive.

Also check the number in the Build Army window. 1k supports one unit.
If possible i only build a unit from a province if there is 0.5 more than i want to hire, so there is enough left for the first replacements.

 

[Northernwwater]

Thanks!

 

[arandomperson123454]

Also, if there are over 1000 people left in the pop, do you need land stockpile at a certain level to reinforce? What level?

 

[Northernwwater]

Also, if there are over 1000 people left in the pop, do you need land stockpile at a certain level to reinforce? What level?

What is land stockpile? Like I said I'm new to the game.

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

Also, if there are over 1000 people left in the pop, do you need land stockpile at a certain level to reinforce? What level?

Not sure i understand. Please rephrase.

Sure you need goods/supplies to reinforce units, depending on what a specific unit requires, based on when you build it.
Hard to calculate.

edit: yeah if you refer to the budget for the National Stockpile , then it obviously depends on how much stuff costs
and how much money you can spend..

@Northernwwater
The stockpile is in the trade tab, for army supplies mostly, assuming you got both expansions.
Not sure what the poster refers to though..oh...likely the National Stockpile budget...automatic buying for it..
I always buy enough manually.


https://vic2.paradoxwikis.com/Budget#National_stockpile

After looking up "Trade" i realise that i had forgotten how bad the game and the Wiki are at explaining the tabs in the game
and instead of explaining it straightforward they make it an overcomplicated nerdfest....*shakes head*

 

[ShadeThorn]

To replenish your army, you want a few army leadership techs, Psychology techs, good pay, and a level of taxation that steers them towards that occupation.
When you tax your pops, pay attention to the colour pie. if it's dark blue to sky blue you then your pops should be promoting. if you go to population and check the tooltip you can see what your pops are promoting and demoting to, so you can check this to see if your soldiers are turning into farmers.

 

[Northernwwater]

Thanks, I understand the mechanic much better now. I'm learning that in this game you affect things more indirectly than in something like EU4.

 

[Kovax]

You can also use a National Focus in a region where you want more soldiers, although there are usually a lot of better things to do with a NF point, like promoting Clerics, Craftsmen, or Clerks.

Unfortunately, brigades are drawn from a single POP, so you can end up with both Catholic and Protestant soldier pops in some provinces, and not enough of either to form a brigade. As people convert, assimilate, change jobs, and otherwise migrate from one Pop to another, your brigades sometimes get left without enough manpower to refill them, and you can either run them half-full, or disband them and create a new one from a different Pop.

 

[Northernwwater]

This behavior is strange. You'd think you could merge brigades.

 

[Kovax]

I'd much rather see them merge Pops of different religions, and then specify how many members of each religion are in that pop. That way, you could build a brigade consisting of multiple religions, and then casualties would be taken proportionally. I believe it was customary at the time in many countries to recruit brigades from a specific town or group of villages, but I can't think of any examples of segregating units by religion on the brigade level....by company or platoon perhaps, but not at higher organizational levels.

 

[ShadeThorn]

yeah. and that's why victoria 2 is harder than EU4

 

[Northernwwater]

My guess is it's harder because it is more of a blackbox. I hardly see a formula one in the victoria 2 wiki, but EU4 has a much richer wiki with descriptions that allow you to understand how it works. Really, the trade page for vic2 is comical it's so sparse given the complexity of trade in vic2.

 

[ShadeThorn]

Thing is, in Victoria you are managing a modern population. You can't make them do things by decree or coercion. You gotta persuade them to fall inline with your reforms.

Other thing that makes it hard is that vic2 is old and neglected.

another tip I just recalled for better troop replenishment is to promote officers. with a healthy officer pop, people are more likely to sign up be soldiers.

 

[Northernwwater]

Thing is, in Victoria you are managing a modern population. You can't make them do things by decree or coercion. You gotta persuade them to fall inline with your reforms.

Other thing that makes it hard is that vic2 is old and neglected.

another tip I just recalled for better troop replenishment is to promote officers. with a healthy officer pop, people are more likely to sign up be soldiers.

I want to like this game so bad, because it is exactly the kind of game I like to play.