Land Force Limits

[aknott]

In my current game I'm playing Sweden and my main issue is low land force limits, especially vs. a growing Prussia to my East. What are the best ways to increase my land force limits? Can anyone explain the relationship between provincial manpower and land force limits?

 

[thawitchking]

if you go above the force limit it cost more to maintain an army. i don't know to increase sorry

 

[DanubianCossak]

Relationship between provincial manpower and lfl (land force limit from now on) - none.

Lfl primarily depends on number of provinces, biggest gain youll notice is from acquiring new provinces.

Secondary lfl bonus comes base tax.

And terciary comes from tax income.

Number created by this 1.) number of provinces 2.) base tax in provinces 3.) tax income, is then multiplied by lfl modifiers (such as national idea, sliders etc) and then you get the final number.

To answer your first question, how to increase the number:

a.) grow bigger (more provinces, regardless of base tax, thats the biggest multiplier on base lfl from what i can tell)
b.) improve provincial base tax - well you cant do this directly, but you can go innovative which will trigger agricultural reforms event that gives +1 base tax more often
c.) get more tax income in your provinces - this one is a bit tricky. Basically there are 2 ways to get them from buildings and from having a center of trade (CoT itself should give a minor tax income, i think it was 2) but for every 100 worth of trade it will add additional +2 tax income, so if you get a wealthy CoT (2000+) your land force limit can get very high, even if you have only a few provinces.

 

[TAMBOURINESNAKE]

All of your base tax and flat tax bonuses (workshop, CoT, Natoinal Focus) are added together. 25% of that value constitutes your base land force limit, which is then multiplied by things like Grand Army, etc. Thus, the easiest way would be to expand, adding high base tax provinces and CoTs (even small ones!).

However, another thing added in Divine Wind is an increase in force limits based on vassals: you gain half of your vassals' force limits as your own, meaning a vassal with a force limit of 10 will increase yours by 5.

 

[aknott]

Thanks everyone, that helps a lot. In searching around a little more it also looks like there is an adviser and a couple of buildings that can help a little with land force limits.

 

[Uebergold]

Btw, they are only important in early game/early-midgame , later on when you are rich you can easily exceed them without the fear of crippling your economy too much.

 

[miotas]

6th level land buildings, unlocked at land tech 27, are an excellent way to increase force limits. The whole land building line in general are powerful buildings, since they lower the costs and maintenance of units recruited in those provinces, meaning you can support more men and go over force limits with less penalty. There is also the Grand Army national idea that increases force limits by 33%, and there is an idea unlocked at land tech 30 that lowers unit costs and means you can support more men.