Local Militias event

[Kergan]

This event is really obnoxious - it's like, lose 5% army professionalism or get lots less manpower on top of -20% manpower recovery speed. Never mind the 25% fort defense, however useful it might be once in a while - it's just... roughly on par with if not worse than Comet.

 

[Efgrafich]

Huh, rather pointless, saw Jake himself exploiting this event by conserving mp with recruiting...

 

[Shinkuro Yukinari]

I mean, tis still free professionalism. And if you are expanding, surely you have Admin ideas, so Mercs are certainly an option

 

[I_am_Nemo]

The "no manpower for you!" events attached to professionalism are, in general, rather annoying, but that one is probably the worst. Frankly, I'd rather have comets any day.

It's not really free professionalism, as running out of/low on manpower means burning prof via either mercs or slackening. Getting that manpower back via slacken will cost 2x, maybe 4x as much prof as you gain. Also, if you're already at 100% prof, it's just a pure kick in the teeth either way - lose manpower for no gain, or lose professionalism (thus slower drilling and more expensive generals).

All in all, it makes trying to play a manpower-reliant game even harder than it already would be. That may be a good thing or a bad thing, based on your perspective, but it's certainly one more argument in favor of just using prof as a manpower generator, vs. actually sitting on it maxed out.

 

[Ironside121]

The event itself is fine.. but the fact that I got it once every 10 years for the first 100 years of the Burgundy game I'm playing really ticked me off. It takes too much manpower and is spammed at me. I may have got unlucky however.

 

[Shalazin]

These events really annoy me to no end. I think they are a bit too punishing manpower wise and occur a bit too often. They also make mercs even more attractive than they already are.

Playing a merc heavy game, the manpower hit doesn't matter and you get to increase army professionalism. If you're playing a game where you're not allowed to use mercs, (makes the game more fun imo) then this event is just awful.

Looking at the event files it looks like there are 4 events like this. One reduces manpower 25% of yearly value, one reduces manpower 15% of yearly value, and the other two reduce it by 20%. All have a mean time to happen of 500 months. So if you get unlucky and get two of these events in a row that's 40-50% manpower gone if you want that army professionalism.

One of the events is the "wargames" event which doesn't cause you to lose army professionalism if you refuse, just 5 prestige so it isn't nearly as annoying as the other 3.

In the end, these events just make me feel like I'm being punished for trying to rely on manpower.

 

[kakatua]

The event itself is fine.. but the fact that I got it once every 10 years for the first 100 years of the Burgundy game I'm playing really ticked me off. It takes too much manpower and is spammed at me. I may have got unlucky however.

Do you think you are unlucky? I had events about lack of payment of troops twice IN THE SAME WAR!

The game is now "Hey! I noticed you are at war. Do you mind lose half of your already low and insuficient manpower for no reason?"

 

[makaramus]

The event itself is fine.. but the fact that I got it once every 10 years for the first 100 years of the Burgundy game I'm playing really ticked me off. It takes too much manpower and is spammed at me. I may have got unlucky however.

why you care about prof. as burgundy? with low prof bonuses to mercs you can dominate everyone around you by merc spam as burgundy ideas

 

[Zohtun]

It's pretty awful that a lot of events which encourage use of manpower over mercs (ie raising professionalism) tend to ironically DIScourage use of manpower by crippling your manpower. It's a little counter-productive if the goal is to make us players stop using mercenaries and use manpower dangit.

 

[Ninaran]

They also seem to happen way too frequently to the point where they become a major nuisance, in my opinion.