Manpower problem England.

[-MoRiDin-]

I'm playing pre AoW as England. I won the HYW and have jsut integrated France. To my horror adding France only added 15.. 15!! to my army force limits!

Help! I've noticed all of France has very high autonomy, like 75% so I've started to reduce this by 25% in all provs I have low rebel risk in a handful of prov but this didn't help raise the force limits at all and I thought it should have done?

Cosmopolitan is accepted and the others not but it will take a long time to convert them all to English. I haven't form GB yet should I do so will this help with any unaccepted cultures? (There is nothing left in England but English and Scottish which are both in the British group.)

I'm very confused, plus looking at changing cultures in some proves it wants 10-15 YEARS to do it (understandable but I need advice) I had hoped that once integrated I could go toe to toe with the other blobs (Austria, Scandinavia and Castile (soon to be Spain)) but I'm still behind in manpower and force limits...

Please Advise, the wiki page suggested reducing autonomy should have increased my force limits a lot! Also seems to suggest that culture doesn't do anything to force limit calc..

 

[durvas]

Integrating something starts it at 75% autonomy unless you had a core on it at some point. You probably have influence as well. Normal subject contribution to your force limits is 25% of their own, but 75% with Influence, so integrating them isn't a big jump. Integrating France is the right decision, but it will take time for the autonomy to rise enough. Make sure you have a newer form of government as those reduce autonomy monthly.

 

[-MoRiDin-]

Hmm I didn't think PUs added to your manpower, only Vassals?

How do I change government?

 

[Dracolithfiend]

Time will fix it. Yes you might need to wait 30 years but it will be worth it.

 

[-MoRiDin-]

Time will fix it. Yes you might need to wait 30 years but it will be worth it.

WEll it's only been what 130 since I won the war!

 

[-MoRiDin-]

Should I bother with trying to convert non-accepted cultures? Or use the Diplo power for tech and ideas?

 

[Incompetent]

Should I bother with trying to convert non-accepted cultures?

In general, no. Maybe convert some very poor/minor cultures (Norman? Welsh?) if you have a glut of diplo points, but certainly don't try to convert big blobs of culture like Burgundian or Occitain. If you want to increase the area over which you have accepted culture, get Humanism (works great for England due to its -20% culture threshold tradition).