Manpower question

[unmerged(1949)]

It is around 632 and Rome seemingly has manpower shortage in time of peace. I finished a long war with Carthage and now control most of Gaul, half of Greece, Scilly, and a third of Spain. My armys all refilled after the war and are located in proviences that cover their supply needs. I have money. Yet I cannot generate any new men for the manpower pool. Years go by, I retire over 50K of soldiers, who are added to the manpower pool, but shrink until till the manpower pool is zero again? The pool says I need 12K to fill my army, but they are all full! Worse still is the 12K figure doesn't change year, after year, after year. I have added vast new lands, but they must not have any people in them and Rome itself must be devoid of people. Am I going to have to teach the Gauls, Romans, Greeks and Spanish how to have sex and produce good little soldiers?

 

[Mad Max]

You probably have a number of units suffering from attrition in some province(s).

 

[Fleisch Wanze]

-Only roman culture provinces add fully to the manpowerpool, roman related cultures get a 80% handicap and totally "foreign" cultures add nothing.

btw.: Damn is the forum overloaded...

 

[StephenT]

Do you have an army of 24 cohorts sitting out at sea on board a fleet somewhere, that you've forgotten about? Or in enemy territory more than one province away from your borders?

 

[JakethX]

start passing out the viagra to the civilions and give your a troops a pass to Las Vegas for the weekend

 

[Hajji]

converting the culture in your provinces is the long term solution to increase your manpower base. Also make sure that you are trading for the grain, and I did in one of my games, switch the national idea to work the slaves to freeman, to increase the amount of freeman that are recruited for the army, (henice manpower) but the stability hits were devastating and then switching them back for the Research was just the wrong thing again. by then I had to abandon game... (yeah everyone has a first game..._)