Reinforcement Problem

[unmerged(82265)]

First time I've played a nation where this happens, but I've noticed that my troops are reinforcing terribly slow in my Ottamans game. I get 7k a month, but they only reinforce at 4k a month, with army slider all the way up, and therefore my manpower never goes down, which frustrates me when I am running around with 5-20 unit stacks of 1,000 men and losing a war. What am I suppose to do?

It also seems slower to reinforce in enemy territory vs in vassal territory vs in my home lands. I can't rightly run swarms of troops back home from France, my WE will hit before they do much.

 

[Contiguous]

You regain 7,000 manpower a month? That seems unusual.

 

[unmerged(82265)]

You regain 7,000 manpower a month? That seems unusual.

Not at all. Any game where you have 200,000+ manpower you'd get that much. It is late game.

 

[Xara]

There is a limit to how fast stacks replenish, regardless of your manpower increase. And they do so much slower in hostile territory. A situation like this is when you hire a quartermaster.

-Armies which have taken casualties will gradually reinforce up to their full strength, provided there is available manpower. The base reinforcement rate is 10% per month.

-Reinforcement in foreign territory greatly depends on the maneuver rating of an attached leader.
- Every unit that needs to reinforce will cost double the normal maintenance in addition to its normal maintenance. This means that wars with high losses are very expensive and can easily ruin a country's economy.
-The amount of reinforcements that an army receives varies with the properties of the province.
-A quartermaster increases reinforcement speed by 33%

 

[Nobak]

Reinforcement is done regiment by regiment, so light losses to a bunch of regiments adding up to 10k will regenerate a lot faster than 10 regiments being completely drained to 0 men. I believe the base value is 100. I imagine there's modifiers such as reinforce speed and where the regiment is, but just having the manpower isn't enough for your army to instantly refill.

Edit: Well this turned out to add nothing that Xara didn't say.

 

[Ruanek]

First time I've played a nation where this happens, but I've noticed that my troops are reinforcing terribly slow in my Ottamans game. I get 7k a month, but they only reinforce at 4k a month, with army slider all the way up, and therefore my manpower never goes down, which frustrates me when I am running around with 5-20 unit stacks of 1,000 men and losing a war. What am I suppose to do?

It also seems slower to reinforce in enemy territory vs in vassal territory vs in my home lands. I can't rightly run swarms of troops back home from France, my WE will hit before they do much.

Of course you reinforce faster in your own territory versus vassals, and in their territory versus in enemy territory. That makes sense. Your troops are coming from your country to reinforce your armies, and they can do that a lot more easily if you aren't in enemy territory.

That may also be part of the reason your armies are reinforcing slowly. If they're all in enemy territory they'll reinforce slowly, as you noticed.

 

[Contiguous]

Not at all. Any game where you have 200,000+ manpower you'd get that much. It is late game.

Oh. I usually get bored by about 1700 and start up a new game.