So what exactly does being a autocratic government do then? King?

[King]

The reason you cannot do a Mao style great leap forward is because that happened in the 1950s not the 1850s.

 

[King]

Aww come on King, give in-game autocrats manual pop conversion! Please?

So that Russia can mobilise a huge army for the Crimean war which they historically found impossible to do?

 

[King]

Well the Russian army was 700,000 strong you know...

And I'm not saying converting pops to soldiers should be possible on as large a scale as the ruler wants. And it should be expensive, too. In any case, other restrictions are possible that simply making it completely impossible.

Who said anything about being completely impossible? I said you can influence through various way, one being your military slider, but there are others. This slightly different from ahistoric total control.

 

[King]

Total control who you draft into army is not ahistoric, opposite it is historic. There were always professions which were very valuable in the time of war - thus were not drafted (or drafted as last). Also, draft was often 'targeted' against specific cultural/professional/religion groups.

I said there were other ways. I think that should be your clue that perhaps there is a future developer diary about this.

 

[King]

And I said this what you said in your previous post was incorrect. This should give you a clue that maybe developers are NOT always right

I will give you this clue then on what we are thinking about. We are fully aware of that the Victoria system did not make the transistion from peace to total war very well. However we believe that using decisions we can do cool things that can get round this problem.

 

[King]

I belive you do. However what I do not belive is that any decision system will allow me to target specific POP. And I do think it should be an option, at least for non democratic coutries (perhaps with other limitations). Ok, nevermind, I'll wait for DD.

I really don't think so, did the Kaiser tell his government get me 20,000 fresh Polish troops from Posen, or did he say get me more men?

 

[King]

Please tell me that you are talking about reserve pools being dependent on mobilisation structures/decisions/technologies - eg, radical governments can make use of levee en masse while conservative autocracies have to wait for the likes of von Roon's Landwehr. After all the latter did mobilise a million men in 1870...

I am not sure what your question is.

 

[King]

Both of those comments share about the same logic,

If you are going to quote me don't dare edit my posts to promote your own agenda. This is absolutely unacceptable behavour.