Soldiers and combat losses

[ArneHD]

I read on the wiki that Soldier pops were reduced when you took combat losses, though only on higher difficulty levels. But it didn't specify what qualified as higher, and so I was left hanging a bit. Could someone go over this in a little bit more detail?

Edit: Oh and after searching the wiki, I still don't know what the higher difficulty levels actually do.

 

[OP13]

I read on the wiki that Soldier pops were reduced when you took combat losses, though only on higher difficulty levels. But it didn't specify what qualified as higher, and so I was left hanging a bit. Could someone go over this in a little bit more detail?

Edit: Oh and after searching the wiki, I still don't know what the higher difficulty levels actually do.

I think you start losing soldier POPs from the normal level.

 

[Delegate]

yea i've often wondered about that too. whether, your soldier pops that the units are built from in each province take casualties as the men in the field do.

 

[Zalder]

I think from normal level you lose one soldier for each soldier killed in combat.

 

[Eärendil]

And I think it's 4 for each soldier on the highest difficulty.

 

[Coinneach]

i found out the hard way, playing as Afghanistan when minorities went nuts - then all the minorities went away

so am i the only one who sent horde after horde of arabs into Prussia just to speed up the Francification of Algeria? :rofl:

 

[Meanmanturbo]

i found out the hard way, playing as Afghanistan when minorities went nuts - then all the minorities went away

so am i the only one who sent horde after horde of arabs into Prussia just to speed up the Francification of Algeria? :rofl:

One very good reason you can't promot minority soldiers, paradox are sensitive about that sort of thing...

 

[OHgamer]

One very good reason you can't promot minority soldiers, paradox are sensitive about that sort of thing...

Just to clarify - that was one of the reasons the new policy was introduced into Revolutions as part of the overhaul with what players could do with their POPs depending on their policies. In Pre-Revolutions versions of Victoria there are no limits to convert non-national POPs.