Army Size

[unmerged(583)]

I have a thought and a comment regarding the sizes of the armies in the game. If you read anything about the period, for example 'Ofredsår' by Peter Englund, they never mention army the size you meet in EU. I played as England and conquered Holstein from the portugees (why he was there I have no idea. some years later I was attacked by a 100.000 men strong danish army. How is that posssible? how many lived in Denmark? That must have been all danish males. Anyway even more frustrating is the fact that the army had been in existens for a couple of years just standing on jylland, that is not historical correct.

Shouldn't there be a relationship between country size and army size?

 

[unmerged(597)]

I were thinking about this today to. Playing as sweden, i've seen that the Danish army had 93k men just standing there.

I'm currently in 1740, can recruit 250k units every year and have had more then 2 millions casualties... can that make sense? And in like Skane i can recruit +25000 men... i don't even think that Skane have more than 20000 people living there... a bit of mismatch. That recruit base might be right... i have like whole Central and Eastern Europe expect half france and Austria.

The game is one of the best i've ever played!! Good work!

 

[unmerged(583)]

maybe the recruit base also should function as a cap of army size?

 

[Carolus Rex]

The bigger your empire gets the more people
it has, right?
The better the times, the more people.
If you have a.... in Swedish, inskrivningscenter I think it is called,
you recruit from a bigger area than just, for example Skåne.
Ah Doesnt make much sense anyway.
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[tonhur]

You forget that before industrial revolution city population was only 5-20% of whole countries population and from there the draftees mostly come.

if town has population of 20000 the surrounding province has maybe 100000 or more people living there.

But yes EU's armies are massive compared to RL one's of that time. It would have been possible to temporarily draft such armies but to supply them and pay their wages would definitely bankrupted country's economy.

 

[unmerged(583)]

even if the sizes are right, I doubt that, the rules was GET THE ARMY MOVING, as they fed upon the surrounding. Just look how the ares in germany lokked after the thirty years war. with armies no bigger than 50000 if I remember right.

so the tendancy of the computer to have big armies idle is very strange

 

[unmerged(543)]

I agree, armies should automatically pillage the area, unless a _huge_ amount is paid, to supply the army with purchased supplies.