For those of you thinking certain powers need more Manpower I refer you to the Manpower thread, where we discuss what we did to arrive at the numbers we did.
I didn't just pull those numbers out of my proverbial ass. I started with population numbers from a 1913 encyclopedia (from Mr. Elisson's collection), then used a scale (the top percentage is based on information on drafting by the CIA) based on how strong the respective power's economy was (with special considerations for colonies, particulary DEI and India. China also had a special case.).
For example Germany historically had 13.4 million men (courtesy StephenT) in the military in WWI. The numbers I arrived at are about 17 million (now this does take in account a possible extra six years of war), but if you discount those six years it comes out to be about it comes out to be just shy of 14 million. Now considering Germany was scraping the barrel in 1918 for men an extra 500,000 is not to out of the question.
Now I am open to changes if a good historical basis can be found to change them (i.e. mulitple sources that roughly confirm your proposal); what I will not except is "I ran out of manpower so you should give more" argument.
There I have spoken,
Shadow Knight member of the TGW team, leader of Manpower, IC, and Resources
as have my lieutenant ptah54
I didn't just pull those numbers out of my proverbial ass. I started with population numbers from a 1913 encyclopedia (from Mr. Elisson's collection), then used a scale (the top percentage is based on information on drafting by the CIA) based on how strong the respective power's economy was (with special considerations for colonies, particulary DEI and India. China also had a special case.).
For example Germany historically had 13.4 million men (courtesy StephenT) in the military in WWI. The numbers I arrived at are about 17 million (now this does take in account a possible extra six years of war), but if you discount those six years it comes out to be about it comes out to be just shy of 14 million. Now considering Germany was scraping the barrel in 1918 for men an extra 500,000 is not to out of the question.
Now I am open to changes if a good historical basis can be found to change them (i.e. mulitple sources that roughly confirm your proposal); what I will not except is "I ran out of manpower so you should give more" argument.
There I have spoken,
Shadow Knight member of the TGW team, leader of Manpower, IC, and Resources
as have my lieutenant ptah54