*DISCLAIMER*
THIS HAS NOT BEEN WRITTEN AND SHOULD THEREFORE NOT BEEN READ AS A WAY TO GET RID OF "UNWANTED" POPS. ANY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS GOING DOWN THAT PATH ARE AGAINST THE FORUM RULES.
*END OF DISCLAIMER*
I was looking for a way to overcome this game limitation, when I realized that the "mobilize" button can be quite handy to fill up your manpower pool, especially under "residence" policy. Maybe some of you already know this cheap exploit; for those who don't, here is a way to draft non accepted cultures massively into the army.
Let's say you play Oranje, and didn't manage to trigger the immigration flood - and yet you want to beat the UK. Buying weapons on loans is possible, but how about manpower ? Well, first of all, you need a (even minimal) mobilization pool - the starting 2 is good enough. While pausing the game, choose a heavily populated province, close its RGO and hit the "mobilize" button. As the game engine privileges unemployed pops during the mobilization process, watch the pops of you chosen province turning into soldiers, regardless of culture, religion or minority policy. Than, once the mobilization divisions are available, disband all of them. Now you can demobilize, and since there are no more divisions left to be demobilized, you keep your precious soldiers pops... repeat as you wish ( the larger your mobilization pool, the faster the process.) Now you can order cavalry divisions out of the same manpower pool, and rampage all over the British colonies. Imaging what you can do with Madagascar, Korea or even China.
Note: It works with unemployed craftsmen/clerks too, by closing factories - though who'd sacrifice precious industrial workers ?
Hope this was an interesting read,
qwerkus
THIS HAS NOT BEEN WRITTEN AND SHOULD THEREFORE NOT BEEN READ AS A WAY TO GET RID OF "UNWANTED" POPS. ANY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS GOING DOWN THAT PATH ARE AGAINST THE FORUM RULES.
*END OF DISCLAIMER*
I was looking for a way to overcome this game limitation, when I realized that the "mobilize" button can be quite handy to fill up your manpower pool, especially under "residence" policy. Maybe some of you already know this cheap exploit; for those who don't, here is a way to draft non accepted cultures massively into the army.
Let's say you play Oranje, and didn't manage to trigger the immigration flood - and yet you want to beat the UK. Buying weapons on loans is possible, but how about manpower ? Well, first of all, you need a (even minimal) mobilization pool - the starting 2 is good enough. While pausing the game, choose a heavily populated province, close its RGO and hit the "mobilize" button. As the game engine privileges unemployed pops during the mobilization process, watch the pops of you chosen province turning into soldiers, regardless of culture, religion or minority policy. Than, once the mobilization divisions are available, disband all of them. Now you can demobilize, and since there are no more divisions left to be demobilized, you keep your precious soldiers pops... repeat as you wish ( the larger your mobilization pool, the faster the process.) Now you can order cavalry divisions out of the same manpower pool, and rampage all over the British colonies. Imaging what you can do with Madagascar, Korea or even China.
Note: It works with unemployed craftsmen/clerks too, by closing factories - though who'd sacrifice precious industrial workers ?
Hope this was an interesting read,
qwerkus
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