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In my game (Austria, GC 1.08) France had a sudden drop of land forces - the land forces graph goes straight down showing France losing about 500K men in about 1 day. Then the graph goes straight up again indicating a gain of about 250K. Now they maybe can build that many troops in a day, but losing that much?
Question is, can I now assume they really do have the amount indicated by the graphs or is the entire book-thingie useless in case this is an error?
 
I very rarely look at this detail. After all a real Monarch or whatever wouldnt really know that info either.

I suppose that you could pause the game, use a cheat and go around the world counting their forces.........

Not really worth it though....... be a real ill advised leader!
 
Uglyduck: true in one way, wrong (I think:)) in the other - a real monarch or whatever would have a way to estimate or guess how many french troops would be around. Since you do have spies(in some events they are mentioned so Paradox has obviously tohught about them).

Admiral Yi: I really dont think so since the graphs for instance react immediatly after you recruit new troops.
 
Originally posted by 12-G
Uglyduck: true in one way, wrong (I think:)) in the other - a real monarch or whatever would have a way to estimate or guess how many french troops would be around. Since you do have spies(in some events they are mentioned so Paradox has obviously tohught about them).

Admiral Yi: I really dont think so since the graphs for instance react immediatly after you recruit new troops.
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Yes the graphs react immeadiately - there was no radio in those days so the info would not be up to date. I think I prefer not to look...I like surprises anyway!1
 
Originally posted by 12-G
Admiral Yi: I really dont think so since the graphs for instance react immediatly after you recruit new troops.
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I don't think that necessarily proves its daily. The graphs could be monthly scale but updated on a daily basis, so the big jump you're seeing is the total for the month so far.
 
Originally posted by Admiral Yi

I don't think that necessarily proves its daily. The graphs could be monthly scale but updated on a daily basis, so the big jump you're seeing is the total for the month so far.
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I dont really understand that. No matter what the scale is, if updated on a daily basis they are showing progress day by day not month by month? Since the graphs, noce drawn, dont change when the month is completed.

Uglyduck: True, true, no matter how you look at it, its unsatisfactory. I guess I just go by intuition like I have up to now anyway - since I mostly declared war on smaller powers, I tend to be attacked then by the majors anyway ;)
 
I believe the graphs are updated yearly - just look at the very early on (1493-4) and it becomes obvious that it's updated yearly.
 
The important thing about the graphs is that they're only a rough guide, however often they're updated ... if your line is currently surrounded by half a dozen other lines, then you're pretty much in line with other countries.. if it's way way below any other line, you're in deep shit. :D

I wouldn't try to analyse them too exactly, because I suspect they won't stand up to it.
 
Those graphs are ace documentation material and should be taken screens of when they're all green dots. When they're crap, don't pay attention to them, they don't matter anyway :D
 
In that game I refrained from taking any province from a major (bar Turkey) to keep the game going but by the time I bordered France from the North sea to the Mediterranean I quit the game :D
 
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