RE: Army size limits
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:24 pm
When the modder's guide comes out, you'll know how to mod the game and set the limits to whatever you want.
ORIGINAL: ericbabe
The Royal Navy could raise the revenue required to buy many new ships of the line, but even with draconian feudal-style impressment of manpower, they were hard-pressed to recruit even the minimum number of lubbers they needed to man them all.
I was recently reading about how the Food onboard ship in the Royal Navy at the time. Bread infested with maggots, meat salted so heavily that it got harder and harder with time and eventually it could be carved into the shapes of objects and polished to a high sheen like wood. Had to be boiled for several hours before it was edible it was so hard and salted. Water that was infested with algae to the point it had to be mixed with rum to sterilize it, etc.
Yeah I can see why they had manpower issues.
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ORIGINAL: ericbabe
Historically, Britain could have given Prussia this much, but there's just no way that Prussia could have mobilized anything beyond the 6% it already had in the field -- at some point, money just wasn't the limiting factor.
Right. Well look at the current situation with ammunition in the United States. We elect a President who people fear is going to try to pass antigun legislation. The availability of guns and ammunition plummets as demand skyrockets. There simply isnt the production capacity to match present demand.
This would be the same as having a standing army so large the production capacity of the region couldnt support it. Yeah there are measures that over the long term could be helped by spending additional money. But these measures are well modeled by the Universal Service I and II upgrades, the Krumper System upgrade, etc.