Red regions and population pool

[evil potato]

I'm currently playing something like my 5th or 6th game. It's my first that i've been really successfull. Playing as the germans, I own all of Europe, Russia, Africa, Iceland, Greenland and i have a foothold in eastern canada and i've just conquer most of China except for Taiwan. The Japanese have been eliminated by the americans about 2 turns ago. So all of the Japanese possession in China turned green. After i reconquered Korea, Manchuria and French Indochina, i had the surprise to see those regions colors not turn to grey but to red. I cannot do anything in these region as i get an Illegal move message.

Other question. In production mode, my population pool is deep in the minus. Why? How can i change that?

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[von_Schmidt]

1. Under patch 1.040, you get a pop-up message when you conquer a region which used to belong to an Ally ('occupy' or something); this gives you the choice to take it for yourself or to give it back to your ally.

Once it is your ally's territory (red for Japan in your case), you cannot use it.

2. Minus manpower means that you have more units coming off the production line that turn than your manpower pool allows. So some of the units will have to be put on hold for a turn (rightclick IIRC); nothing else you can do apart from producing more R&D or supplies and less units...
The manpower pool fills up every turn based on the population for the nationality.WA and Germany usually suffer from a manpower bottleneck while Russia has manpowr coming out of it's ears.

Hope this helps,

-von Schmidt

[evil potato]

thanks helps alot.