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This section has like proposals gives information to any person about of this headache.
My first questions are:
1.- How allocate labor with POW and General´s POW?
2.- How avoid that the POW consume a lot of food before of that you army is supplied?
Thanks in advance

I don't know if you see the POWs helping, but a province with POWs in it, should act like it has a higher Factory rateing, making the Labor slider get more labor for the points added to it

for food, and feeding, did you click on the forage button ?, they will eat off the land instead of relieing on depots

if you got a lot of POWs and troops in the area, put a depot there to help feed them

Hi Hard Sarge
Thank you very much. With reference POW´s labor points, I wish do a question.
They are put within of garrison of the province or stay out of the city to increase the labors´ points.
How do they works to this effect?

hopefully Eric will look in and can explain it, as I am not sure, all I know is what the manual says

which my first game, Paris had 30 some POWs in it (outside) and I did have a lot of Labor in the city

so would say, keep them out side of the city

my current game, I not really at war right now, so don't have any POWs to play around with to see

(if you do, go to a city that they are at, put about 30 points into the labor slider and see how much it says you should get for labor, then leave the screen, and move the POWs to the next province, then go back and check the screen, and see if Labor went down or not)

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

(if you do, go to a city that they are at, put about 30 points into the labor slider and see how much it says you should get for labor, then leave the screen, and move the POWs to the next province, then go back and check the screen, and see if Labor went down or not)

I will give it a try ASAP

Ian

maybe we need Eric to come in and explain it

I tried it with 17,000 POWs, and seen no changes, but that is a small sample

I have shoveled about 300,000 prisoners into Il de
France that now the majority of the provice speaks
Russian! Kill two birds with one stone is create a
2 corps army of about 80,000 with plenty of arty and
shovel all your prisoners to Paris. Build a depot.
Safer than trying to protect your POW camps with 1-2
militia/infantry and they get overrun by a roving
army. This could apply to any nation. Protect your
capitol and have plenty of guards for the prisoners.
Tim

well during a game I did put all my pow in my capital, and suddenly they did liberate themself, without any ennemy near.
So I had more than 100k ennemy on my capital :/

ORIGINAL: plasticpanzers

I have shoveled about 300,000 prisoners into Il de
France that now the majority of the provice speaks
Russian! Kill two birds with one stone is create a
2 corps army of about 80,000 with plenty of arty and
shovel all your prisoners to Paris. Build a depot.
Safer than trying to protect your POW camps with 1-2
militia/infantry and they get overrun by a roving
army. This could apply to any nation. Protect your
capitol and have plenty of guards for the prisoners.
Tim

Did you notice much / any change in the labour out put for your province after 300k prisoners arrived?

Ian

ORIGINAL: plasticpanzers

I have shoveled about 300,000 prisoners into Il de
France that now the majority of the provice speaks
Russian! Kill two birds with one stone is create a
2 corps army of about 80,000 with plenty of arty and
shovel all your prisoners to Paris. Build a depot.
Safer than trying to protect your POW camps with 1-2
militia/infantry and they get overrun by a roving
army. This could apply to any nation. Protect your
capitol and have plenty of guards for the prisoners.
Tim

How do you manage to keep your economy afloat with a permanent depot feeding 300k POWs and 80k troops?

I’ve never been able to use depots for long without running out of food and cash, but especially food. Late in the game, a depot means instant starvation to my beloved subjects.

I’ve never been able to use depots for long without running out of food and cash, but especially food. Late in the game, a depot means instant starvation to my beloved subjects.

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Starvation happens every time!

Ian

we are working on that right now

POWs are not as big a hassle as they were before

it is easier to maintain food now also

money too

just don't go hog wild with the troops and all should look pretty nice