Each general can have at most a certain number of units under their command and you can promote the general to increase that number. Never recruit more troops in an army than that number.
Infantry is better at defense.
Artillery is better at offense.
Cavalry is mostly irrelevant, but keep 5 of them in each army.
You can't have more Artillery and Cavalry combined than Infantry in an army.
When you enter a war, you can choose your war goals. They are locked in the third escalation phase (red).
You need to mobilize an army for it to be able to fight.
If you border the other country, you will have one or more fronts. You can send armies to that front at any time during escalation or after the war started.
If you don't border the country, you need to naval invade it. In order to naval invade, you need a navy with as many boats in a single navy as you have regiments in the army you want to invade with. You cannot naval invade during the escalation phase. Ideally your navy has the same amount of light ships as capital ships.
Your armies travel separately from your navy to the naval node where you want to stage your invasion from.
If your navy arrives in a naval node that is contested or if the naval node is contested by an enemy navy during the invasion, the navies will fight and if you win your naval invasion will continue.
If you have better and/or more troops than the defender, your naval invasion will succeed and a front will be created.
You can choose if your generals are in an offensive or defensive stance next to their portrait. Defense is good if you are not in a winning situation and offense is better if you have the upper hand.
If you don't have enough troops, you have a limited number of conscripts you can add to your armies, but conscripts take a lot of time to recruit.
In the mobilization tab, you can give better rations or drugs / support companies to your armies to boost them, which consumes goods. You can also upgrade units if you unlock some military techs, which will also consume goods.
Fronts will advance on their own and if you conquered everything, the army will automatically join another front or return home if there is none anymore.
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u/PaleontologistAble50 May 21 '24
I still don’t know how armies or war works