Why are my army levies decreasing?
I built barracks to increase the levy size in my capital, then i sent my marshal to train troops and the army levies started to increase rapidly. Then it proceeded to decrease rapidly and my marshal was still training the troops in the capital. What's the reason for that?
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It's difficult to give you a guaranteed answer without more information (a series of screenshots, or video, etc). However, there are a number of things that can cause a reduction in the number of available levy troops. I'll try to list them; hopefully you can find the one that happened to you (although that is unlikely given that you asked this question two years ago...)
- Your personal Martial attribute changed. This changes the maximum available levy size (by 5% per point); if you have more levy troops available than the maximum for your holding, they will disappear. Many, many things can cause your attributes to change - far more than is appropriate to go into here...
- Your Marshal's Martial attribute changed. Since he was training troops, he was also applying a 2.5% per point boost to the maximum available levy troops. The same logic applies here as for #1.
- You moved your Capital. This also impacts the levy cap directly.
- Disease. This may be the most likely culprit, especially if your levy cap was not affected. There exists, unfortunately, very little (if any!) documentation of this effect, but I have experienced it and it is referenced in The Reaper's Due DLC description. (see comment)
Hopefully you recognize one of these as being the cause of your problem, and hopefully I didn't miss any. I did leave out the impact of e.g. sieges and raids, because those are pretty obvious - if you were losing troops to an invading army or band of looters, I suspect you would have noticed.
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Levies come from titles you own, so if you lose the a title you lose the troops that went with it. So to keep them you have to figure out how to keep your titles upon death. You get Levies based on your titles and vassals. If you lose titles upon succession this also means fewer levies.How do you increase levies?
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