Becoming empire, unable to use metal and manpower

[Southern Hunter]

Every time I become an empire, I find that the "sell iron and manpower for gold' decisions double the amount sold, which is way more than my empire limit, thus making the options borderline unusable. I appreciate there might be an argument that I need more military buildings (which I think will increase my metal limit?), but up to this point, it hasn't been required for any other use.

[Pocus]

Since 2 patches military buildings, at the nation level:
- Boost Military Expertise, which is an essential modifiers if you want good leader and others perks
- Increase the limit in manpower and metal
At the provincial level
- each contribute half its XP to the region recruiting units (the ones in the region provide 100%)
At the region level
- increase drastically XP of garrisons (all buildings)

[desertedfox]

Hi Pocus,

Since 2 patches military buildings, at the nation level:
- Boost Military Expertise, which is an essential modifiers if you want good leader and others perks
- Increase the limit in manpower and metal

Do all "red" military buildings contribute to this, including forts etc?

Do any other buildings contribute to this?

[loki100]

yes its all red buildings. The value is 1 point for a level 1 building, 2 for 2, 3 for 3. Since the ideal is a national average > 4 this gives you some idea how valuable pushing one or two regions deep into the military building list can be - and that it really helps to have 2-3 level 1 everywhere (which is feasible as 2 of these don't take an infrastructure slot)

no, no others (I believe) so even things like the master blacksmith that also give experience to new units are excluded.

[desertedfox]

Cheers Loki.

Many thanks for your many answers here and on other Matrix/Slitherine forums.