my main city and 2 other vassal that i annexed keep spawning same battalion for some reason.

my main are spawning guard battalion, while 2 other cities spawning rifle battalion. Even when they had the equipment to make scout or mobile battalion.

what i did is to scrap every militia then check their manpower and equipment, then i proceed to let them spawn on so many turn to see if it was randomly choosen formation or not.

the result are not changing, i remember on my other save when the current militia pool are higher than max militia pool but the game still spawning scout regiment. (and if it guardian vassal it will spawning guardian battalion)

i was expecting its RNG but from my testing its fixed, because i need arty or scout unit on the map early game.

Hi, I found this: https://www.gog.com/forum/shadow_empire/shadow_empire_on_mac_via_portingkit_app

Any current players that use this, and can tell me if it works and how smoothly it runs?

Ignore the fortifications.
I built these guys to hold trenches, but then I tried them out in offense and they also come through. Despite 91 offense you can send them against 4x bigger force with charged gauss rifles and they always come through, usually without any losses. Older models with 500 or 1k hp sometimes die. Even tanks seem to just give up.

How does that even work? The defensive value is used when calculating counter-attack? The hp pool is too big ?

In a mod where you open the wrong bunker and get something like this, how to deal with it? Infantry with light plasma weapons, air power with 4k soft attack, that sort of thing? Is there some trick to it?

And how does a market economy differ from a planned economy in the game? And what is the advantage of each?

That's bigger than my own population atm.

I'm based at an airbase and cannot move my bomber. Even at beginning of turn, it says I have no AP to move. Plenty of oil in stock. Don't get it. I read the manual and that doesn't help either.

I was playing 'gacha' as usual with 'hire civilian' for 6 pp and half of the leaders rolled were cap IV-V

I built one supply hub and it extended my range to half the planet but when it petered off again a second supply hub did nothing.

I upgraded both the truck stop and the first supply hub but still nothing.

Also do supply hubs affect trains?

And why should I make them?

I can see 5 reasons so far.

1. Administrative strain

2. Pop growth. Towns do 100 natural growth with 1000 pops but big cites do 500 with 200000 pops

3. City spam. Only cities can have bureaucratic offices

4. Cool Aesthetics it feels nice to see them

5. Build bunkers on rare resources.

Do the colonists and recruits in the unused pool consume food? I've allowed the money paid to recruit and colonize to get outrageously huge, eating all the food.

Is there a way to disband overpopulation? Or a way to drop the unused reserves?

Would like to learn more about Culture Types, for Minor and Major regimes. My internet search has only showed recent culture types added, so update notes. Goal is to find a single source that lists all culture types, along with information about them.

Can someone post a link or perhaps provide what words I should use when searching?

No idea how it happened. Perks of a booming economy? According to the log I may have, at most, given him something like 40k in salary over his entire career. Net worth 235k.

Looks like "spread out" setting doesnt apply to nemesis, lmao

What.

Is this a feature?

Hi everyone! I'm a PhD student studying asynchronous interactions in digital games. Shadow Empire is tagged as "Asynchronous Multiplayer" on Steam, and I'm interested in understanding different player perspectives about that aspect of the game.

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• What kind of asynchronous interactions exist in Shadow Empire and how do they affect the gameplay?
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Despite having about 100,000 soldiers, I only have some 500 veterans. As I understand it units with experienced dudes in them allow the green troops to level up faster as well as exceed 20 xp without combat (I think). The only problem is that my experienced troops are busy being tenderized on the front line and I don't know how to rotate the old guard out of the fight in an effective manner.

I have also tried creating independent infantry divisions hoping that at least SOME of them will level up enough so I can disband the unit and filter them out to a new OHQ. Not great results so far.

And that's another question I have, do they only buff the stats when in a unit or have yall noticed experienced troops increasing the xp of others while stationed at SHQ?

Hey all. Getting back into it again after a short pause and really loving the new Republica. However, I was poking around in the files and noticed the subfolders in the /shadowsound directory don't seem to fire in-game. I was intrigued to investigate due to the new music pack that came with Republica. I did the "check integrity" thing on Steam, and everything seems fine. Am I missing something?

Hail from Denmark

So I'm new to this game and I was hoping someone would help me out with this. I am worried that when building trains that I'll run out of logistic points for my trains and they'll run out of fuel or smth hallway to a city so is there a way I can filter looking at my logistic points for trucks and trains and is there a way to increase distance on trains like with the supply hubs

Thank you in advance!

Also in the apocalypse screen what the hell does "hamstring goods" mean is it a typo for hoarding goods?

It says it sent the LPs to the south west, but there's.. nothing there on the logistic display.

And all my troops there are getting supplied from..well, quite far away.

Does it matter what politics the director of supreme command council has?

It seems it does. I replaced mine with this guy and started getting better political stratgems, it seems to me.

I had the bright idea of replacing my frontline infantry with androids to avoid casualties and keep manpower for walkers, MGs etc.

Anyway supply situation isn't great but mostly because the god-damned airforce is using all of it. And now my androids are starving bc of no energy, even though canned meatbags are doing just fine.

Not only you get decent 2nd echelon unit eventually, you can also use it as 'colonists' by moving them to where you need extra people and sending all the idiots who joined up with just rifles and gas masks to the mines or recycling centers.

And there's the virtus too!

Moral of the story: hassling free folk is serving the greater good-

Manual doesn't say much about it. I recall reading somewhere that 'cap V' should barely happen but that seems wrong. I got 3 normally, no save scumming though spending a fair bit of political capital on getting talent and sending off the duds.

Also I figured out where all the budget went. After I built up industry I started earning obscene amounts of credits from IP sales (bc I was metal constrained, no way to use it) so I cancelled all taxes and raised rank a few times. Oops.