War Exhaustion

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War Exhaustion
A War Exhaustion interface.

War exhaustion shares similar properties, mechanics, and functionalities with stability, but surrounds the field of war. The level of exhaustion can fluctuate from a scale of 0 - 10, depending on specific conditions. These conditions include total military losses a belligerent faces during combat, the amount of territory annexed (especially the capital city), the number of wars a country is engaged in, and external events.

As a result, stabilizing war exhaustion at a low rate is extremely crucial and vital to a country, especially during a long-term war, as having a high and uncontrollable exhaustion could lead to severe and critical consequences, such as harmful events/national modifiers, decreased stability (which could possibly lead to releasables declaring independence), diminished tax and manpower income, widespread unrest, and more.

War Exhaustion Modifiers

Modifiers

War exhaustion affects 5 modifiers: Manpower Increase, Tax Income, Unrest Reduction, Stability Change, and Rebel Activity.

Table

A descriptive table that displays the events and statuses per the war exhaustion amount.

War Exhaustion Information Chart
W.E. Amount	Modifiers		Status	Consequent Events	Notes
0 - 1.3
	Manpower Increase	-0% - -6.5%	Relatively Low	No significant events.	Usually during peace or engaged in war.
	Tax Income	-0% - -9.75%
	Unrest Reduction	-0% - -6.5%
	Stability Change	-0% - -0.05%
	Rebel Activity	-0% - +26%
1.31 - 2.99
	Manpower Increase	-6.55% - -14.95%	Moderate	Deserters	Although not as common, the "Deserters" event could possibly manifest.
	Tax Income	-9.82% - -22.42%
	Unrest Reduction	-6.55% - -14.95%
	Stability Change	-0.05% - -0.11%
	Rebel Activity	+26.21% - +59.81%
3 - 4.99
	Manpower Increase	-15% - -24.95%	High	Deserters Anti War Protests Widespread Mutinies	"High War Exhaustion" notification will automatically appear on-screen.
	Tax Income	-22.5% - -37.42%
	Unrest Reduction	-15% - -24.95%
	Stability Change	-0.12% - -0.19%
	Rebel Activity	+60% - +99.8%
5 - 10
	Manpower Increase	-25% - -50%	Extremely High	Deserters The Last Stand Anti War Protests Widespread Mutinies Widespread Insurgency Skills Shortage Chronic Desertions Economic Depression	The maximum effects of high war exhaustion, including a crippled economy, stability, military, and more.
	Tax Income	-37.5% - -75%
	Unrest Reduction	-25% - -50%
	Stability Change	-0.2% - -0.4%
	Rebel Activity	+100% - +200%

Methods To Control War Exhaustion

There is a wide array of methods that could effectively increase or decrease the value of war exhaustion.

Increasing War Exhaustion

• Engaging in one war automatically increases war exhaustion gain by +0.025. This number does not change when declaring on more than one wars.
• Losing a significant amount of cities within your country, especially major and capital cities.
  • Losing control of your capital city gives a war exhaustion increase of +0.05 until you either retake it or move it to a different city.
• Accumulating a heavy quantity of military losses, most notably over 5 to 10 million, during a war.
• The amount of wars a country is simultaneously engaged in.
• Foreign countries could fund rebels against you during war.
  • Although Funding Rebels does not directly affect war exhaustion, they are capable of skyrocketing Rebel Activity, which could lead to harsh national modifiers and events.
• Mass scorched cities, particularly square cities, can greatly inflate war exhaustion, whether from manual scorching, bombers, to nukes.
  • Nuclear weapons impact the highest devastation towards a country's war exhaustion upon striking an important city, such as a megacity.
• Certain events can result in an automatic war exhaustion spike (e.g., Strikers Make Demands).
• The German Empire's formable modifier is the only modifier that raises war exhaustion at a slight percent.
• The 'Armored Fist' military doctrine, located under the 'Manoeuvre Warfare' tree, passively increases war exhaustion by a slight +0.004.
• Having the War Bonds Law active increases war exhaustion by +0.05 on Moderate and +0.15 on Maximum.

Decreasing War Exhaustion

• Withdrawing from wars completely
• Mitigating the number of military losses during combat.
• Using both Security and Healthcare Spending can decrease war exhaustion, but the reduction percent varies on the level of spending.
  • This is more effective with reduced spending cost as you are less likely to get a deficit from spending.
• The Socialism and Communism ideologies significantly decreases war exhaustion gain at a considerable extent, which is why many players use those two ideologies during long-term wars.
  • One can strengthen the Communism and Socialism modifiers, which will amplify the war exhaustion mitigation, by using these factors:
    • Researching the entirety of the Ideology Improvement branch.
    • The Political Reformer leader.
    • Going on High or Maximum on the Party Loyalty Law and/or State Atheism on the Religious Emphasis law to increase ideology power.
    • Several formable modifiers can also raise the power of both Communism and Socialism, such as the Soviet Union, European Union, Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Confederation of Northern States and Sacred Union of Shambhala.
• The The Last Stand event can automatically lower exhaustion.
• Some formable modifiers, like the North Sea Empire, can directly reduce war exhaustion gain at a miniature level.
• 'Stalwart Defense' and 'Arms from the Fallen' military doctrines reduce war exhaustion gain by -0.005 and -0.0075, respectively.
• The Massed Attack doctrine path decreases war exhaustion taken from losses by up to 79%.
• There are certain laws in game that decrease war exhaustion.
  • The "Propaganda Only" law in the Press Regulation section passively decreases war exhaustion gain by -0.03.
  • The "State Religion" law in the Religious Emphasis section passively decreases war exhaustion by -0.005.
  • The ideological law of "Trotskyism", only available for Socialist and Communist nations, passively decreases war exhaustion by -0.02.