Half size armies question

[invalidopcode]

Every so often all of my troops get reduced in size to exactly 1/2 their original size. On all continents in all regions. For instance, all my full units of 120 soldiers become 60 soldiers.

Is this normal? I thought it might be assocaited with having 0 money but cannot find any reference anywhere. I guess my google-foo is non operational...

[Monsieur Alphonse]

When you get the bankruptcy message your armies will be reduced by a half. Your soldiers are deserting when they are not paid properly. To avoid this you have to be sure that you have enough money and that your cash flow is positive.

[Prussian to the Iron]

what i find useful is to disband all non-essential units. so if you have at least a region on all sides of your city, or it is hard to get to (like paris) you probably dont need anything but policeing forces. i just try to keep public order at a minimum of yellow.

pre-patch, i had like 4 full stacks in my marathas campaign, making like 25,000 a turn. now, i find it very costlly to maintain 2 armies in any campaign. i reccomend keeping 1 war going at a time, and not initiating war with anyone until that war is done. that way, you can justify having just one army.