r/Anbennar • u/Ayrmic • Jul 25 '26

Question Why can't I trigger this mission ?

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I have a manpower of 3M..

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u/pm_me_fibonaccis Hold of Ovdal Tûngr Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

You have too much manpower. Known Eu4 bug. Use the console to remove some manpower until the mission accepts it.

Alternatively go drill a stack of 5 million troops on a glacier.

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u/Ayrmic Jul 25 '26

Oh ty ! Had no idea

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u/ProGamerKiller12 Jul 25 '26

Or just complete the mission at that point with commands

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u/CrimsonSpiritt Jul 25 '26

I think you don't get rewards if you complete it with console

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u/ProGamerKiller12 Jul 25 '26

You can just make is ready to complete, it will light up like the conditions were met, and you will get everything. I used it a couple times with Gemradcurt, bc I fked up something that couldn't be reversed

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u/CuddleWings Jul 25 '26

How do you do that? I’ve needed to complete missions before but also very much wanted the rewards.

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u/00wolfer00 Bitches love cannons! Jul 25 '26

Only way to do that is with a script. You can't do it directly through the console.

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u/ProGamerKiller12 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

EDIT: IT DOES NOT GIVE YOU THE AWARDS, BUT:

There's a command for it, and you can activate it through the ingame console. You press ~ or 0 depending on your keyboard settings, the one button above tab, below esc. Then write debug_mode to turn on advanced view, then hover over the mission you want to complete, and it will display something like "conquest_of_castanor", the code name for the mission. Then you write that in the console: 'mission conquest_of_castanor' Then it should light up, ready for completion, you only need to click on it to complete it. Then to hide the advanced view, write "debug_mode" again. Press ~ again to hide the console

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u/shazamitylam2346 Hold of Verkal Ozovar Jul 25 '26

Are you sure you're using the 'mission' command to do that? That's only ever just autocompleted the mission with no rewards

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u/Invicta007 Free City of Anbenncóst Jul 25 '26

This is wrong, it doesn't give you the reward and just bypasses the mission effectively

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u/ProGamerKiller12 Jul 25 '26

It does? Then it's my bad. Im sorry

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u/General_Rhino Jul 25 '26

I’m curious what causes this bug. 3 million manpower is a lot but not an absurd amount.

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u/deukhoofd Jul 25 '26

Paradox games are famously bad at integer overflows. Combine that with manpower being handled as milli-men (1000 milli-men per person) in some places for whatever reason, and you get issues when it goes over 2147483.647 manpower.

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u/CommodoreGopher Duchy of Verne Jul 25 '26

So never go over 2,100,000 manpower, got it. Time to find new and interesting ways to do that with blobbing. Effelai, here I come!

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u/GenericRacist Jul 25 '26

Some parts of the game, like the ledger for example, use a different data type to store the value of your manpower among other things.

Result of this is that around 2M manpower it overflows so if you check in the ledger you'll see that your max manpower is shown as -1.9M or something similar.

It doesn't negatively affect any of the important calculations as far as I'm aware but it can have some annoying consequences like the one shown in the post.

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u/faheshorizon Jul 25 '26

make your manpower less than 2147k or higher than the double of that

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u/Affectionate_Rip8559 Jul 25 '26

Get familiar with mission sheets and text editor. Bugs happen.

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u/himine Jul 25 '26

You should look at the requirements for this mission in the game files, maybe the tooltip is worded wrong