Help avoiding bankruptcy

I just took all of Spain, and have a lot of units throughout, but my gold is still at 3-5000. I keep getting the message to disband units cause of the upkeep is too great.But whenever I select a unit and click disband the gold amount doesn't change. I can't even take any region high, most turn yellow.

Is there a way to get a higher gold amount without having to restart the campaign?

put trading ships in trading outlets = tons of cash. Furthermore, obv, don't spend anything and disband as many military units as possible. Try to get as much trade with other nations as possible.

I'll have to get on the trading ports. But I learned that if the people don't like you either exempt them for a little while, then retax them. Plus I didn't know where to look for how much i'd receive the next turn. So it just takes time to learn the game, lol. Thanks for the help

There is two ways to get alot of money in the campaign, the first and easier way is to start as a neutral country ( Prussia if you are playing campaigns of the coalition) or just build a huge navy ( not the best choice as maintaining a navy costs alot) and go to all the trade ports around America and northern Africa, then start trade with all the nations you can, then once you are satisfied with your amount of money i would suggest to build your army and to start conquering. The second way is to play as France and stay att peace with Prussia and in the meanwhile destroy Austria, once Austria is out of the way then you should have a decent army to destroy Prussia and once that is done i would make 2-3 full armies to take on Russia, after Russia is destroyed you have a free hand in Europe, you can either re-mobilise your armies to take Italy or to to take England, all while doing this every region you capture should pay for the army in taxes, in my French European campaign i had over 1 million gold. But you also need to build markets and other economical buildings so you can get more money from your taxes, i hoped this helped

Thanks for the help, but currIm playing as Britain. When I took Paris soon riots,letters, strikes, and a rebellion occured so I had to start over. When I tried to tax them it would have made the debt grow deeper, plus the region of Paris stayed red no matter how I changed the taxes.

What is a solution to taking a region and keeping it stable and not have a rebellion start?

And I've been wondering should I be watching the months and years ore are they secondary and don't need to watch them?

Now I have so many allies I will have to declare war on some countries to reach 60 regions ia that smart?

Originally Posted by shackman

What is a solution to taking a region and keeping it stable and not have a rebellion start?

For one thing, don't plunder. Exempt them from all taxes. If they still remain positively rebellious anyway, remove all your troops from the region at once and park them in a nearby region. They're going to revolt anyway, and the revolt will be the worse the more troops you have in the region. When the revolt finally appears, move your armies back in to crush the revolt. Rinse and repeat until they've learned their lesson.

• Keep your military as lean as you can get away with. Don't build units if there's no pressing need. Disband unnecessary units.
• Try to not be at war with everyone. Pick your fights carefully.
• Keep building a steady stream of trade ships and use them to occupy as many trade nodes as possible (unless you don't have the means to protect them, in which case this approach is just a waste of money).
• Trade treaties. Trade with whomever you can.
• Concentrate on improving your infrastructure (farms, factories, trade ports, etc.). Even if your income is very low, save up a few tuns then build a new farm here or a factory there. You may not feel the difference right away, but over time it adds up.
• If at all possible, reduce taxes a notch or two. It may seem silly to reduce taxes when you're already cash starved, but in the long run this will accelerate the growth of your economy quite a bit.

It took me time but with help I finally figured out how to manage the money. A big factor was I was using autoconstruct,which ate away at my cash. Now with it off I have. 30000 gold