Campaign bookkeeping exposes a personnel constraint while the construction program is already about 20,000 tons over budget. The available crew pool is tiny despite the empire's territorial size, separating nominal scale from immediately usable trained manpower. Older submarines become candidates for disposal because surplus hulls consume resources that could support more useful ships. Although the game simplifies recruitment and training, the sequence shows why naval expansion depends on people as well as money, materials, and shipyard capacity.
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The crew pool constrains fleet expansion
An overcommitted construction budget and a tiny crew pool show why a large empire still has to retire older hulls before expanding its useful fleet.