If you look in the military advisors screen and click on his icon in the top right corner, he will say either we have a strong military or a weak military, or an average military compared to whatever civ is highlighted below.

What I want to know is what is the difference between being weak, average and strong ( and any others if I have missed them).
Is it a number of my units versus my opponents units or is it a percent more units then my opponent or is it something else?

Its the number of military units afaik

Do you need to have 1 more then the other to be considered stronger then him?

Originally posted by Sir Eric
Do you need to have 1 more then the other to be considered stronger then him? I dont know the exact number, but you do need to have more. Also the experience and quality does´nt matter, ex: they considder three Swordsmen to be better than two Tanks.

Yoda Power> That is old stuff. It has been patched since civ3 1.29.

Below is a research someone made just recently.
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The unit stregth is (3A+2D)HP+B
A - attack strength
D - defence strength
HP - helth point
B - bombard

Then, the total armystrength is sum of unitstrengt + 4
The +4 is probably an easy way to get rid of divison by 0 for civs without any units.

My superspeed chariot 1.1.100 was no better than a warrior.
I have just test HP a few times, needs more.
I have not tested bombard rate/range, combination of bombardstregth and attack/defence.
4 catapults is just sligtly better than 1 regular warrior.

1.25 Strong
0.8 Weak
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Originally posted by Qitai
Yoda Power> That is old stuff. It has been patched since civ3 1.29.sorry I did´nt knew that. Well you learn something new everyday.

On the military advisor thing, he always tells you we can support a bigger army, even when I can't. Does he not notice that my account is currently O and I'm at my max for allowed units? What is that all about?

Superevie :king:

Yes but you're earning gpt, so you can support a bigger army;) He isn't happy unless your not earning anything or going broke supporting your units.:lol:

Originally posted by Gengis Khan
Yes but you're earning gpt, so you can support a bigger army;) He isn't happy unless your not earning anything or going broke supporting your units.:lol:

Hee Hee! :lol:

Heres my advice: Ignore the advisor's advice.

(vbraun the civ advisor) ;)

Originally posted by vbraun
Heres my advice: Ignore he advisor's advice.

(vbraun the civ advisor) ;)

Righto, vbraun! ;)

I'm with vbraun, especially concerning the other advisors. The map is covered with my cities, I can neither trade for luxuries, build more cities, or support more units!

vbraun is right... the advisors usually lead you in the wrong direction. I rarely listen to them. If I think my armada is big enough... I go in for the kill (unless against a militaristic civ... they're kinda different).