Army sizes seem too big on demographics

[Zalcron]

is it just me or do u think the army size figures on demographics is total bollocks. Example my country of 20 million people has an army of 6 million. Even in ww2 the Uk with 40 million people could only field 5 million, i feel a recaculaiton is in order, comments anyone?

[GeorgeOP]

I think army size has to do with the number of units you have, while Population has to do with the size of your cities. So basically cIV is implying that you have to many units for your civ size. It's just a math calculation based on the numbers, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

[Phite11]

Originally Posted by GeorgeOP

I think army size has to do with the number of units you have, while Population has to do with the size of your cities. So basically cIV is implying that you have to many units for your civ size. It's just a math calculation based on the numbers, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

I read in another post somewhere, that Civ IV applies what are referred to in the military as 'force multipliers' to your units to calculate. For example when a single warrior unit counts theoretically as '1', an artillery counts as 5 or 7 or something, and a battleship counts as 50 or something. I have no idea what the real force multipliers used are, but I read this is how it works to calculate military size.

[davelisowski]

Read about it here:

http://www.civfanatics.com/civ4/stra...mographics.php

[Bushface]

It's all because of the "phantom" soldiers derived from certain buildings and techs. Goodness knows why this weirdness was chosen, but it was, and the link in the above post explains how it works.

[Padraig]

I've wondered if it's possible to have a military larger than your population. It's theoretically possible based on how the game is coded, but I've never strived for that goal...my wife is the warmonger.

[Antilogic]

I really would like to see a better scaling for the numbers. Do cottages add to the population? No? They should.