How many Armys can the Human build?

[Adamantinus]

Can the human not build more than 3 Armys? In my current game I'm playing as the Romans, I'm at the end of Modern era, I have the Heroic Epic, Academy, and Pentagon. 3 armys and a GL. But I can not turn my GL into an army, nor can the city with the Academy build an army. Is this a bug? Five turns ago the Chinese declaired war and showed up on my border with 6 armys . I took out 3 of them, now he has 4, (so my spy tells me).

Anyone have any ideas why this is?

 

[Aggie]

You can get an army for every four cities. So 20 cities = 5 armies. 46 cities = 11 armies.

I assume you don't play CIV3 Conquests? Doesn't make a difference for the number of armies. But they aren't built by the AI in conquests (or very rarely...).

 

[miller4242]

x of amount cities = one army

more cities = more armies

good luck with your game...

 

[alamo]

Armies are not that great. I build one for the Heroic Epic, but it spends most of the time healing.

 

[Adamantinus]

Ok, thanks Aggie, miller4242. I have less than 16 citys, my empire is small but powerful.
I watched the Chinese stomp England, Arabia, and Persia out of the game so I knew my time would come, and I was ready for him, (Stealth Bombers and Radar Artillery to soften his armys befor thay reach my citys).

He may kill me, but he'll do a lot of bleeding first.

 

[bingen]

Armies are not that great. I build one for the Heroic Epic, but it spends most of the time healing.

This is true for the vanilla game. For the Conquests expansion the argument is whether they are great or whether they are ridiculously overpowered.

 

[viper275]

Aggie has the answer. If you want to see a human with a HUGE amount of armies, check out Bamspeedy's game in Stories and Tales, Beyond Sid. He had... 50 armies or so?

The best I have ever done is 8 on Napoleonic Europe.

 

[SesnOfWthr]

The maximum number of armies the human may have is 127 with standard victory conditions on.

 

[Tomoyo]

Sesn, you forgot to account for a settler on a boat...

 

[SesnOfWthr]

Sesn, you forgot to account for a settler on a boat...

You're right, I did. I saw your name as the last post and wondered what I was wrong about....

 

[Tomoyo]

You're right, I did. I saw your name as the last post and wondered what I was wrong about....

Wow. Now I have a reputation.

(I saw your name as the last post so I knew you were responding to my post, but I wasn't expecting this)

 

[T-Money]

127? Damn. The most I ever had was 7.

 

[SesnOfWthr]

Well, it's a "technically" answer.

The most cities you can have in the game is 512, after that you can't build another. So divide by 4, and subtract one (the ai city), and you get 127, right?

But, as Tomoyo was so kind to point out, p) the ai could have a settler in a boat somewhere, so you could get the 128th.

Either way, I generally don't have more than a handful in a game either.

 

[MSTK]

Sadly, I've been playing the game on a daily basis for a while now, and I got it on my 13th birthday in December. I have never had an army!

 

[T-Money]

Not even one? You must have either really bad luck or a buggy game. How many elite victories have you had?

 

[SesnOfWthr]

Sadly, I've been playing the game on a daily basis for a while now, and I got it on my 13th birthday in December. I have never had an army!

First off, I would STRONGLY recommend reading SirPleb's leader farming article in the war academy.

Second, I know you are currently playing at Monarch, MSTK, and that has something to do with it. Obviously, the more units you face, the more leader chances you can manufacture for yourself. But you still should have gotten a few by now.

If I had to guess, I would say you are not manipulating the game to give you more leader chances. You should not be using your elites to attack healthy forted vets just because they have a higher chance of winning. Rather, you should be attacking the weakest units you can find with your elites, so even if you don't get a leader, the unit should be healthy enough to try again next turn.

 

[Mewtarthio]

^ Yeah, the very first army I ever got was from taking a lone Elite Tank and sending him across my Rail system to kill as many outdated enemy units (like Sipahis, which Osman loves far too much) as I possibly could. If I had an enemy in a spot where a Reg or Vet could defeat him easily, I chased him around until the Elite could get into position. That's how you get Leaders. (I get the feeling that Xerses finally promoted poor Darius as a way to make up for all that useless garbage cleaning).

 

[Tripwire]

This is true for the vanilla game. For the Conquests expansion the argument is whether they are great or whether they are ridiculously overpowered.

What did they change about them in C3C?

 

[SesnOfWthr]

They now have an extra movement, can pillage without using up a movement point, and get a bonus to att/def when you build the MA, and possibly before that too.

Oh, did I mention the rapid healing?

 

[jm chen]

And healing in enemy territory, which is sweet.