What does your army usually look like late game?

FlubberDubs

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Just a question since I am new. I played my second game on Warlord, and the middle option for all the game types (standard size, temperate 4billion bc etc, 7 opponents). Just curious as to what your army looks like towards the end err maybe 1940 ad. I won my game pretty handily towards the end even though I was 3rd most of the game, I knew my no army, high culture would pay off in the end. Later I massed army when I got some metal and here is what I had.
1) About 80 tanks
2) About 25 F-16's
3) About 60 Armored infantry
4) About 20 Battleships
5) 3 Aircraft Carriers
6) 4 Transports
7) About 20 cities (I found very little corruption, and had massive cities)

I upgraded every town with every building I could essentially. After I had about 50 tanks I decided I had to get out of 3rd place so I took every Iriquois town that I could, while allying the French and being at war with the English and Iriquois. Then after they had one town left below the French I signed peace treaties with everyone again to keep my people happy (I love the King days with a Democracy??? hehe). I also had to take one of the Persian cities (they had the whole other continent) in order to get a airport their and keep them in check. I then won the space race in about 1980's I think.

Enough about me now, what do your armies usually consist of?
Also, how do you go about the game in the later years (tanks etc)?
 
At the end.... well.... they look sort of peaceful. Lying there... sprawled out across the battlefields.
 
My army looked pretty similar
45 infantry
25 Mech
30 Tanks
25 artillery
7 Jets (they are pretty worthless until air superiority gets fixed)
14 bombers
6 modern armor
10 Tac nukes
4 ICBMS
and one Elite Hoplite!
Plus a big navy since the two biggest powers were overseas
5 Destroyers
20 Battleships
3 Carriers
3 Transports

I tweaked the values of battleships (movement 4), Aegis Cruisers and Subs so I built some of them but I wouldn't build many with default settings 10 Aegis, 8 nukes, 2 regulars subs.

I had 25 cities and corruption averaged 4.5%

Personally, I think what is missing from your army is artillery build lots of it...
 
I'm not in a late stage just yet, but from past experience in Civ2, there is no need for a large army in late game as most ppl would either be dead or allies.

Of coz, I would ve a couple of Mech Infan in each city but alside from that, I'll have a few tanks n quite a few nukes n an army of engineers to keep my allies incheck.
 
Late game modern army: from my first complete game which just finished. It was a large map, all the settings randomized, 11 AI opponents.

~70 Mech Inf. (fortified in cities)
~10 Modern Armor (sleeping in capital, ready to fight off invaders)

that's it. i decided to get going early, wiped out five of the other six civs on my island by about 1300 AD, then with my massive territorial edge i just teched up to spaceship, launched it in 1850s. in my experience being an early warmonger is a pretty decent strat in the new civ... territory seems incredibly important in terms of winning by any of the six methods. i suppose you could get a diplo victory with a smallish empire, but it helps to have a lot of cash to throw around to make the other civs like you. plus, if you expand early your score is a lot higher than if you wait and start warring in the modern age...this game i came out with score > 3000 while in another game i was gonna win by domination and i was still around 1500 with over 50% of the land (got sick of warring, and the end was obvious).
 
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