What is the max number of armies?

[warmwaffles]

Ok today I ran into something interesting and never seen before...when I built around 10 or so army units the game wouldn't allow me to build anymore, and when I disbanded one army my capital (where my Intelligence Agency was built) would let me build another unit....why is this...whats the max allowed in one game?

and I mean how many fully loaded armies are supported by Civ3

 

[Pentium]

You need 4 cities for every army. So you can have floor(<number of cities>/4) armies.

 

[warmwaffles]

ah now that makes sense I had 43 cities....cool I didn't think that applied...I thought that you just needed 4 cities to start building armies

 

[Pentium]

You only need one more city for your next army

 

[vmxa]

Don't forget you may find it useful to disband an old army someplace and then you can make another one.

 

[Captain2]

where do you build armies btw? i know its kinda a newb question but i've been off civ 3 for awhile and forgotten, got tied up with freedom fighters for awhile

 

[Pentium]

A Military Great Leader can build one. You have a chance of getting a MGL every time your elite unit wins a battle.

 

[Captain2]

cant you build them too? because my ellites tend to have a short life span

 

[Pentium]

Get more elites

But you can build armies in a city with Military Academy.

You can build the MA after you research Military Tradition and at least one of your armies has won a battle. It's a small wonder so you can only have one.

 

[Captain2]

ah kk, thats my problem then

 

[Ansar]

512/4 = 128
(512 is the number of cities allowed in a game, and 4 cities required per army)

that means you can have 128 armies in the game.

 

[vmxa]

Only if no civs are left and you kept on playing, otherwise you could not have 512.

 

[warmwaffles]

128 armies...with the game stock...now if you changed it in the map editor to 1 city hahaha...512 although I dont think I need that many...but again....I wont beable to fight anyone if I have 512 cities *god damn limits WHY WHY*

 

[Lord Emsworth]

Only if no civs are left and you kept on playing, otherwise you could not have 512.

Settler on a ship.