Graeme the mad
Certified Maniac
Just wondering how big an army youve ever fielded at one time because today I hit my all time high.
It was during a war with the persians in mid industrial ages - they occupied a sizable continent to the south of my larger northern one - split between me (iroquouis) and my american allies. A third continet was occupied by the French and Romans and the zulus had many colonies on it (they originating from a small island between the 3 continents).
This was a huge map (255 having edited up in 1.21) with a number of my edited rules - most importantly +5 hp for industrial and modern units (only +2 for ironclads though), lethal land artillery and lethal sea ships (4 rof) and ship movements tripled for industrial and modern age ships.
Becuase I had planted a spy I could see that the persians army consisted of - 164 infantry, 58 cavalry, 90 immortals and 40 artillery.
Becuase their entire island was connected by railroad I relised a huge force would be required so I devoted a sizable proportion of my troops to fighting against them and landed in one spot 56 infantry and 32 arillery making a total of 84 units on one spot - the largest army i'd ever fielded.
The persians however attacked with far more vigour than I've ever seen an AI use - they used their artillery to hound my troops, then threw their 4 and 3 hp immortals at them. After that came the infantry and by the end of the turn the stack had been defeated and 32 extra artillery were in their hands.
On top of this I noiced when checking the armies the next turn as I always do, the Americans had lost 50 odd infantry that turn (i can only presume they landed on the persian soil on that turn as well becuase no Us cities were taken) - this meant the Persians had wiped out a totla attacking force of 134 units in one turn
However after by 20 ironclads and 5 destoyers and the zulus 10 ironclads engaged and destroyed the 40 ironclad strong persian fleet that had been blockading and bombarding the island city on which my coal came from (who says the Ai dont use ships to blockade? - try incesing their movement points) the persian army was reduced to a meager total of 150 total - 72 of which were artillery and 16 of which were workers and an American forces started to make inroads on them. THen my far more repecatable force of 8 cavalry, 16 infantry and 8 artillery arrived and we finsihed them off - capturing back my artillerly as we went
However now the persians are gone their are some real huge armies left - especially as the romans and zulus finally colonise the far north of the eastern continet - my military power stands at 456 - the americans at 510 :eeK:
The zulus at 207 - but with a fleet 80 strong - compared to my 15 and the romans at 350. Looks like the game could get interesting (like it hasn't been already - wahoo for 1.21F!!
It was during a war with the persians in mid industrial ages - they occupied a sizable continent to the south of my larger northern one - split between me (iroquouis) and my american allies. A third continet was occupied by the French and Romans and the zulus had many colonies on it (they originating from a small island between the 3 continents).
This was a huge map (255 having edited up in 1.21) with a number of my edited rules - most importantly +5 hp for industrial and modern units (only +2 for ironclads though), lethal land artillery and lethal sea ships (4 rof) and ship movements tripled for industrial and modern age ships.
Becuase I had planted a spy I could see that the persians army consisted of - 164 infantry, 58 cavalry, 90 immortals and 40 artillery.
Becuase their entire island was connected by railroad I relised a huge force would be required so I devoted a sizable proportion of my troops to fighting against them and landed in one spot 56 infantry and 32 arillery making a total of 84 units on one spot - the largest army i'd ever fielded.
The persians however attacked with far more vigour than I've ever seen an AI use - they used their artillery to hound my troops, then threw their 4 and 3 hp immortals at them. After that came the infantry and by the end of the turn the stack had been defeated and 32 extra artillery were in their hands.
On top of this I noiced when checking the armies the next turn as I always do, the Americans had lost 50 odd infantry that turn (i can only presume they landed on the persian soil on that turn as well becuase no Us cities were taken) - this meant the Persians had wiped out a totla attacking force of 134 units in one turn
However after by 20 ironclads and 5 destoyers and the zulus 10 ironclads engaged and destroyed the 40 ironclad strong persian fleet that had been blockading and bombarding the island city on which my coal came from (who says the Ai dont use ships to blockade? - try incesing their movement points) the persian army was reduced to a meager total of 150 total - 72 of which were artillery and 16 of which were workers and an American forces started to make inroads on them. THen my far more repecatable force of 8 cavalry, 16 infantry and 8 artillery arrived and we finsihed them off - capturing back my artillerly as we went
However now the persians are gone their are some real huge armies left - especially as the romans and zulus finally colonise the far north of the eastern continet - my military power stands at 456 - the americans at 510 :eeK:
The zulus at 207 - but with a fleet 80 strong - compared to my 15 and the romans at 350. Looks like the game could get interesting (like it hasn't been already - wahoo for 1.21F!!
, 5 swordsmen, 3 knights, about 23 cavalry, around 30 elite tanks, and 310 modern armor or so. 
