What does Stacks mean when reffering to an army?
Vicarius
Stacks?
What does Stacks mean when reffering to an army?
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Re: Stacks?
A 'stack' is an army on the campaign map. Therefore, when someone refers to a half stack, they are talking about 10/20 in a stack, and a full stack is 20/20 units.
Campidoctor
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yeeh stack is any unit that carries banner on camp mapOriginally Posted by Scutarii
"Hoti to kratisto" - Alexander of Macedon
Vicarius
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Ok, I was playing XGM today and there was an ai enemy army with 22 units in one army and a settlement with 23 units in it, but the max units I can have in one army or settlement is 20. I was wondering why the AI could have more than 20 in an army and I can't?:hmmm:
"So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night. So, Jeff Beck pops his head 'round the door, and mentions there's a little sweets shop on the edge of town. So - we go. And - it's closed. So there's me, and Keith Moon, and David Crosby, breaking into that little sweets shop, eh. Well, instead of a guard dog, they've got this bloody great big Bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shopowner and his son... that's a different story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business, really. But, sure enough, I got the M&Ms, and Ozzy went on stage and did a great show."
-Del Preston
Ducenarius
Re: Stacks?
Are you sure about this? Remember that when you look at an enemy settlement/army it has 9 units per row which means that it would seem like a full stack has 22 units while it only has 20.
Protector Domesticus
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Probably that. It's impossible in the game to have more than 20 units in a single army.
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A full army
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Actually, the AI has a cheat that allows it to have more than 20 units in a stack, it happens all the time (at least in XGM, I can't remeber if it happens in vanilla).
Civis
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I not exactly 100% on this but on my vanilla campaign , in one of my cities (think it was seleucia) was still able to build units even though there was already 20. and about the AI being able to have more then 20, Im pretty sure it can do that.
Campidoctor
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nah it looks like that simply count them 1 by 1
btw scutarii i dont belive he is playng on Vh/Vh so ai has no cheats
"Hoti to kratisto" - Alexander of Macedon
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It doesn't matter if he plays on VH or not, the AI can still do this. I don't play on VH in XGM and it happens to me all the time. This may only happen in XGM.
Tiro
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You can still train units in a settlement when the settlement is full, but the unit appears outside the settlement, instead of in it. It's common and nothing strange with this. I'm also sure that a stack only can have 20 out of 20 units. Never seen an army with more...
Semisalis
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Take screenshots of the armies.
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Here's a 22 unit army in Britain. (I used toggle_fow to see it).
Semisalis
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Yeaay math!
Here's a 22 unit army in Britain. (I used toggle_fow to see it).
Ducenarius
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Count them carefully. There is 20 units, two rows with 9 and a third with 2
Miles
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Yep, Kratos is right. That stack definitely does not have 22 units. I've never seen any stacks with more then 20 units, not even in XGM.
Biarchus
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20 or 22. Thats still a pretty mean stack of Brits.
I refer to any group of soldiers as a stack. Small, half, big, full are terms to convey the rough size of the stack.
Quite often its whats in the stack thats of more importance than how many.
Full stacks can have differing levels on their banners. A stack of 20 battle damaged units might fill less than half its banner. A stack of 16 powerful upgraded and trained units will have a banner full of that factions colour.
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Libertus
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well math doesnt come easy to everyone you see =)
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Oh snap.My bad. Counting was never my strongest subject. I just always assumed each line was 10.
Although I swear people posted about it in the XGM sub-forum. Maybe I'm going crazy... Do they let you have RTW in an insane asylum?
Last edited by Scutarii; September 30, 2007 at 07:17 PM.
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