What is the max unit size?

**brekehan** · April 05, 2009, 08:51 PM

While editing I wonder what is the maximum number of men I can assign to a unit? The most I've seen is 250 from others, but what happens if I do something crazy like 500 or 1000? Besides my PC bogging to a crawl? Will the game crash at some point?

**Shaio** · April 06, 2009, 07:00 AM

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=232113

i believe that is that your looking for.

**falcone79** · April 06, 2009, 01:59 PM

I was playing around with Native Americans and gave them like 300 men per unit for their standard infantry units. Yeah, it slowed my performance down a great deal, but it's what you can handle, I suppose. Setting them to 1000 wouldn't be a good idea.

**1dominator1** · April 06, 2009, 02:04 PM

There is no limit, during the demo someone posted a screenie of a unit of grenadiers. It had 9000 men.

**falcone79** · April 06, 2009, 02:09 PM

Originally Posted by 1dominator1

There is no limit, during the demo someone posted a screenie of a unit of grenadiers. It had 9000 men.

Jesus, how did his PC run it? lol

**1dominator1** · April 06, 2009, 03:17 PM

It didnt, the frame rate was about 2 fps, so it was by no means playable, but it was proof that you COULD have that many men per unit.

**l33tl4m3r** · April 06, 2009, 04:50 PM

So far, on my older rig, I've managed to play full stack armies with the multiplier set to 1.25 netting 200 men per line regiment.

At only +80 more men, it ran fine for me.

**Enarion** · April 07, 2009, 02:55 AM

Currently set my campaign_multiplier to 1.5 in preferences.empire_script
and unit sizes for Line Infantry is 200...

So I got up to 300 sized Units in the game.

**Arn** · April 07, 2009, 04:28 AM

I managed to run a battle with 100 000 (10x 10 000) men on medium... though with lots of lag and when I tried to change their formation it took so long that I ctrl alt deleted. I've got some screenshots of 50 000 men on ultra as well

bye bye hardcoded limits

**Shaio** · April 07, 2009, 07:25 AM

I'm playing with around 300 per lien infantry regiment... I'm considering turning everything to low and seeing how many troops i can get at a playable fps..