Size of AI armies

[Ybbon]

I thought armies were restricted to 20 units?

[♔Icebear77♔]

You are right, i saw this too several times, but it doesnt interest me. I destroy them all, 20 units, 25 units...

[tone]

There's 9 in each row

[TOLAROscipii]

I thought they were restricted to 2 rows

from what i can tell the player can not have more than 18 units

[tone]

Count the units. In the battle UI, at bottom, you'll see 20 units, 2 rows of 10.
Now look at the enemy army - you'll see 2 rows of 9 plus 2 extra, makes 20 units

[♔Icebear77♔]

You are right tone, but you must say, that it looks like the enemy has more units... cool... Iam a fool

[TOLAROscipii]

Thanks for pointing that out
I feel not to smart
smart me not

[Leeham991]

I thought armies were restricted to 20 units?

Did you fail primary school math class?

[Benz282]

Did you fail primary school math class?

Unnecessary. It is a common mistake we all probably made at some point.

[Leeham991]

Unnecessary. It is a common mistake we all probably made at some point.

Not anyone who can count...

[♔Icebear77♔]

who do you mean? me? hmm no i didnt fail, but i never counted the units in the battles if it was a full stack...

[Discipline]

In Rome:TW the AI can always have a stack + 2 in one army, and so it is in RS.

[stanley86]

In Rome:TW the AI can always have a stack + 2 in one army, and so it is in RS.

Totally BS.
And people, check something twice before you start a new thread about the matter that has been explained earlier many times.

[Ybbon]

Yeah OK, I didn't count.

No need to make smart alec remarks about failing maths (which I didn't) or making claims about being BS.

What you lot are all perfect and never make mistakes right? Sheesh.

Close the thread, yeah I feel dumb for not counting but you don't need to make wise-ass remarks to that effect.

[Benz282]

But if you're used to the UI's 10-unit rows, and you look at the AI's armies, you assume that a row of theirs is 10-units as well. Frankly, if you knew the answer, then all you had to do was politely answer the OP's question, not make the "smart" remark that you did.

[Leeham991]

I wasn't trying to make a smart remark. I was just amazed that it was a question that actually NEEDED to be asked by ANYONE.

[Ybbon]

OK, I'm not starting a war here, I'm not going to say anymore on this after this post. So first, yes I made a daft assumption that an ai stack is 10 units the same as the players. I've never counted them I just look at the overall makeup of their stack so it's an easy mistake to make. However, is it any worse an assumption to make, than the assumption that because the question was asked, the person cannot count?

As for the statement that this is in the forums many times previously, I don't dispute that, however, I just searched this forum for a few variants of "size of an ai army", "unit card" and a few others and although a lot of posts are returned, none that I read clearly stated an ai stack shows 9 units across on the card not 10 as per the players stack, though I only searched this forum not all forums and I'm sure if it stated that it has been asked before then the answer is there.

I realise that this is probably a problem with the search text I used as well as how well the posts are indexed and how many searches I did. There are 70k+ posts in this forum alone so although I could have searched for longer and found the answer clearly stated I didn't, I gave up and posted, but can everyone honestly claim that they always thoroughly search the forums before asking a question?

If not, if you are perfect in every aspect of your posting, well congratulations, me, I'm just human with the flaws and mistakes most of the rest of us make.

I'll be more careful in future but was there really any need to jump all over me like that? I wasn't rude, demanding, dismissive, aggressive, or offensive, I just asked a daft question and once Tone had pointed out quite how daft it was in a very clear way was there really any need to resort to questioning my intelligence or ability to count?

[stanley86]

I was refferring to Discipline's post first
I'm really sorry if you felt offended. It was not my intention to offend anyone. Guess I shouldn't have written that post (not the first time that I regret saying/writing something).

[Leeham991]

Sorry if I offended anyone, but I not used to that kind of thing. I generally around math geeks in my life so this thread's subject is a whole new experience for me.

[Gaius Omarius]

I'm with you, ybbon66. It's one of those silly oversights that make you cringe a little inside about making, especially when you ask about them online and then realise how simple the answer is. I'd imagine the majority of RTW players would have at one point made that exact same mistake, as it's an incredibly easy one to make.

So there's really no need at all to further embarass the person and insult them, as I rather think the majority of members on these forums are likely to be human and hence prone to error.

Sorry if I offended anyone, but I not used to that kind of thing. I generally around math geeks in my life so this thread's subject is a whole new experience for me.

It's not like he actually failed to count up to ten, it's an error of judgement in that you're used to seeing rows of 10 in your armies, and then are suddenly shown units in rows of 9 in enemy cities, which I'm sure you'll agree, is a minor enough difference to accidentally go unheeded. At no point did he even imagine to count them, which is perfectly understandable, so making it seem as though he failed to count up to the number 10 is completely erroneous.

And even if he had, I see no reason why he should be berated as one would a child. I could equally say I'm used to the company of linguists, and the experience of seeing someone say "I generally around math geeks" is completely new to me, and then ask whether you failed the basic-sentence-construction unit of comprehension in school, then apologise and say I meant no harm.

But I won't do all of that because I'm not mean