Army Size

**Ayanami030** · February 05, 2010, 02:25 AM

I got this question for quite a long time, my regular army strength would be about 1800 - 1900 men, but some of my enemies can easily have over 2000 troops at their hands.

How come the enemy always have more army than I have? This is not fair!

Could the RS 2 change this balance?

**aja5191** · February 05, 2010, 02:35 AM

It depends on the units you're using - some units (like heavy cavalry, for example) can have only up to, say, 24 men, but other units, such as many of the low- to mid-level phalangites, can have up to 120 men (240! on huge unit size).

So it's more of unit selection than the limitations of the game, in this case.

**Tesla** · February 05, 2010, 05:32 AM

Yeah, e.g. (on huge unit settings) with greeks a phalanx has 240 men sword hoplites on the other hand have 202, archers 160 and cavalry often has 80/120 so if your enemy has a lot of infantry then they will often outnumber you.

Because you will probably have more archers and cavalry than they will

**Charontas** · February 05, 2010, 06:04 AM

But you I regulary find that the AI had armies with more than 20 units, while you cannot do the same. I find this quite troubeling sometimes, especially when you are facing multiple AI armies with 20+ units each.

But hey, I guess it is some kind of balance for the tactical stupidity of the AI, no?

**Ayanami030** · February 05, 2010, 07:00 AM

yeah, I think that is more challenging for the game-play.
In the field battle is ok, I can use some tactics, but for siege, if the enemy have more than 20 units at their full strength in the city, it is very hard to defeat them by a single legion.

**Cassius Flavius** · February 05, 2010, 07:13 AM

Why can't anyone count units in one line, there are 9-unit lines when you looking at enemy army, so it is 20 units max.

**Octavius-Augustus** · February 05, 2010, 08:04 AM

Originally Posted by Cassius Flavius

Why can't anyone count units in one line, there are 9-unit lines when you looking at enemy army, so it is 20 units max.

A common and amusing illusion. It's just that you expect 10 units per line.

I myself have wondered what's going on before actually counting the number of units..

**Tesla** · February 05, 2010, 08:00 AM

Yes 20 is the max

Edit:
When you double click on an enemy army you will see rows of 9 unit cards instead of 10.
Which looks like this:
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That's why some make the mistake of thinking it's 20+ units

**Ayanami030** · February 07, 2010, 09:00 PM

oh! That explains why the enemy seems have more troops than I have. But still, in the field they do looks like they have much more than I have! Damn that AI, they seems have infinite money to recruit their troops at a super fast speed, it reminds how the Germans feels when they were at Russia. They destroyed an Army Group yesterday, and there is a fresh new group comming out today. It seems it never ends.............

**Tesla** · February 08, 2010, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by Ayanami030

oh! That explains why the enemy seems have more troops than I have. But still, in the field they do looks like they have much more than I have! Damn that AI, they seems have infinite money to recruit their troops at a super fast speed, it reminds how the Germans feels when they were at Russia. They destroyed an Army Group yesterday, and there is a fresh new group comming out today. It seems it never ends.............

I'm not sure but I believe the AI doesn't upgrade every city. Which leaves them money to recruit more armies.

Though you could always send an assassin or two to a city and destroy the baracks/stables/ranges