Army Size?

[Lord]

Sorry if this is really a newb question

but, i've played 3 dfifferent games, in 2 of them my army has reached sizes of 80, but in one its only reached a size of 20 per unit

do i have to wait for some invention to be made? or whats different about tihs?

[Maltz]

Hello:

You may go to "game options" before starting a new campaign. There you can change your unit size. Small is 20, Medium 40, Large 80 and Huge 160. If you have already started a new campaign then it will stick through that unit size throughout, though.

[Shottie]

I have a question about this also. It regards tactics and strategies. If you have a large or huge unit size does it make a difference. I know that a clear difference is the size of them and the size of the battles, but overall does it make any difference in tactics? I my self like to use huge and large because I like big units but is it worth it?

[Maltz]

I have heard that larger unit size prefers human players because there will be less resources (i.e. population availalbe) for armies, so the AI towns gets depleted faster.

So far I have finished campaigns on normal & large, and started a little bit of huge (my system can't really handle huge well). I find larger unit size favors lower difficulty & fast units on the battlefield. In larger unit size, each unit now takes longer to turn & kill, making flanking-routing combo slower to happen. A lower difficulty makes 1 vs. 1 easy, while fast units can still perform flankings faster than opponents. Maybe I have used too much HA recently, so I try to run my hastati like HA...

[Shottie]

The one major thing that kills me with large/huge is the arrows. Normal arrows are fine on my system (only 1 year old) but put my on D with a castle to defend and a battering ram coming at my door and those fire arrows slow down my system like a heart attack. Im hoping that Santa will be nice enough to get me a Radion 9800 pro for X-mas :)

[Red Harvest]

The one major thing that kills me with large/huge is the arrows. Normal arrows are fine on my system (only 1 year old) but put my on D with a castle to defend and a battering ram coming at my door and those fire arrows slow down my system like a heart attack. Im hoping that Santa will be nice enough to get me a Radion 9800 pro for X-mas :)

I've got a 9800 Pro and it isn't happy with the flaming arrows either (but it is paired with an XP2400 and 266 FSB, so it is a dated system) The flamers are slow, but the big problem is some sort of memory leak associated with them. They slow down subsequent battles as well.

[Lord]

oh, hehe thanks everyone

i was actualyl looking through unit size before, and i came upon it and i thought it meant the actual size of them, like if they'll be drawn small or large, idk if i accidently clicked it to change or not though =X