Largest army?

[unmerged(84009)]

i cruched a 50 k army of rome landing in my lovely seleucide empire ( Anatolya ) , rome tryed to defeat me cuz in war against egypte, but with my diplomatic skill according white peace to egypte , i call back my armys of 10 k 12 k 14 K 6 K , i begin a escarmouche tactic from multipel derection with my armys, and i succed to destroying COMPLETLY the roman army hehehehe :rofl:

 

[comagoosie]

I have seen a 80k horde, but the largest AI army = 45k.

 

[Enewald]

I have seen only hordes of 60k... but in my game v 1.1 my roman field army had 1500k in the whole army... thanks to civil war...

 

[unmerged(101916)]

As Rome in my first war against the seleucids I had west of the Hellespont and they had east. When they declared on me my troops were all elsewhere so I had to block the crossing with a navy until I raised an army. In the meantime, the Seleucids kept stacking up in Bithynia. When I finally fought them it was a 127 unit stack. It was pretty satisfying wiping that out in one fell swoop.

 

[StephenT]

I had the pleasure of meeting a Seleucid army of 120,000 men. Not just militia either - a balanced force of heavy infantry, cavalry and archers. It was in Pergamon, on 21 May 692, and they managed to utterly annihilate the entire Roman army there (36,000 men).

That's the problem with saying "just let attrition wear them down." If they're in civilised provinces with a good commander, it will take months and months for attrition to take its toll, and in the meantime any of your stacks that can't run away fast enough will get massacred, especially now that combat is so much more lethal.

Largest stack I've ever massed myself was 76,000 men.

On a different note, the biggest naval combat I've seen so far was 75 Roman ships vs 69 Seleucid ships.

 

[Dinsdale]

I had the pleasure of meeting a Seleucid army of 120,000 men. Not just militia either - a balanced force of heavy infantry, cavalry and archers. It was in Pergamon, on 21 May 692, and they managed to utterly annihilate the entire Roman army there (36,000 men).

I had a similar experience, but managed to combine just before they arrived for an epic battle of ~100k each. That battle literally determined the entire war....even though it took years of sieges before the AI knew it.

 

[whosthebestcop]

96K Barbarian Horde. Too bad it only had about 25K of troops when it landed on my province.

We need to start taking snap shots of these large armies.

 

[unmerged(29005)]

So far... A 68k Seleucid army came bearing down on me, I abandoned the game there, but there were enough stacks in the provinces around that if they all converged on the same province (which seemed likely to me... as it had the last remnants of my army in it... ) they would have easily broke the 100k barrier, the 68K army was mixed with militia making up less than 1/2... it was terrifying.

 

[dojoboy]

Generally it's easier to just let them die due to attrition than attempt on touching those. Unless you have 60k elites close and you are sure they have militia. Elephants are very good in this job, try elephants.

I'm warring w/ Carthage atm. Rather than rushing from battle to battle, I'm allowing my forces to reinforce in captured provinces. By what you wrote, does that mean if the AI doesn't spend time replenishing forces, just goes battle to battle and laying siege?

 

[unmerged(38830)]

64 000 acheans marched into paphlagonia, spearheading the macedonian alliance invasion of my fair country Pontus, catching me with my pants down since I had 40 000 men total under arms at the time, and no army larger than 12 000 men.

 

[unmerged(98731)]

I wonder, which general in his right mind would send an army of 60k men if he knew that in all probability they will all die because of attrition?

In real life armies forraged the ground their marched through. That's why denying food to the enemy was so important back then. These days we have KBR to provide for our needs.

 

[unmerged(34615)]

I wonder, which general in his right mind would send an army of 60k men if he knew that in all probability they will all die because of attrition?

Hannibal, Hitler and Napoleon. I'm not sure any of them were in their right mind.

 

[unmerged(34615)]

I've only just started playing Rome, but I've had a 32-unit barbarian stack come through in only year 2 which, when you've emptied Rome like I did to take on Carthage, is a real killjoy.

Also, if you start Selucid, Egypt immediately throws a 50-60 stack army at you in the first couple months, that got my attention right quick.

When you defend/attack Egypt, you see how thinly stretched the Sel empire is, as your manpower goes from 100k to zero crossing into Alexandria, and that's playing with a 25% easy bonus, just because I like big army stacks without headaches. It's even worse if you try moving armies by naval-fleet, they get hit with 5% the second they board the ships, which I think is a bit rough.

Lesson learned: Big stacks are as dangerous to their owners as they are to their enemies. I generally keep mine in the 10-15 range, generals permitting.

 

[lucaluca]

89, Rome. It was sitting in Ager Bruttius trying to get to Syracuse which I, Seleucid Empire, had occupied from my own province of Panormus. I was blocking them with a fleet; then i left them attack my 39 army in Syracuse and they lost due to the landing penalty I think. After that defeat Rome went from asking a 6 gold monthly tribute to asking for a white peace. I refused.

Then smartly I thought: ok, now they have low morale, all I have to do is to block the strait and the army will stay in Syracuse to fight again againts mine. In the few days I needed to move my fleet in the strait, the stack had regained enough morale to kill my whole 39 army at once.

The war ended with a hardly achieved white peace o

 

[Leon Blum]

123 units of Seleucids comming to iberia fighting my 135 k of macedonians

(i think the battle was 112 000 macedonians vs 95 000 seleucids ; 15 000 dead on both side / i won the battle)

was in 682

 

[Spacehamster]

Egypt seems to frequently use 70k stacks and a lot of 54k stacks

 

[unmerged(29005)]

So... I've just beaten down the Roman-Pergamon axis... Bythina attack me (madness?) and I'm just trying to break the Asian side of the Sea of Marmara and then... Egypt arrives... with a 103 man army and a wad of ones in the 20 - 35 bracket -.-

-.- After all this warring my whole army isn't even as big as that!

Coincidently... I offered them 15 gold a month... (score of 274%... they say no... I say O SHI-....)

 

[unmerged(11375)]

Carthage was fighting me (Rome) and Egypt at the some time, and had a stake of 113 roaming the "board" for a while...

 

[unmerged(38928)]

Largest stack I have seen was about 40. It seems the AI player matches your stacks? It doesn't go much bigger but perhaps it depends on province frontage as well...

I use rather small forces (playing rome: Legions of 24.000 or 12.000 troops and smaller stacks for garrison duty)

Greets,

Sulla