# Civ3 question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civ3-question/283522>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 7, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civ3-question/283522 "2005-01-07T04:51:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civ3-question/283522/21 "2005-01-07T17:20:36Z")

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I don’t mix them, but I know people who do, so it’s just a question of taste, I think. All my armies are offensive units.  
It takes three armies to build the Pentagon.

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**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civ3-question/283522/22 "2005-01-07T17:44:35Z")

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> [@adam yax](#):
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> I thought that you could only have 3 or 4 armies at any one time.

The number of armies you can have is limited by the number of cities you have - you can create 1 army for every 4 cities. Given that the max city limit is 512(511 for you , 1 for AI) cities, you could in theory make 127 armies if you wanted too.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civ3-question/283522/23 "2005-01-07T22:29:47Z")

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Ah, Civ stories. I remember playing the original and deciding to nuke everyone, everywhere. Naturally, the pollution turned just about every square into swamp, which meant my cities soon starved down to near-nothingness. Only one city had enough food to support a settler unit (they had two fish ocean squares), so my single covered wagon set forth to clean up all the pollution and replenish the Earth. It took 800 years.

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