How the hell do you guys have so many troops?
Recruiting troops is exponential - you receive troops according to how many you already have.
If you have under 100 troops then every time you recruit you get 1 troop.
If you have 100-199, you get two troops each recruit cycle.
If you have 1000-1099, you get 11 troops each recuit cycle, and so forth.
Essentially you get (1% * (current number of troops) + 1) each time you recruit. A 1% "interest" rate isn't much, but with 576 compounding cycles a day, it's actually rather significant.
So now that I have over 2,000 troops, I get 20 each time I recruit. Since I get 60 turns every 2.5 hours, I get well over 1,200 troops each 2.5 hours (which, of course, will mean I'll be getting over 30 troops each recruit by the end of that play time).
If you did nothing but recruit with all your turns, you'll have over 45,000 troops in a 24 hour period.
So... I'm going to give that a try.
It helps that once you get a few thousand troops, then you spend 10 turns building wealth and get a few thousand gold. Building up troops is probably the best thing one can do in this game - it's the ultimate leverage because it's the only thing in the game that's exponential in growth - everything else is pretty linear.
-Adam
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