Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-43593237-20190823084207/@comment-36170150-20190823123747

I remember testing this with Fulminato's tool when the update first came out and while I don't have an exact number, I can tell you that you can beat the 225 threshold, it just requires a number of decisions most people agree aren't optimal, such as:

Getting both the countryside and city merc regulations during chapter 3, you also can't skip the investments that improve Yhilin's army and the Succubus forces so you will probably have to skip seizing the mine, border reinforcement, monastery renovation, and magic standardization or the doom king's statue.

Having Balia upgrade your orcs' strength twice during chapter 3 to beat the 12 threshold, use the last upgrade opportunity to increase their intelligence to unlock Implevon and talk with him to increase orc discipline to 8, you will have to skip orc evolution but in the end this still brings army size up by a bit.

You will not get the best results in every section during the 3AW and you will miss out on a lot of stuff but if you minmax your army variables during the battles then you should be able to get more than 225 army size by the end of the 3AW, but I think most optmized saves are just shooting for the 175-199 threshold.