Talk:Army/@comment-2601:989:200:A9CF:E196:5985:73:CA8C-20170915005230/@comment-176.99.180.72-20170915154924

You miss that Infrastructure also raises army size (in the Yhilin Army section). If you did your best, it should give you +10 Army Size. And Countryside Mercs give you +15 on their own or +18 if you also have city mercs. This is why you assumed that they gave you only +8, but actually Contryside Mercs granted you +18, which is 8 points more than Infrastructure did. In your case, however, this is pointless (you don't reach 200 and you are not going down to 150), so you'd rather not investing 120% in mercs. But in my playthrough Contryside Mercs allowed me to reach 200-size threshold, so I preferred them.