Armies are standing armies of troops that are used on planetary defenses, or deployed off-world by Military Fleets. Armies add their ratings to the world or fleet they are stationed on.

Armies have a total of +2●. The distribution of dots is determined on army creation, and remains that way during the army's existence.

An army can be assigned to a military fleet, this is called an 'attached army'. In this case, the army becomes part of the fleet, and opens up extra options for the fleet. While the army is accompanying the fleet, it is not available for planetary defence, but it does add it's bonus dots to the fleet it is attached to.

An army can only be attached to a fleet whose home port is in the same system as the army's home planet.

Attaching and detaching an army is done with the Attach/Detach Army action.

Constructing and army takes 5 and costs 2000. Keep in mind that you can only support one defence force or army per 1.0 on a world (see troops for details).

An army's upkeep is 25 per .