Can army size go backwards?

Just curious about the way the game works:

Natural deaths are 1% of army size:
500,000 Army = 5,000 natural deaths a turn.
This is taken out of UP before you are credited new units.

If your army size is big enough so that your natural deaths are greater then your UP will your army size go backwards?

i.e: (Completely made up stats)
I only have 1,000UP
But I have 500,000 Army size = 5,000 Natural deaths.
Pretend I dont have any bonuses:

Spoiler:

Would this mean I lose 4,000 untis the next turn?

I know this is not a situation that would realistically happen, I just want to know if it is in the code?
If so do you lose the units from untrained, Idle or other units?
What if I dont have any untrained or idle? Does it come from income or military?
How does the game decide this?

-Alex

Kenzu? Admin? Anyone?
(Read: Bump)

-Alex

Give it time. Kenzu runs this section alone, and he is a little slower to reply but will reply in time.

Yes, you can have negative growth of your account if your UP cannot keep up with your death rate. This can happen only if you raid extensively or but UU.

The first type of unit that starts dying are untrained. Once you have no more uu to die, your other units start dying.

Not 100% which one starts dying though. Most likely a couple units in each type die (in the same proportion).

If you should lose 1% of your population, and your up contributes to 0.8% growth, then you will lose 0.2% of all units in each unit type.

It's important for players to consider that as their population grows, their UP becomes less efficient in real terms as it has to combat an increasing death rate. A good way out of this is starting some wars.


Still got questions?

Thank you Kenzu! Not really an isue for most but nice to know what happens.

-Alex