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What is the difference between military strength and defense icons?

A Rio Grande-side forum poster and a community post agree; the poster stresses the color cue only "tends" to hold.

  • onigame · Publisher · 2008-09-04
  • onigame · Publisher · 2008-09-05
  • ackmondual · Community · 2020-11-09

Military strength tends to be a red number and defense a white number with a red outline, but specialized military also uses white-with-red-outline circles. The reliable test: Military has a plus or minus sign and is cumulative, while defense is never cumulative.

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