The phrase "armies down" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
Without additional context, it is difficult to determine when it could be used appropriately.
Example: "The general ordered the armies down the hill."
Alternatives: "troops down" or "forces down".
Every turn you are putting at least three armies down, thanks to you dominion of Africa.
It is more convinced than ever that even the best-intentioned foreign intervention is bound to bog its armies down in endless wars fighting invisible enemies to help ungrateful locals.Echoes of Afghanistan rang loud earlier this month when French forces swooped on advancing columns of Islamists threatening the Saharan state of Mali.
That's the Fassbender line in 300, where Mike Fassbender says, "With all the world's armies down there, there's gotta be someone who can give it to me". Like, basically, "I'm crossing my fingers that someone down there can kill me!
"Let's take that black and white army down with us and let's right 115 years of wrongs.
Fabius Maximus, a Roman general nicknamed "The Delayer", wore Hannibal's invading army down by avoiding pitched battles.Make haste slowlyDelay even works in fields where time might seem to be of the essence.
In the Mexican desert the drug trade seems to involve everyone, from politicians and the army down; the army is said to sell on half the marijuana it is supposed to burn.Towards the end of his opus, Mr Shoumatoff becomes strangely obsessed with the paintings of pink and purple coyotes that fill the cheaper art galleries in Santa Fe, in New Mexico.
As instructed, the army downed the ship, killing a number of Israelis on board and wasting its cargo.
But technology had created far greater than imagined firepower that kept armies bogged down in trenches and turned the landscape into a death machine.
As the armies settled down to rest, Montagu approached his brother and advised him of the troops' low morale.
I'm concerned that when the robot armies sweep down on us, they will suddenly be stopped in their tracks.
These hardships meant that the Royalists arrived at Newbury before Essex, with both armies settling down for the night outside the town, too exhausted to immediately fight.
