Quote Originally Posted by abou View Post
Not quite. Here is what I wrote for the Magnesia battle description:


Back to the main point - guys, don't get caught up in numbers. If it helps, consider the populations of cities as those being only males eligible for military service. I know, it doesn't completely work out that way, but remember that the games are only an abstraction. If you get caught up with every little detail, you'll keep yourself from enjoying the game.

As far as army numbers go, I would consider 240 (242 with the officers) men in a phalanx unit on large as the equivalent of a 4,096 man strategiai. Adjusting unit numbers to more accurately match that ratio is on the list of things to do, but it's low, low down on that list.
now this is a very good scaling idea. if 1 phalanx unit would represent 4096 men under arms, then 20 of those (full stack) are roughly 82000men. take into account different squad sizes for different factions and units and you would get from 50000 to 100000 men for different full stacks which fits nicely with most documented "grand" armies of the ancients. i like playing this kind of math. so 1 imperial era legion could roughly be represented as 5500 infantry which scales down to 325men unit. can the engine support larger then 300men units? but those 5500 had also some auxilia attached to them so the heavy infantry component would be around 5000-5100men which translates to 300 men unit at full strength. so far so good. but the problem is (i am sure this has been discussed before) how to represent pre-marian legions? any ideas?