Elder Scrolls V: "Soon"

**Greyblades** · 03-13-2011, 17:22

Originally Posted by lars573

Legions who's total establishment is a few dozen.

See thing is in Morrowind you could go and see said legions. There was a fort next to every city and large town. Each fort was supposed to be a Legion's base. And they each had about a dozen legionaries in them.

Yeah but that could be excused as only one legion spread thin all over morrowind, most of the other legions could be running round in the other countries in the continent.

**lars573** · 03-13-2011, 17:55

Except it's not, when you join the Imperial legions in Morrowind they tell you straight up that all the legions (plural) are full up. The legion commanders all tell you to go and see the commanding general of the The Deathshead Legion based in Gnisis, his legion is under strength. Each fort is the base for 1 legion. The ES games work on a smaller reductive scale than TW games do.

**Greyblades** · 03-13-2011, 18:47

Wow... how the heck did they get to the crossbows and full steel armor level of tech without so much as getting more than 4-5 thousand people in the entire world?
Allthough now that I think about it with all the daemon and monster attacks that plague tamriel the question probably should be "how the heck did they get to crossbows and steel armo without dieing off?"

**lars573** · 03-13-2011, 19:04

Like I said it's like how in total war a regiment in Empire is around the size of a real world company or squadron. Or a cohort in Rome is the size of a centuria or maniple. Depending on where you set the unit sizes. Or the cities in Rome having 25000 for a huge city. ES has this to a larger extreme due to the way the game is built.

**Greyblades** · 03-13-2011, 19:30

Uh actually I was basing legion sizes on 1000 soldiers apiece as per what my primary school's history lessons told me, having multiple thousands of troops when you dont even have 1 thousand at home seems odd to me.

**johnhughthom** · 03-13-2011, 19:59

Originally Posted by Greyblades

Uh actually I was basing legion sizes on 1000 soldiers apiece as per what my primary school's history lessons told me, having multiple thousands of troops when you dont even have 1 thousand at home seems odd to me.

A Roman Legion was just over four thousand strong at full strength.

**Husar** · 03-13-2011, 21:02

The problem is, if you take realistic amounts of humans, you either get a dia show, or they all look like triangles, especially with the hardware available at the time Morrowind was released.
Also keep in mind that to make it realistic, you'd need more houses, people wpould complain about having to walk half an hour through that imperial city just to get to the next point of a quest etc.
Plus, most people just don't seem to care a whole lot the way it is now.