Quote Originally Posted by Southern Hunter
The previous post I THINK we were talking about polybian era legions, which is when many of the legions were 'oversized' to fight particular threats.
They were 'typically' of 1200 Velites, Hastati and Princepes, plus 600 Triarii, or 4200 all up. Again cavalry ala of 300 and artillery notwithstanding. But they did go to 6000 or more in a single legion, presumably by expanding the size of each line (more of everything in other words).
Hunter
They would have a similar amount ofSocii making a legion about 9000 strong