Quote Originally Posted by Blazing141
So basically, when we play RTW/EB, we are getting nowhere near the size of the units reported in history?

Is that correct? And if so, is that because of technological limitations (i.e. pc''s can't render that effectively yet) or because the game is hardcoded with certain limits?
Partially hardcoded, partially for gameplay reasons. Computers at the time of RTW's release could not handle the amount of men required to represent accurate numbers, and beyond that there is no way the player could control 20,000 men at once without severe micromanagement.

Incidentally, the hardcoding is why you only get the "reinforcements delayed?" message if your computer can't handled all those additional units appearing on screen at once. Internally the game refers to that message as "computer_too_weak" or something like that.