Quote Originally Posted by seleucid empire View Post
but the persians had 600 000 in the sythcian campaign of darius and millions in the Greek campaign of Xerxes. And despite what people say about the quality of persian troops, even a levy had to eat as much as an elite soldier didnt they? also the perisnas had huge amounts of cavalry which were probs made up of noble families from asia as well as their elite heavy infantry the immortals and Greek mercenaries

And apparently the Assyrians and Median empires before the persians raised an average of 1 000 000 troops per campaign
You are obviously confusing facts with exageration. There's no way an army in antiquity could fiedl 1 000 000 troops. The land just wasn't able to support such numbers in terms of food and water. And those persian figures are way, way exagerated. You should base your knowledge upon 300