Armies equal to or greater than 100,000 men.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_II
Campaigns and battles
Ramesses II as a child (Cairo Museum)Early in his life, Ramesses II embarked on numerous campaigns to return previously held territories back from Nubian and Hittite hands and to secure Egypt's borders. He was also responsible for suppressing some Nubian revolts and carrying out a campaign in Libya. Although the famous Battle of Kadesh often dominates the scholarly view of Ramesses II's military prowess and power, he nevertheless enjoyed more than a few outright victories over the enemies of Egypt.
During Ramesses II's reign, the Egyptian army is estimated to have totaled about 100,000 men; a formidable force that he used to strengthen Egyptian influence.[13]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Punic_War
Western Mediterranean (218 BC - 213 BC)
Hannibal's overland journey
Route of Hannibal's invasion of ItalyThe Carthaginian army in Iberia, excluding the forces in Africa, totaled, according to Polybius,[3]
90,000 infantry, 12,000 cavalry and an unknown number of war elephants and was thus one of the largest in the Hellenistic world and equal in numbers to any that the Romans had yet fielded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas
and "300 Spartans were assembled in an attempt to hold the pass of Thermopylae against a massive Persian army of between
80,000 and 290,000 men-at-arms who had invaded from the north of Greece under Xerxes I. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_warfare
The Magadha Empire further east in northern and eastern India and Bengal had an army of
6000 war elephants, 80,000 cavalry, 200,000 infantry and 8000 armed chariots. Had Alexander the Great decided to continue his campaign in India, he could have faced extremely strong opposition from such a large army.
the Maurya Empire was recognized as a great power by the Hellenistic World, and the kings of Egypt and Syria sent their own ambassadors to his court. According to Megasthenes, Chandragupta Maurya built an army consisting of
30,000 cavalry, 9000 war elephants, and 600,000 infantry, which was the largest army known in the ancient world. Ashoka the Great went on to expand the Maurya Empire to almost all of South Asia, along with much of Afghanistan and parts of Persia. Ashoka eventually gave up on warfare after converting to Buddhism.
The Qin army was said to have had
1,000,000 men.
All as quoted from the wikipedia.
So, how many will I be able to build in Civ V, If I play Egypt? or Persia? or China?
3? 5? can I reach 10 units?
Will these squads of 16 units represent 100 men? or 1000 men? or 10,000 men?
Stacks, however annoying, did try to represent more units.
There were large armies in the past, and Civ V promises to REDUCE the low numbers we already have in Civ4.
This I find disappointing.
I look to test my strategy skills with large number of troops, and conquering the world, not, suffer because someone built a flawed game, that is losing its Fun factor, in favor of some new idea about game mechanics.
