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Originally Posted by zraver
So at its height Rome probably fielded closer to 600,000 or 700,000 troops in all services. Out side of China we would not see Armies like that until Napoleon.
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Competent empires in India maintained armies around 600,000 troops, well before and after Rome. Around 800,000 was usually the upper-limit for the classic 3:5 patterned forces in India. But they never reached the ridiculous size of the Chinese imperial armies, which were recorded to have reached up to 3 million in some cases.