Talk:In omnia paratus/@comment-72.201.236.225-20171217021123

I assume the translator who did the synopsis above is not a native English speaker since a lot of it doesn't make much sense.

However there is a historical fact I'd like to point out. During WWII (and this story is somewhat based on a combination of WWI and WWII), a fully manned division US was about 30,000 troops (if I remember correctly this was also true of British units and I think German divisions were roughly the same size while Soviet divisions were actually smaller), and very rarely were divisions fully manned. Unit names were (going up in scale) platoon -> company -> battalion -> regiment -> brigade -> division -> corps -> army. The German army also had army groups above this and finally theatre commands. Generally three of a smaller unit made up a larger unit so for example a company would be made of 3 platoons. However a company could also be made of 2 or 4 platoons, whereupon they would be called light or reinforced companies respectively. And this is true going up the scale as well.

Patton's 3rd army was the single largest army ever deployed by the US and was comprised of over 300,000 men, so most armies were actually smaller. Modern unit sizes have far fewer people.

Now this takes place in an alternate reality so the above may not hold true, but 100,000 man divisions seem rather large, at least from a historical perspective.