Talk:Nations/@comment-93.122.250.83-20170701195117/@comment-75.132.10.101-20171112125222

TL;DR Rewatch the aftred credits of 5 and the begining of 6 and take into account that Tanya's unit is aircav and not foot soldiers.

Now that being said, It was 3 divisions she went up against with her battalion. Lets further define this and I am using ww2 units simply because i cant find it for ww1, however much would not have changed. By no means were they a true battalion since they atmost numbered 50 and a battalion is 400. If anything it would have been a large platoon or sqaudron depending on how you want to look at the application. Now what they went up against was 3 Divisions which is anywhere between 30k-35k men.

Now I mentioned Tanya's unit was a platoon or a squadron depending on how you looked at it, from an army stand point thats what they were, how ever if you look at it from the fact that they were a force attackig via air it would be a squadron or two. They had mobilty and magic on thier side going against what would be 1700s/1800s picket lines and that was referenced. Also its mentioned that they did leave enemies for the other forces coming behind them. From what I gathered from the two anime episodes blitzkrieg tatics were used after the forward hq was taken. Also they mentioned secondary explosions and near missess, and back then an airstrike would be more devestating than a modern one. Anyways, from the collapse it seems like it was do to the fact they had their capitol hit and 600k destroyed by 70k thats basically 6 standing Armies getting destroyed by a Corps and a half.

http://secondworldwar.co.uk/index.php/army-sizes-a-ranks/86-army-units-a-sizes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squadron_(aviation)