But, as Kal'buir said privately, you could stick a Weequay officer in front of the clone army and they would still fight well. An army of three million men with very few Jedi officers had to be self-directing.
There were, Ordo knew, at least a million troops now in the field spread over hundreds of worlds: small forces on some, multiple battalions on others. It meant long supply chains, and those were inherently vulnerable. So... why didn't the Separatist terror networks target them offworld? No ability. No suitable vessels or skills. Or... maybe the point was to intimidate the seat of galactic government after all.
razzy1319 posted:One thing Ive been arguing for is how little we know of the exact tactics, strategy, and movements. I could think of a lot of ways to handle the 3 million number, granted a lot of people wont buy it but it would in some level work. 1. How well could the sep fleet fight through Rep territory defended by Planetary Defense forces? 2. More importantly during the first six months how capable was the Sep fleet and sep army to do an offensive or defensive action after the surprising appearance of a rep army? 3. How narrow are the choices of planets minus planets that have no strategic value? 4. How fast can the factory world's output be mobilized without republic interference? 5. Are Republic conscripts as plentiful as the not well known as Imperial Army Troopers? 7. Was the 3 miilion troopers divided into 100 or less division to delay the numeric advantage of the Sep Army or even the mobilization of the Sep Fleet? 8. How far along did the first converted Sep battleships, detroyers and etc appear? 9. Were the core worlds defenses left in the hands of the Planetary Defense forces and their Star dreadnaughts, planetary shields and golan space stations? Theres a bunch more information that we dont know that might make the 3 million viable.
Lord_Hydronium posted: But a few problems with the conscription explanation: 1) We have never seen a single infantry battle fought by anything but clone forces and Jedi. 2) It's called the Clone Wars. Sure, wars get named inaccurate things, but if the clones made up 0.1% or less of the entire Republic force, you'd think people might not think of the war in terms of them. 3) The ITW quote. Clone forces very near the beginning are already bigger than three million.
dp4m posted:The Battle of Thermopylae is probably the best example of how 3,000,000 could function as a number, at least until the end of the Clone Wars when Grievous began to get desperate...
Thrawn McEwok posted:But, as Kal'buir said privately, you could stick a Weequay officer in front of the clone army and they would still fight well. An army of three million men with very few Jedi officers had to be self-directing. There were, Ordo knew, at least a million troops now in the field spread over hundreds of worlds: small forces on some, multiple battalions on others.
DarthBoba posted:1. So you're absolutely certain that with a run of 40 or 50 comics, a dozen or so novels, and two seasons of 3 to 10-minute cartoons, we've sen every last aspect of the clone wars? :P 2. THe clones & the Jedi are the elite. THe best there is, and so on and so forth. Of course the war is going to be named for them, as most of the key victories were due to them. NOt to mention that the Republic had never used clones before. 3. The ITW quote is nearly a year old. LoW is newer and thus overrules it.
Lord_Hydronium posted:Oh, come on, you love linguistic ambiguity and these have it in spades. For the first: Yes, what Ordo says is perfectly true. An army of three million would have to be self-directing. Of course, he never says the entire clone army is this hyopthetical three million man army. For the second: "At least"? "Over"? This should be an easy one. See, three million has never been given as a concrete number for the entire army. There's a lot more ambiguity in the quotes that support it than in the ITW or Shadowfeed quotes. The two are in direct contradiction, but we don't have to ignore the three million; all we have to do is say it's only part of the clone forces, which nothing specifically contradicts.
Lord_Hydronium posted:I stand corrected, LtNOWIS; I haven't read Jedi Trial)
DarthBoba posted:2) It's called the Clone Wars. Sure, wars get named inaccurate things,
Lord_Hydronium posted:dp4m posted:The Battle of Thermopylae is probably the best example of how 3,000,000 could function as a number, at least until the end of the Clone Wars when Grievous began to get desperate... Why do I even bother? Does the fact that Thermopylae is a million times smaller than the odds we need here mean nothing? Could the Spartans have realistically held off a trillion Persians?
QuentinGeorge posted:Good god, people aren't using Thermopylae as an example, are they? It's irrelevant for a few reasons: 1) Herodotus greatly exaggerated the strength of the Persians. (i.e., there weren't a million of them) 2) The Persians were invading Greece, not the other way around, whereas most of the Clone Wars engagements was the Republic invading CIS space. 3) The CIS can create new battle droids in what seems like (judging from AOTC) hours, whereas the Persians didn't have that capability with their own soldiers. The absurd lengths to which people are willing to go to defend this figure is admirable, but not logical.