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Basically, no, this attacking ground force is not as large as people think it is.
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Listed ground assets are as follows:
Alliance
Arcturus Division: 60
Special Operations Division: 175
Engineer Corps: 30
Special Ops team: 35
Terminus Mercenaries: 200~
AlienAsari Commandos: 20Alien
Krogan 1st Division: 50
Krogan Clans: 300
Geth: 300
STG: 70
Turian Marine Division: 90
Blackwatch: 75
Engi Corps: 110
This is what I have, and what I'm working off of.
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A US division has at the top range 20,000 troops, not all of which hold guns on the front line. Given how the Alliance is presented, it seems largely western-derived, and I see no reason to assume that their division holds different numbers. A Corps is, let's round off, four divisions. I'll take the classification of the Alliance Spec Ops division at face value and assume full strength. That gives the Alliance force of 6 divisions.
As Mass Effect has its translation convention, whatever word the Krogan use for their armies is being converted into the English division, implying roughly equal strength. One division gives a strength of 50, and since I see no reason to assume qualitative differences between their two entries, Krogan account 7 divisions.
Turians, through the same translation convention, account 5. STG is likely not a full division, given their value in comparison to the Alliance team and their likely qualitative advantage.
Of course, the Geth are a wild card. We have no idea how numerous their ground units actually are. Let's come back to that.
Adding accounted for ground forces gives 18 total divisions, or 360,000 troops. Current divisions are organized in such a way that about 40% of the manpower available are combat troops. Let us be generous and grant this emergency 60% of the same (keeping in mind that the historical trend is towards more logistics units). Multiply out, 216000 troops on the ground.
Now, dealing with the fleets with attached marines is a mess. However, we do have baselines. The Destiny Ascension has a stated crew of 10,000, at the same time it is stated to be 4 times the size of the largest human ship. Dreadnaught crewing is therefore somewhere in the 2-3000 range. Figuring marine percentages is impossible, but for the sake of argument, take 50%.
Alliance Dreadnaughts run 8, carriers 3
Turians 39
Asari 20
Salarian 16
Total crew 258,000.
Marine complement 129,000. Add. Ground forces 345,000 excluding Geth.
The Geth being stated as the largest ground force in the galaxy, assume they match stated coalition ground forces 1:1. Ground forces including Geth 561,000.
Greater London has a population of 7.7 million, round it off to 8 for the future. Only a quarter of London's population needs to be huskized to give them a 4:1 advantage, not counting off-planet imports.
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