NationStates Jolt Archive

Ooc: What the title says

Everyone and no-one. It depends on what people agree on in an RP. But common sense would dictate that nations RP'd as small would have smaller armies than nations RP'd as enormous (which is why I RP with a nation of about 330 million).

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If your army is ten million strong and on the other side of the world, while mine is ten hundred strong and poised for success, all the size in the world will do you no good.

Check the World rankings next time Largest defense forces per capita comes around and you will have your answer.

That is still incorrect TPM, you could have one billion armed soldiers with little to no experience, ammunition, and equipment and a small force of maybe one hundred million could defeat them if they had enough ammunition, equipment, and experience

Check the World rankings next time Largest defense forces per capita comes around and you will have your answer.


That's only assuming that your opponent bothers with the NS stuff to base their nation off (unlike me!)

Yea, Alfegos just loads them all up on Doomsday airships, drives them right up to your leader's house, before stopping by the next morning for tea.

That is still incorrect TPM, you could have one billion armed soldiers with little to no experience, ammunition, and equipment and a small force of maybe one hundred million could defeat them if they had enough ammunition, equipment, and experience

Um the question was biggest, not best.

A gorilla force has a conscription force as large as its will. Ex: North Vietnam. Therefore a nation that funds a paramilitary branch with no limit on numbers has the largest force.

That is easy to answer:

Automagfreek, if referring to ground forces

Questers, if referring to naval forces

What about air forces?

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There are nations that are larger than AMF, they dont rp on II though because of threads like this (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=584132).

I personally have 90 million active duty troops, below 1% of my population

In total I have 126 million counting reserves which is just over 2%

Then there is the Gaurd De Reich and Guard De Korps

GDR-Militia, paramilitary, privately funded training

GDK-Emperor's personally army and elite units.

That and considering all citizens regardless of sex do 10 months to 4 years of conscripted service, so really all of my citizenry would have some basic skills beneficial in combat

Usually its 1-2 years on active duty and 2 years in a reserve status for conscripts

I have 152million people living in my nation so if I have 5% how many do I have?

152,000,000 * .05 = 7,600,000

Ideally, most of those would be reserves or conscripts. I think the recommended max for active troops is 25% of your total armed forces.

if you mean how many people are in your military if its 5% of your population then it's 7,600,000

Draftroom did a thread about this awhile ago. It might even still be there. I believe Questers won for both largest and best navy (Isselmere-Nieland and someone else were shortly behind), while I don't recall who had the largest army. AMF's a good guess. (I'm pretty sure Doom had the best army, if not the largest.) As for air force..... uh, Omz222 maybe? Or Clan Smoke Jaguar? They're both long gone though. I don't know who has the largest air force right now, and still RPs enough to display it.

I'm sure, however, that old-timers such as Siri, Sunset, Melkor, and Ctan have absolutely massive militaries sufficiently large to take on everyone in this forum at the same time, but don't use them very much because war RPs get boring after awhile, and are hard to coordinate.

In short, I have no idea. Everyone around here wanks sufficiently that it's hard to tell who does it the most. I know it's not me and my 300 million population. :P

no the 25% thing is in regards to front line troops IE the people that do the most fighting, since in reaility the number of support troops is far greater than the number of Infantry type personnel.

also 5% of your pop in the military is close to a max, and usally only for wartime

Peacetime you'd want the % to be lower so more people would be working and keeping the economy a float.

In response to the OP:

Neo-Menkanta. Full Stop.

They never stipulated MT vs FT, after all.

That is easy to answer:

Automagfreek, if referring to ground forces

Questers, if referring to naval forces

I haven't checked recently, but I believe I have a lot more tanks then AMF. Indeed, more then anyone else I know of. By a huge factor.

Most airships here... trumped!

Doomingsland, Automagfreek, Questers, Praetonia, Aequatio, Macabees, Dostanuot Loj, Lyras, ZMI, Isselmere, various other Gholgothic/Havenic nations etc. Its not really possible to figure who has biggest/strongest/whatever armed forces.

Yes it is, it all depends on what your pop is and how many men you have, but that is true, anyone who says so is godmodding.