Clone Army Structure

flare wrote:No, no, no! We ned a good looking jedi, I mean like has a cool lightsaber, cool outfit, and a cool alein how about Wioslea ( ) I think that guy looks good.

667thLegion wrote:

flare wrote:No, no, no! We ned a good looking jedi, I mean like has a cool lightsaber, cool outfit, and a cool alein how about Wioslea ( ) I think that guy looks good.

That guy's so hidious he could scare the droids to death!

jthom375 wrote:cool but how do i make a clone?

Admin - Work on your punctuation and capitalization, and be on topic.

Daemon wrote:Thanks! I never realised how big the Grand Army was!

Thunder-blade wrote:I think Catsie once pointed in the Cbox a Wookiee article here, look near the bottom. They had more than 3 Million because in AotC Lama Su told Obi-wan 3 Million "units", but that could mean squadrons or battalions...

"Kamino still has about a million or more clone troopers in various stages of preparation…"
―Obi-Wan Kenobi[src]
One last solution is to return to the vague term "unit" which Lama Su mentioned. If a "unit" were to be referring to one of the battalions of 576 troopers (seen on Coruscant), then 200,000 of these would render 115,200,000 clones and the 1,000,000 others spoken of as 576,000,000. This grand total of 691,200,000 would make be far more suitable for the core of a galactic army.

However, the actual number of clone soldiers which can be seen standing in each formation at the end of Attack of the Clones amounts to 624 (26 per column and 24 per row), showing a disparity with the numbers presented in the Guide to the Grand Army. If a unit indeed amounts to one battalion, this would mean that the grand total of clones was 1,280,000,000, considering the 3 million units that many sources state, and counting a unit as a batallion of 576 clones.

Furthermore, it it should be noted that all planetary and judicial forces loyal to the Republic were folded into the Grand Army, allowing the Republic, which enjoyed a large population advantage over the CIS to make up for the number of battle droids with possibly hundreds of trillions of organic, non-clone soldiers. However, conscription of civilians is implied to have not taken place in a statement by Chancellor Palpatine, due to potential political consequences. [5]. Though this implication is contradicted in the New Essential Chronology by the following statement:

"Conscription, however, was a necessary reality. Countless beings of every species became draftees into the Grand Army of the Republic."
―Daniel Wallace[src]
Thus is it is most likely that the Grand Army was combination of clones, draftees, and troops from local planetary armies.

In addition, the Confederate battleship Malevolence was known to have made at least fourteen attacks, of which at least two of which occurred against three ship task forces.[6] Assuming that the other twelve were assaults on single ships, which seems unlikely, and that the ships were Venator Star Destroyers, which would fit with their prominence in this era and the relative importance of the Malevolence, there must have been at least 126,000 clone casualties in crews alone. If these vessels were fully loaded, the casualty count rises to 180000, over a tenth of the supposed number of combat ready clones. As the chief concern over the Malevolence was its ability to destroy the ships without any indication of its nature [7] and not the casualties, this would seem to indicate a much larger clone army than stated in certain sources.

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