Most players were nothing more than civilians, and nobody had even dreamed about commanding all 170,000 of them to fight in such a large scale battlefield. Forget players, even if someone were to randomly select officers from the armed forces, how many of them would have taken command of so many people before? An entire corp would roughly have somewhere around 60,000 soldiers; 170,000 would mean there were almost three entire corps of troops! Just how were they going to fight this war? Anyone would be left dumbfounded when facing such a question in an MMO.
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