How big is a division?

[zute]

I apologize for another lame-ass question, but in the story I'm writing now this actually has relevance. It's the difference between paranoia and reasonable concern.

When you rescue Riordan he tells you that Loghain had turned away 200 Grey Wardens and two dozen divisions of cavalry.  When I looked up division sizes I got utterly enormous numbers like 10,000 for single light infantry division, in the modern army. I'm sure that must be vastly larger than in middle ages terms.

Does anyone have a feel for how many actually people that would be? 

My thanks!

Zute

Comments

[niniane]

Oh, yeah, I totally agree that this wasn't the reason (seeing as it wasn't in the game yet), but the two men quite obviously did not see eye to eye, and neutralizing Eamon made a lot of sense from Loghain's POV.

...it's one of the few things that I'm totally in his camp over. Like, the guy was a problem. Tough luck that he had to be neutralized for a while. I mean, better to risk killing him than to risk a war with him and destroy many.