How Many TOTAL Clone Troopers Were Created?

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[RedFiveStarWars]

*Correction: 6.2 Million, not 7.2 Million.

[noobsmith]

The most staggering thing to me is whatever the amount of clones is, there were several times more droids to make up for their (generally) lower quality

[DoomofOlympus]

Technically speaking, every clone trooper is an absolute unit

[richardbarbaros]

The real answer: George Lucas has a poor sense of scale

[night_aviation]

Just imagine being a clone serving in the 481794th clone batallion 💀

[trevorfranks]

No wonder Riyo had a concern of giving the clones human rights. 800 million populating the galaxy deserves to live a life on their own instead of just being a living weapon

[starrelic]

As someone pointed out, a unit could refer to 144 troops in a company if we are to base it off of real life armies, so doing the math, we find that would put the standing count at 28, 800, 000 clones for the first battle of Geonosis and 316, 800, 000 total for the first wave. And would put the total amount of clones made is 1, 036, 800, 000 after the additional five million more units.

Now let’s assume that the Separatists had five droids to one clone, that would mean the CIS had a standing army of around 5, 184, 000, 000 droids ready to fight.

[absoul]

Units mostly likely means battalions because they were 1, 000s of Jedi fighting in the clone wars one we never got to see and they were probably fighting smaller battles just to hold the separatists at bay

[tk-]

The truth is that we have no idea how many clones there were. That is the real point of the line. Clone units can refer from anything from a squad to a battalion to a corps, and Lama Su's vagueness could well have been intentional. Especially when you consider that George approved of the idea that Palpatine had secret fleets of fully crewed warships prepared for the battle of coruscant.

[rs]

If it was changed to “200 million units are ready, with a billion more well on the way” then it would have made much more sense.

[bodabodapasta]

Jango Fett must’ve had the most kids out of anyone in the Galaxy! 😂

[jupiter_feretrius]

interesting thing, in our translation (Russian) Lama Su tells Obi-Wan "200 000 подразделений уже готовы и еще миллион на подходе", the word "подразделение" in this line means unit as a some group of combatants

[iliadnetfear]

I've always taken it as the 6.2 million figure, given a few extra details.

Kamino as a water world, isolated from the majority of the galaxy, would need to house and feed those clones across their cities, which weren't very spacious from what we've been shown and could be a great distance apart across a perpetually waterlogged planet.

In 1 episode of the Clone Wars when the senate was discussing deregulation of the banks and the purchase of more clones, the Banking Clan representative tried leveraging Padme's compliance by mentioning the separatist securing a loan with 25% interest rates for approximately 3 million additional droids, which led to Anno saying, "they'll wipe us out".

Also, battles in Star Wars, even when mentioned to be planet wide campaigns, only show a few dozens to a few hundred clones at a time, suggesting battles are fought for key locations and cities, of which the side holding can declare the planet or a good amount of it as occupied.
This is further suggested with the Clone Wars as the Rishi Moon outpost and the planet orbited by Pantora only held a single Clone outpost each.

A moon, and an Entire planet, both only were utilized to construct one facility each, which would cover a vast distance of space.

This leads me to believe that despite th3 galaxy consisting of Trillions of beings, and planets having billions of sentient lifeforms on them, galaxy spanning conflicts only require a planet to be considered "lost", "occupied", "liberated", or "captured" with the taking of a few of its most populated cities.
Another thing to suggest this is that when planets are under blockade, the ships blockading the planet normally sit right on top of the capital of that world, as despite a planet being entered from every possible direction, it seems the very capital of the planet is considered the main way in, or is just wear the hyperspace lanes will drop people off.

So yeah, I could see an army of only a few million being used in that context, especially when Legends material suggested a larger use of local defense forces to supplement certain battles (example, the Mon Calimari and Gungans fighting alongside clones on Mon Cali or the Wookies fighting with the clones on Kasheyk).

[ScottGrow]

Consider also that the US military has a standing army of 1.4 million, but that only about 7% of that standing military is infantry and less than 20% total is combat specific jobfocus, the rest being support roles like supply, admin, communications, command etc. etc.

The clones would have primarily been combat units, the support roles like admin and logistics being fulfilled limitedly by clones and primarily by other non clone staff of the empire.

[IamWRLRD]

I would love to see a story about the last clone ever made.

[bobbobsled]

Droids had an ungodly amount then lmao

[dominikdejanovicc]

Damn, that's a lot of enslaved child soldiers.

[kipkepkoop]

One thing to keep in mind is the republic also had regular human soldiers and were working with many of the allied planets to put together a larger army, so if the clones are seen as a more elite group of fighters and not the main fighting force these smaller amounts make slightly more sense

[jobt]

Reminder that despite the 03 and 08 animated clone wars the majority of the war was fought between sector/system forces made up of all the species.
Only a small portion was fought between clones and droids.

[michaelscott]

Something else people forget about: Kamino had been producing the clones for the past 10-11 years to get them ready for the war. Who's to say they didnt produce 200, 000 'units' or more _every year_ for that decade, so the number could easily be in the _millions_ without starting to consider what constitutes a 'unit'.