Talk:Battle of Heraclea/@comment-209.93.134.56-20180817172535

The figures given for the armies come from a wargaming website by Jeff Jonas, are entirely speculative and have no basis in fact. Ask Jeff Jonas where he got them from and he will doubtless admit they were contrived. The truth is we do not have any documentary evidence from a historical source that gives any figures for the armies present and it is therefore irresponsible to present pure estimates on public websites as historical fact. However, I will make the point that what scant documentary evidence we do have seems to mention only one Roman consul being present on the battlefield and this points to one consular army. It is therefore more likely that the estimates should be rounded down to about 25,000 for each army, assuming Pyrrhus had most of his field army with him.