This list of formation types is designed to help alpha users start relating real life ground formations with those used for game play. The list indicates only very rudimentary averages, and players should remember that real life units varied quite a lot in both quality and size. So far, only some of the more common infantry types have been calculated. To be continued for more cavalry, elephants and chariots.

Elephant Note: Most war elephants used during this period were either Asian elephants, or even smaller North African forest elephants (Atlas Elephants), with the later likely being the type most commonly used by Carthage and now extinct. None of these types were the size of today's African savanna elephants. There was also a Syrian elephant, which was a larger sub-species of Asian elephant, but those were also run to extinction - they were apparently exported and used heavily for war.