User blog comment:Legionwrex/I figured out how many Reapers there are!/@comment-4950455-20120801013113/@comment-4950455-20120801020659

The big one that stands out to me is the Battle of Earth - there's clearly a lot more ships in the allied fleet than there are Reapers visible. Admittedly, this is pretty much the entirety of the allies against only a single (though large) concentration of Reapers, but I definitely got a picture of rough numerical equality between both sides. Had there really been 18,000 Reapers - or really, more like 180,000 when we factor Destroyers in - the war would never have lasted nearly as long as it did.