OYW has highest MS to ship numbers and highest ship numbers.Mafty wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:11 pm Really when you look at it the scale of many UC wars should be relatively the same. They often involve a faction fighting against the Earth Government, over a period of weeks or months across several battlegrounds. They are often somewhat evenly match in terms of soldiers, if not technology. For instance Zeon was One Side compromised of enough soldiers to fight against the entire Earth Federation. Likewise AEUG and Karaba managed to amass enough force in a combination of former Federation and Zeon, to go up against the Titans and the Greater Earth Federation itself. Even many resistance movements manage to amass plenty of soldiers and equipment against the EF(for example the Second and Fourth Neo Zeon movements). It reaches the point that by UC 153 we have another full Side (Side 2 in this case) against the League Militarie and Federation. You'd actually think controlling Earth, the Moon and many Space Colonies would give the Earth Federation bigger numbers that a particular Side, however it is shown that the Federation simply declines into irrelevance in the later years, with less resources they are willing to allocate to threats.
Once after that, all anime are only small conflicts compared to OYW.(0083 is the only one with similar ship numbers but mostly aren't in combat but destroyed under the blast of GP02A's atomic bazooka.)
We only see similar on screen fleets/MS because it focused on the big battles.