Supposedly there have been 2 BILLION plus orders input on this site. I really have a hard time believing that:

There are 4340 completed games and 371 active games at the time of this writing. The maximum number of orders each turn is 34. Let’s say that every single turn had a retreat phase with 10 units retreating/disbanding and let's say every single fall there are 15 build orders. Let’s also assume that each game goes until 1915.

That means in the 30 turns of the game there would be 1020 orders, 300 retreats/disbands, and 225 builds. That’s a grand total of 1545 orders per game.

4711 games times 1545 orders equals 7,278,495 orders.

Now maybe some of the data is no longer visible and there are games on the system that I don’t know about. I’ve only been on the site for 3 months. This site has only been around for a little over a year, right? Let’s call it two years to be safe. And if there were this many orders in every other three-month period that I don’t know about then I need to multiply my figure by 8 to find the 2-year grand total of orders.

7,278,495 time 8 equals 58,227,960 orders.

Hmmm…still not there. Ok, maybe each BOX counts as a separate order so that North Sea convoy from Edinburgh to Norway really counts as three orders instead of one? I’ll multiply my result by three just to be safe.

58,227,960 times 3 equals 174,683,880.

Obviously, many of the estimates I made were grossly exaggerated so, no, I don’t believe there have been 2 billion orders input. However, I think it would really be cool if there had been so I’d like to know how it is possible that there have really been that many orders.

Anybody know?