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I've just bought myself a book about battles of world war II. One thing that got my attention was battle of Iwo Jima. It's an island south of Japan, it covers a total area of 21 km^2. What surprised me is that the garrison of this island consisted of 20'000 men. The USMC invaded them with 70'000 soldiers. In PR we have got Operation Barracuda (about 2 km^2), with about 200 soldiers guarding the island only (thats max if we count the respawns as reinforcements). I know that in modern times you're probably using fewer people in the fight, but my question is: which maps are closest to reality if we're talking about scale of battles, number of soldiers compared to the area of the map?

I think the closest to reality in terms of soldier numbers would be Basrah. You wouldn't get thousands of insurgents tooling up in the city, and it was uncommon to have a large amount of armour or troops going in either.

Yeah I think the insurgent maps are those who come closest to r/l scale battles but in most cases it would probably be more like 100 blufor guys against 32 insurgents if the attack is a planned one of course.

I often see most PR maps with a sotry line of the firts confrontations between forces on those maps, and PR2 will consist of more full blown assaults of the reaction force

Russia vs. Militia are also quite "realistic" as there were/still are little fire fights going on in the forests and some urban areas.
Also Insurgents, Taliban and Hamas as they often fight with few people amonst them.

Ramiel would be the most accurate as it is supposed to be the 1993 battle of Mogadishu where the un had 190 Troops to the militants estimated 2000-4000 troops.