You should never twist a tigers tale.[sic] I don't know the definitive answer, but I think I got higher number than that. My reckoning, and I'm bracing myself if I'm wrong. Spoiler 5 soldiers = 10 legs. 25x5 big tigers = 500 legs. 125 x 5 cubs = 2,500 legs. = 3010 legs, plus your own, = 3012 legs in total.
I think it's 3000 plus the soldiers legs and 'your' legs but it's not mentioned how many legs they have. Could be soldier ants for all we know and 'you' could be a millipede. Not that I'm saying you're a millipede.
I think the trick is that the big tigers eat some of teh little tigers, and **** all over the Palace.
Well fancy Palace getting a penalty against us and us being turned down a stonewaller. What an enormous and entirely unpredictable shock that is.