Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150525234127/@comment-17114085-20150603154707

Zoordovahsil wrote: (@Harry, I'm sorry but that is waaaaaay too low. You can't possibly believe that a place as big as Skyrim only has 900 soldiers, realistically speaking. You can make a comparison using the several calculations made on several different threads on the net where people estimate the size of the province and its population and 900 would be ridiculously small. Now I can understand you wanting to keep low numbers because they are less of a headache, but I still think that 100 strong is way too small.)

"Prince Rob, it's a pleasure.", Farraud bowed in respect, "I'm Captain Farraud, one of the Queen's most trusted fleet captains." (It doesn't have 900 soldiers. It has 1000 Stormcloaks + all the holds guards. 1000 is just the relative number of soldiers each province's standing armies. Keep in mind that there is also a Legion base in each of the provinces which hold another 300 soldiers. There is also the provinces' guards, which are more or less the same amount of men as the soldiers. So in total each province has around 2300 men currently, which is in peaceful times. During actual wars they would have citizens volunteering, they would draft others and then there are also mercenaries. So each province could easily have more than 3000 soldiers during wars.

It isn't because of the low numbers giving less of a headache, it is jut because in the BMC the world isn't that much larger than Skyrim. This is because I don't want to have too many timeskips due to travelling. Realistically it would take many months to cross all of High Rock, and weeks to get from one city to another. In this is takes only a few days to get from one city to another and about a week or so to cross the whole province. Marching armies obviously takes longer than riding a horse or a carriage to another city, as most soldiers would have to walk, which brings the whole army's pace down.

As for population is isn't much larger than Skyrim either. For example the entire population of Windhelm in Skyrim was 54 people + 10 or so guards. In this it would be in the hundreds, certainly less than 1000. All of Eastmarch would then have 1500 or so citizens and so all of Skyrim would have about 13500 citizens. Realistically that'd be less than what a large city like Windhelm would have, as in lore Daggerfall is stated as having over 110000 citizens. Which is not the case here, as I did not wish to enlarge the world to realistic proportions since it would make the whole RP have to take place over several years.)

"So you are the emissary she mentioned. Welcome to Jehanna." Rob said turned to face the man. "My army should be ready by the end of the week, I'll be expecting Farrun's army to be ready then as well. The Duke of Cloud Spring is marching his forces here as we speak, and should arrive tomorrow. The Lord of Karthgran Vale is the farthest one away and will take longer to get here."

"Speaking of Lords. Lady Marthe Ondre has requested to meet with you. Her forces arrived earlier today and are already making camp outside the city." Dame Ygfa said.

"Bring her here. With the emissary from Farrun here we can start discussing the strategy we will be employing." Rob ordered.

Ygfa nodded and then left to fetch the Lady of Dunlain Falls.