Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5262726-20150722204556/@comment-24696651-20150801222150

Use a small amount of the levied grain to help feed the poor, with the rest being stored for an emergency.

Once a mine has been established there, set up a small garrison. Allow the other soldiers to take leave, however, request that they report for orders once every week, and perform drills.

Ask them do so. Also request access to the enhanced crossbow blueprints which I recovered, to help root out Daedra worship.

Try to work out where, if anywhere, the Stormcloaks are currently engaging Imperial force. Try to ascertain the size of their garrison, relative to my own army.

(First of all, I'm assuming that the number of mercenaries I have stays the same, and that originally, my force was 100% mercs.

Let's say I have 30 mercenaries (the number doesn't matter, it's just as an example.) Originally, my force was just those 30. However, now my force is only 60% mercs. That means that I must have got men that aren't mercenaries. Currently, 40% of my force is not mercenaries. That means there is a 60:40 ratio between mercenaries and non-mercenaries. This can be simplified to 30:20. This means that for every 30 mercenaries, there are 20 non-mercenaries. Since I have 30 mercs, I must have 20 non-mercs, giving me a total of 50 men. This represents an increase of two-thirds over my original 30.

Now, lets say the Imperials have 750 men (thís is based on them originally outnumbering me 25:1). I had 30 men, so I was outnumbered 25:1. I now have 50 men, so I'm outnumbered 50:750. If we divide the ratio by 50, it simplifies to 1:15. We do a similar thing with the Stormcloaks and Dominion, leaving me outnumbered 1:6 and 1:18, respectively.)