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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Noir" data-source="post: 1483522" data-attributes="member: 8216">JimAde got it right, atleast that was my original intension. Then the discussion about food blossomed up, partly because I worded my first post in a clumsy way, and I have found it quite interesting and educating hitherto."Several hundred thousands of soldiers (with families)" seem to be a bit over the top appearently. What is important to think about is the fact that it is a fortress and therefore not fully manned unless it is times of war. This means that the fortress should be able to for a while house vast amounts of soldiers, but in no way at all times. Extremely large storages of food will exist within the fortress for these times and as Wolffenjugend pointed out earlier, there is no way to come up with a "realistic" solution to this. Magic is a prerequisite for the whole thing to be possible.Thank you cool hand luke for your input, it is interesting to learn about how this would actually work in the real world. I am sorry to say that, we, in our gaming group, lack the knowledge to actually include such high detail whether the mountain, which in our case actually has an underground river, has a limestone embeddment (or even the qualities of limestone) or not.And to finish this post up, a question for you all:How big were the greatest fortresses of the mediaeval age, how were they supplied with food/water and how did they take care of waste disposal?</blockquote>