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<blockquote data-quote="Chimera" data-source="post: 2342018" data-attributes="member: 2002">As SWBAxter says, it depends on the society.&nbsp; Almost every adult male in a nomadic warrior society will be available for combat.&nbsp; Everyone else will be tagging along.&nbsp; Look back and the &quot;barbarian&quot; invasions of the Roman Empire and similar events.&nbsp; Entire tribes moved in enmasse.The other side is the degree of threat.&nbsp; During WWII, the Finns had 10% of their population under arms to repel the Soviets.&nbsp; At the same time, the military of the USA reached almost 14 million strong at a time when the population was 150 million, almost as high as the Finns.&nbsp; Of course, most of those were not front-line combatants.Then too, there is a big difference between &quot;standing army&quot; and warfare capacity.&nbsp; Most nations maintained only a small standing army and filled it with conscripts and mercenaries in time of need.In a D&amp;D world with multiple threats and things like Adventurers running around, it seems that a nation of one million could easily muster an army of 20-50,000 soldiers within a period of several months.&nbsp; This is not unreasonable or even difficult.&nbsp; Just remember that this would not be kept in one block, because that one block can't be everywhere.&nbsp; It would be organized into Legions, Divisions, Battalions, etc and scattered all across the front.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chimera, post: 2342018, member: 2002"] As [b]SWBAxter[/b] says, it depends on the society. Almost every adult male in a nomadic warrior society will be available for combat. Everyone else will be tagging along. Look back and the "barbarian" invasions of the Roman Empire and similar events. Entire tribes moved in enmasse. The other side is the degree of threat. During WWII, the Finns had 10% of their population under arms to repel the Soviets. At the same time, the military of the USA reached almost 14 million strong at a time when the population was 150 million, almost as high as the Finns. Of course, most of those were not front-line combatants. Then too, there is a big difference between "standing army" and warfare capacity. Most nations maintained only a small standing army and filled it with conscripts and mercenaries in time of need. In a D&D world with multiple threats and things like Adventurers running around, it seems that a nation of one million could easily muster an army of 20-50,000 soldiers within a period of several months. This is not unreasonable or even difficult. Just remember that this would not be kept in one block, because that one block can't be everywhere. It would be organized into Legions, Divisions, Battalions, etc and scattered all across the front. [/QUOTE]

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