Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Yes. You can home brew your game to be different or use a setting like Eberron that has home brewed it for you. Sure.
Zardnaar
Legend
That's a very big leap of logic. From the ranks could be a couple of thousand.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
A few thousand is all you need for a great war is it?
Zardnaar
Legend
Depends on the time frame. Viking army was a few thousand,.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
They engaged in raids, but lost when they met real armies. The big armies that could engage in great wars would be the Roman Legions and such.
Zardnaar
Legend
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
England at that time was incapable of forming a decent sized army. When it could, it defeated that army. The legions, though, would have taken that "great" army, which is misnamed, and eaten it for a morning snack.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Doesn't make 2000 great, though. You can see great armies that number in 10's and hundreds of thousands in the middle ages and earlier.
China had a 12,000 man army in 2000BC. Egypt an army of 100,000 in 1250BC. Persia had 500,000 in 600BC. 2000 was pocket change.
Zardnaar
Legend
Book just says from the ranks. You can have a smallish standing army and still recruit from the ranks.
You can often accomplish a lot with relatively few men.
Hasting. About 5000 on each side, William takes England.
Arabs pushing out of Arabia. Maybe had as few as 13000 men initially.
A few thousand raiders out if Afghanistan establish the Murghal Empire.
I think our army is around 2000, in WW2 we mobilised 100k. You can still go through the ranks at 2000.
They could still fight as mercs in great wars. It's independent of their numbers. The Swiss for example not many if them still fought in great wars.
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