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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OB1" data-source="post: 8815646" data-attributes="member: 6796241">Honestly, this strikes me as being the fault of a studio note.  I'd guess that as written, it wasn't 300 soldiers on horseback charging in to save the day.  Then either when shooting or in post-production, someone at Amazon saw the scene or the storyboards and said "make it bigger!  This battle needs to be huge.  Just like LotR!" and so they went 3x or 4x on the visual effects of the charge, figuring the average viewer wouldn't think about the logistics of it all.  Note I'm not defending the lapse in logic for that scene, I'm just saying it's more likely it came from somewhere other than the writing.  I'd have to rewatch those episodes to see if before and after match up with 3 ships, and only the dramatic battle charge is different.  My sense is there wasn't hundreds of Numenorians in the camp after the battle.And really, logistics are often sent to the wayside in fantasy.  What do all the orcs in Mordor eat and drink every day to stay alive?  It's a barren wasteland.  Does Amazon deliver to Mordor via Nazgul?</blockquote>